The Cerro Porteno Courier
Squad28 May 2035
Kasper Høgh damages knee ligaments — 103 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 103 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Player ratings28 May 2035
Both of them Tomás O'Connor's — 9.04
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.04, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Market28 May 2035
Thiago Lauro is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Cerro Porteno is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Match26 May 2035
Nobody wants to play Cerro Porteno right now
6 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Squad28 May 2035
Ryan Alebiosu says Cerro Porteno went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Player ratings28 May 2035
Sebastian Gomez, 33, rolls back the years — 8.63
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.63 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad28 May 2035
Tempers go at Cerro Porteno
Kasper Høgh was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad28 May 2035
Tomás O'Connor is in the form of his life
A season average of 7.46 with 12 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Market28 May 2035
Cerro Porteno may not be able to give Édier Ocampo what he wants
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Édier Ocampo wants continental football; whether Cerro Porteno can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
In brief
- Match Cerro Porteno get the job done against Libertad
- Player ratings Valentín Carboni in the eights
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Nilson Angulo