Marked for Leandro Suhr
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad31 Aug 2026
6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Match29 Aug 2026
4 matches without a win for Boston River
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Boston River are no longer polite ones.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Leandro Suhr and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match29 Aug 2026
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Yair González was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.28. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Squad31 Aug 2026
100 times in these colours, in all weathers and under four or five different managers. That kind of service is quietly disappearing from the game.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Boston River
15 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
Bruno Barja gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
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Steady
Market24 Aug 2026
Juan Acosta hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Boston River can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Leandro Suhr beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 26. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Market24 Aug 2026
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Leo Suárez wants continental football; whether Boston River can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Juan Acosta in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Boston River this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Boston River training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Leo Suárez is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Facundo Guichón
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Match22 Aug 2026
0‑1 to Wanderers, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad24 Aug 2026
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Boston River are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Maximiliano Barrios left the room before anybody could ask which.
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Steady
Match15 Aug 2026
Racing ended it 0‑2. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.86 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Leandro Suhr in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Boston River this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match12 Aug 2026
Nicolás Siri among the goals in a wild afternoon
7 goals in one match, Nicolás Siri on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Boston River and Racing.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Boston River training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Leo Suárez is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Montevideo City Torque will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Tomás Shaw has pre-agreed a move to Boston River, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Nicolás Siri has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Marcelo Tabárez, and the manager let it.
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Triumph
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.17 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Leandro Suhr and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match8 Aug 2026
It finished 3‑2, and it was Leo Suárez’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Boston River.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Agustín Aguirre commits to Boston River for another 4 years.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Bruno Centeno has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Boston River have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Diego Perez has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Gonzalo Pereira is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Diego Bentancur has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Felipe Ugarte has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.