The Fluminense Post
Match12 Aug 2026
Fluminense march on in the cup
America Mineiro are out and Fluminense go through, 3‑1 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
A brace, and John Kennedy takes the afternoon — 9.06
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. John Kennedy provided it, and the 9.06 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Vitor Eudes keeps Fluminense in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Hulk, 40, rolls back the years — 7.94
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.94 at 40, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Fluminense
Thiago Silva 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Jefferson Savarino falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Kevin Serna runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
Julián Millán 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.
Match15 Aug 2026
Two points walk out of the ground
Level with 95 minutes on the clock, after an afternoon Fluminense had all but put away. Flamengo will call it a point earned; the home dressing room will call it two given away, and both of them are right.
In brief
- The dugout Hulk has become a man the manager trusts
- Match Fluminense share the spoils with Flamengo
- The dugout Leonardo Neves on the point