Marked for Hermes Rodríguez
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Match19 Aug 2026
Zamora out of the cup
Deportivo La Guaira ended it 2‑3. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Match19 Aug 2026
Zamora throw away a 2-goal lead
2 in front and in complete control, and it finished with Deportivo La Guaira the happier side. There is no version of this afternoon that Zamora will enjoy reviewing.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A one-man rearguard from Moisés Gallo
There were 8 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 19 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 30. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.39 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
In brief
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Squad
Words at Zamora training over how hard people work
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Raudy Guerrero in a row with a teammate
Back issues
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Triumph
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 35. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match12 Aug 2026
Zamora march on in the cup
Estudiantes de Caracas are out and Zamora go through, 7‑2 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A fracture rules Hermes Rodríguez out for 27 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Zamora will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.84, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.26 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
No sign of nerves from Roberth Patiño at 21 — 8.04
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Roberth Patiño did not need any: 8.04, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Match15 Aug 2026
Zamora make it 4 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Zamora have 4 straight wins of it.
Squad17 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Zamora this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match12 Aug 2026
9 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Zamora and Estudiantes de Caracas in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
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Triumph
Squad10 Aug 2026
A fracture rules Hermes Rodríguez out for 35 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Zamora will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad10 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Zamora this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Carlos Lujano 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.
Match8 Aug 2026
A 2‑1 win over Deportivo Lara, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Ninety minutes of Richard Celis at his very best
Marked 8.27. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Zamora.
Market10 Aug 2026
24 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
Squad10 Aug 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Carlos Lujano's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
There was one mistake and it ended in the net. Defenders are judged on the worst thing they did rather than on the eighty-nine minutes either side of it, which is unfair and is also the job.