The Millonarios Gazette
Squad5 Oct 2026
The knee: Javier Burrai out for 86 days
86 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Millonarios lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Darwin Quintero scores twice — 8.26
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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Sebastián Mosquera is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Match4 Oct 2026
Millonarios find a way past America de Cali
America de Cali made Millonarios work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Millonarios
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Danovis Banguero was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Ninety minutes of Andrey Estupiñán at his very best
Marked 8.12. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Millonarios.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Juan Carlos Pereira is no longer first choice
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Juan Carlos Pereira has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
Alfredo Hurtado: “That is the standard”
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 3‑1, already talking about the next one.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
Sebastián del Castillo is still paying for one afternoon at Millonarios
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
In brief
- Player ratings The one thing Leonardo Castro could not do
- The dugout No place in the plan for Stiven Vega
- The dugout When it matters, Carlos Sarabia plays