12 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
A brace, and Bruno Santos takes the afternoon — 8.82
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Bruno Santos provided it, and the 8.82 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
1 for Lucas Marques, marked 7.56, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Wallace 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.
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.
3 straight away victories. Sides that win away are usually sides that can defend and can counter, and the table has begun to reflect what those journeys have earned.
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Londrina is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
10 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
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.
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Yuri Lima will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Londrina the goodbyes have quietly begun.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Londrina this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words at Londrina training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Wallace 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.
Something was said to Yago Lincoln and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
Nobody at Londrina will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Figueirense in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 10 matches without defeat is a foundation Londrina did not have in the autumn.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Up for the corner, and Lucas Marques delivers — 7.87
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Lucas Marques scored, was marked 7.87, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Londrina is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Wallace 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Iago Teles 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.
There were 89 minutes on the clock and Ypiranga had all but banked the point. Football rarely reads the room, and Londrina did not stop to explain themselves.
Two goals and a mark of 8.81 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Successful dribbles: 25. 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.
Paulinho Moccelin 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.
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Bruno Santos. 3‑2 against Ypiranga, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
9 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Wallace was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
He is 21 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
In brief
The dugoutThe manager makes an example of Kozlinski
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 9.41 at 37, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Murilo Chico will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Londrina the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Wallace was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
In brief
Looking aheadThe big one: São Bernardo come into view
17 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Londrina lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Londrina is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Iago Teles 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.
Náutico held the lead for 3 minutes, which is not long enough to enjoy it. Londrina answered before the celebration had properly finished, and the shape of the afternoon changed with it.
24 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Londrina lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Rafael Soares will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Londrina the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Paulinho Moccelin 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.
At 19 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at Londrina training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Wallace 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.
Something was said to Jotta and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
31 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Londrina lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 10 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Paulinho Moccelin 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.
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.
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 18 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Successful dribbles: 14. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Guilherme Souza was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Londrina dressing room was either.
26 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Londrina lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. André Luiz scored, was marked 7.85, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Murilo Chico has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Londrina is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Londrina this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Murilo Chico is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at Londrina training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Giovanni Pavani 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.
33 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Londrina lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Londrina this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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.
Marked 8.09 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Guilherme Souza, on a 2‑1 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Iago Teles’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Londrina needing him to play as if none of it matters.
In brief
The dugoutYago Lincoln knocks on the manager’s door
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Gilberto provided it, and the 9.01 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Yuri Lima will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Londrina the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Paulinho Moccelin 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Londrina training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Iago Teles 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.
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Gilberto. 2‑0 against Brusque, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad14 Sep 2026
15 new faces, and Londrina are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Guilherme Souza kept it short after the 2‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
Paulinho Moccelin 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.
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.
The award is a small thing with a heavy meaning: for four weeks nobody in this division did his job better. Londrina have the trophy on a shelf and the player in the side.
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Caio Rafael is on it.
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Brusque in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Gilberto provided it, and the 8.92 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
The offer from Sabail for André Dhominique was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Daniel Bolt has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Londrina training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Giovanni Pavani 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.
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Giovanni Pavani has, at Londrina, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Giovanni Pavani was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Londrina this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
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.
At 37 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 9.07 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Londrina they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Ponte Preta will want this one forgotten quickly: 3‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Londrina were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
At 37 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 9.82 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Crysthyan had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
1 for Lucas Marques, marked 7.37, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Crysthyan did not need any: 8.37, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
6 goals in one match, Crysthyan on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Londrina and CSA.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Iago Teles was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Crysthyan 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.
100 games in this shirt, through managers and relegations and everything else. Service like it is disappearing from the game and the crowd knows what it is watching.