Atletico Mineiro U17 beat Atletico Goianiense U17 5-0 in the Brazil U17 Regular Season on Friday. The match took place on September 5th, 2026, and the home side made no mistake in front of their own supporters. Three points from a game against the bottom side was always going to feel like a win, but this went beyond that.
By then the gap between these two clubs had become almost comical. Atletico Mineiro sit eighth with 23 points from 15 games — six wins, five draws, four losses. Atletico Goianiense occupy 20th place with exactly zero points from 15 matches. They have not won a single game this season. Not one.
The home side came into this with momentum, and here's the thing: they kept it. Their last five games read 2-1, 6-1, 3-0, 2-1, and 0-0. Two wins, two draws, and a win on Tuesday against Bahia U17. They can raise the tempo when they need to, and against a side that has lost 15 straight, that ability showed clearly.
To be fair, Atletico Goianiense's recent form tells you everything you need to know before kickoff. They lost 3-5 to Vasco, then went to Flamengo and took seven goals, followed by a 0-1 defeat to Sao Paulo. Before that came a 3-5 loss to Juventude and a 0-6 hammering from RB Bragantino. Fifteen games, fifteen losses. That is not a team finding its feet.
The result leaves Atletico Mineiro U17 with a comfortable position in the table and Atletico Goianiense U17 still searching for their first point of the campaign. The scoreline says 5-0, but the story is written in the standings — one side building something, the other simply surviving.