The Elche Chronicle
Match21 Nov 2026
Elche end the wait against Celta
It had gone 10 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Elche
Marc Bernal 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.
Match21 Nov 2026
Elche find a way past Celta
Celta made Elche work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad23 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Elche
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Marc Aguado was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Ninety minutes of Germán Valera at his very best
Marked 8.05. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Elche.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Gastón Arraya stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Gastón Arraya and Elche agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad23 Nov 2026
6 new faces, and Elche 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 dugout23 Nov 2026
Antonio Delgado has his say
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Antonio Delgado on a 2‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Marc Bernal knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Marc Bernal trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
In brief
- The dugout Tobías Pantoja gets it from the manager
- The dugout Somebody else is better right now than Maximiliano Rodríguez
- Player ratings Nothing got past Rubén Peña