Marked for Mateo Coronel
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Steady
Squad5 Oct 2026
Diego Reyes 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Rolando Flores is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Queretaro training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Michael Carcelén 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.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Shots: 10. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Ali Ávila gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 15 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Match3 Oct 2026
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Tijuana defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
Market5 Oct 2026
Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Pablo Cornejo leaves Queretaro the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.
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Uneasy
Match26 Sep 2026
It is a specific kind of quiet, a ground watching a winning position dissolve. Belgrano kept coming because nothing stopped them, and Atlético Tucumán will be asked about the last half hour all week.
Match28 Sep 2026
8 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match26 Sep 2026
No end in sight to Atlético Tucumán's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Atlético Tucumán has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Leandro Díaz in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Atlético Tucumán this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Ezequiel Ham 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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
A performance of 8.32 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes of Alexis Segovia at his very best
Marked 8.22. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Atlético Tucumán.
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Crisis
Market28 Sep 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Queretaro, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 18 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market28 Sep 2026
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Lucas Rodríguez wants continental football; whether Queretaro can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Diego Reyes in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Queretaro this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Juan Cázares 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
Michael Carcelén 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.
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Upbeat
Squad21 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Emilio Albarran out for 26 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Queretaro will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Age has not caught Diego Reyes yet — 8.53
At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.53 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad21 Sep 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 Queretaro this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Rodrigo Canseco is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Match19 Sep 2026
A 2‑1 win over Monterrey, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes of Carlo Adriano at his very best
Marked 8.82. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Queretaro.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Magno Cruz, and the manager let it.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
The one thing Mateo Coronel could not do
Shots: 6, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.
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Crisis
Player ratings14 Sep 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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
A first appearance Gastón Nazar will want to forget — 5.76
Everybody's debut is one of two stories and this was the other one. 5.76, and the only consolation available is that nobody's career has ever been decided by ninety minutes in a shirt he had just been given.
Squad14 Sep 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 Atlético Tucumán this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Match12 Sep 2026
0‑1 to River Plate, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Market14 Sep 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Squad14 Sep 2026
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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Tomás Durso 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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Marked 4.44, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.
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Upbeat
Squad14 Sep 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Queretaro may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Match12 Sep 2026
There were 88 minutes on the clock and Pumas UNAM had all but banked the point. Football rarely reads the room, and Queretaro did not stop to explain themselves.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
A brace, and Mateo Coronel takes the afternoon — 8.52
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Mateo Coronel provided it, and the 8.52 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Diego Reyes in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Queretaro this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Michael Carcelén 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
A 2‑1 win over Pumas UNAM, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
The terraces14 Sep 2026
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Daniel Parra and Queretaro agree another 3 years.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
The one thing Jhojan Julio could not do
Shots: 6, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.
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Steady
Market7 Sep 2026
Luis Villegas hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Queretaro can pretend not to have heard.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Diego Reyes 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.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Defensive actions: 22, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Queretaro training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Michael Carcelén 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.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Iván Pérez
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Shots: 6, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Diego Reyes
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Diego Reyes has come out of that comparison in the side, and Queretaro have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
15 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
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Upbeat
Squad31 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market31 Aug 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Queretaro, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Diego Reyes in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Queretaro this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market31 Aug 2026
Business is business: Jaime Gómez goes
Guadalajara paid $510.0K and Queretaro took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Match29 Aug 2026
Atlas left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Queretaro training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bernardo Parra 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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Shots: 9, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.
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Upbeat
Match22 Aug 2026
Queretaro throw away a 2-goal lead
2 in front and in complete control, and it finished with Santos Laguna the happier side. There is no version of this afternoon that Queretaro will enjoy reviewing.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Diego Reyes, 33, rolls back the years — 8.33
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.33 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Market24 Aug 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Queretaro training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Diego Reyes 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Michael Carcelén, and the manager let it.
Squad24 Aug 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Lucas Rodríguez'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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Bless Ege in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Queretaro this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match22 Aug 2026
A 2‑2 draw with Santos Laguna leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
The one thing Mateo Coronel could not do
Shots: 7, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.
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Crisis
Squad17 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Luciano García
30 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Atlético Tucumán lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market17 Aug 2026
The offer from Sparta Prague for Luis Ingolotti 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Leandro Díaz in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Atlético Tucumán this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tomás Durso 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Match15 Aug 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Shots: 4, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.
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Triumph
Match15 Aug 2026
6‑0, and Mateo Coronel took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Queretaro tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Squad17 Aug 2026
3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
A brace, and Lucas Rodríguez takes the afternoon — 8.36
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Lucas Rodríguez provided it, and the 8.36 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Market17 Aug 2026
Guadalajara come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Queretaro did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market17 Aug 2026
Business is business: Lucas Abascia goes
Tigres paid $3.1M and Queretaro took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Match15 Aug 2026
Queretaro cannot stop winning
3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Diego Reyes in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Queretaro this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match15 Aug 2026
6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Queretaro and Veracruz in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
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Triumph
Market10 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Age has not caught Diego Reyes yet — 8.41
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.41 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Market10 Aug 2026
Oviedo pay $2.1M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Market10 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Tigres have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Lucas Abascia. The answer from Queretaro has not changed — yet.
Market10 Aug 2026
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Lucas Rodríguez wants continental football; whether Queretaro can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Diego Reyes in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Queretaro this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Lucas Abascia and Queretaro agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Match8 Aug 2026
Three points for Queretaro, 2‑1 the final word against Club America in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
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Triumph
Market3 Aug 2026
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Fernando Valenzuela wants continental football; whether Queretaro can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Fernando Valenzuela commits to Queretaro for another 4 years.
Squad3 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 Queretaro this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Queretaro training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Diego Reyes 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mateo Coronel, and the manager let it.
Market3 Aug 2026
The phone has started ringing about José Hernández again, and this time the name on the line is Oviedo. Queretaro are listening politely and promising nothing.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Defensive actions: 20, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Match1 Aug 2026
It finished 1‑0, and it was Fernando Valenzuela’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Queretaro.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
A performance of 8.41 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.