The Albacete Herald
Match16 Sep 2026
Cup progress for Albacete
A 2‑1 win over Oviedo, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Arda Güler, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 8.10
A mark of 8.10 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Antonio Puertas was unplayable
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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Antonio Puertas 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 Albacete this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces21 Sep 2026
One of their own: Jonathan Gómez
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.
Match19 Sep 2026
Albacete rescue it on 94 minutes
Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 94. Málaga had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Sebastián D'Angelo 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
Higinio rescues a point for Albacete
It needed Higinio to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Málaga, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Mario Soberón knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Albacete, and both men came out saying it was fine.
In brief
- The dugout Marcos Esteban on the point
- The dugout Jesús Vallejo left out for tactical reasons at Albacete
- Market Albacete put José Carlos Lazo up for sale