The Albacete Herald
Squad31 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Albacete
Jesús Vallejo 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 ratings31 Aug 2026
Higinio runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market31 Aug 2026
As if he never left: Juan María Alcedo returns
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Juan María Alcedo is a Albacete player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Match29 Aug 2026
Huesca take the points off Albacete
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad31 Aug 2026
José Corpas 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 ratings31 Aug 2026
A masterclass from Antonio Puertas
Marked 8.72 — 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
Albacete and Juan María Alcedo are talking past each other
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Mario Soberón keeps on missing
Shots: 12, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Antonio Puertas finally opens his account
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Albacete have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
In brief
- Player ratings A day to forget for Jonathan Gómez
- Squad Jesús Vallejo has company in his position
- The terraces The press cannot get enough of Antonio Puertas