Álvaro Gete

Central Defender - Real Avilés
19 Dec 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Álvaro Gete

19 Edition

The Real Avilés Post

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Real Avilés leave it late against Lugo

Ninety minutes of very little, and then everything at once. The winner arrived in the 87th, and Lugo spent what remained of the match appealing to the referee rather than chasing the ball.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Álvaro Fernández

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Squad

Words exchanged at Real Avilés

Christian Rivera and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Match

Real Avilés see off Lugo

Three points for Real Avilés, 1‑0 the final word against Lugo in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad

Mehmet Sıddık İstemi signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Mehmet Sıddık İstemi commits to Real Avilés for another 1 years.

Player ratings

Isi Ros was the difference for Real Avilés

Marked 7.84. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

The dugout

Somebody else is better right now than Tomás Mejías

The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Iván Lozano kept it short after the 1‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.

Squad

Words at Real Avilés training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Álvaro Gete 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.

In brief

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18 Edition

The Real Avilés Post

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Real Avilés run riot against Celta Fortuna

3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Player ratings

Luis Pérez pops up at the right end — 7.75

7.75, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.

Player ratings

Ósky goes up and wins it — 7.22

A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.22 for the rest of it.

Match

Real Avilés end the wait against Celta Fortuna

It had gone 8 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.

The terraces

Real Avilés supporters have found a favourite in Ósky

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Ósky has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Tomás Mejías

“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.

Boardroom

Wages eat 137% of everything Real Avilés earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

Player ratings

Isi Ros was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.41. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Squad

Pablo Álvarez 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 Real Avilés this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief