The Betis Herald
Market26 Oct 2026
Álvaro Valles has his eye on Europe
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Betis can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Antony 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 Betis this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Betis
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Álvaro Valles was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Antony beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 20. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
No hiding place for Álvaro Valles
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Álvaro Valles, and the manager let it.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Facundo Bernal makes it 100
100 times in these colours, in all weathers and under four or five different managers. That kind of service is quietly disappearing from the game.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Nobody on the pitch touched Aitor Ruibal
7.88, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Betis had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Squad26 Oct 2026
12 new faces, and Betis 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 dugout26 Oct 2026
Antony gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Antony is on it.
In brief
- The dugout Half-satisfied: Jon Marín on the draw
- The dugout Betis keep their word to Raffaele Huli
- Match Point won or two lost for Betis?