The Rayo Zuliano Post
Match6 Mar 2027
Whatever happens, Rayo Zuliano do not lose
9 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Leandro Basán signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Leandro Basán and Rayo Zuliano agree another 2 years.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Words exchanged at Rayo Zuliano
Joiser Arias 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.
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
Joiser Arias beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 21. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Words at Rayo Zuliano training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Leandro Basán 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.
Match6 Mar 2027
The run is over for Rayo Zuliano
5 matches without defeat, and then Dynamo Puerto. Nobody at the ground pretended it would go on forever; nobody expected it to stop here either.
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
The afternoon belonged to Francisco La Mantia
A mark of 7.53, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Rayo Zuliano are still strangers to each other
5 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
Boardroom8 Mar 2027
Belts tighten at Rayo Zuliano
The accounts are being read more closely than the results. Wages before ambition is the order of business now, and the manager has been told so.
In brief
- The dugout José Camacaro has become a man the manager trusts
- The dugout Half-satisfied: Rafael Machis on the draw
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Rafael Ramírez