Marked for Adrián Suárez
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Crisis
Match10 Oct 2026
No end in sight to Andorra's wait for a win
6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Andorra has to find a result from somewhere.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Adrián Suárez is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at Andorra training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kjell Peersman 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Javi Díaz 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Edgar
“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.
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Steady
Squad21 Sep 2026
Kjell Peersman decides it from twelve yards
3 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.
Match16 Sep 2026
Andorra through in the cup
A 1‑1 win over Eibar, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Squad21 Sep 2026
42 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Aingeru Olabarrieta 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Kjell Peersman falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Minsu Kim runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The terraces21 Sep 2026
Andorra supporters have found a favourite in Josep Cerdà
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Josep Cerdà 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
0‑1 to Deportivo La Coruña, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes of Josep Cerdà at his very best
Marked 8.52. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Andorra.
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Upbeat
Squad7 Sep 2026
There were 7 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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Andorra counting the cost
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Andorra now.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Aingeru Olabarrieta did not need any: 8.27, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Adrián Suárez is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Marked 9.23 — 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Diego Parras 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 Andorra this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
One of those days for Jastin
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.99, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
The terraces7 Sep 2026
The crowd has taken to Jastin
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Match5 Sep 2026
A 2‑0 win over Real Sociedad B, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
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Upbeat
Squad31 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Aingeru Olabarrieta did not need any: 9.10, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Market31 Aug 2026
The paperwork is done: Adrián Suárez joins from Las Palmas in a deal worth $1.2M. Now comes the harder part.
Squad31 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Andorra this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A move Daryll Benlahlou would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Daryll Benlahlou is living that version at Andorra, and it tends to show in the first month.
Match29 Aug 2026
Valladolid made Andorra work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.40, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“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.
Market31 Aug 2026
He is 20, and nobody at Andorra signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
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Uneasy
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 36. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Iker Bravo, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 8.33
A mark of 8.33 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Las Palmas can pretend not to have heard.
Market31 Aug 2026
Business is business: Adrián Suárez goes
Andorra paid $1.2M and Las Palmas took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Dinko Horkaš 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 Las Palmas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to Iker Bravo
At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Sergio Barcia was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.81. 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
40 per cent sure, said the file that landed on the director's desk. Platense let him go, Las Palmas did not hesitate, and the scouting department has earned the right to a smug fortnight.
Match29 Aug 2026
2‑2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
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Crisis
Squad24 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market24 Aug 2026
Adrián Suárez hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Las Palmas can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad24 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Sandro
“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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Sergio Barcia was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.59. 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Sergio Barcia falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Sandro is still paying for one afternoon at Las Palmas
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.