The Getafe Post
Squad22 Mar 2038
Julen Blanco damages knee ligaments — 107 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 107 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad22 Mar 2038
Adrián Suárez keeps Getafe in it on his own
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 ratings22 Mar 2038
Age has not caught Christantus Uche yet — 8.81
At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.81 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad22 Mar 2038
Kamel Hamidi: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Getafe have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad22 Mar 2038
Christantus Uche is in the form of his life
A season average of 7.57 with 11 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Match20 Mar 2038
Getafe and Zaragoza take a point apiece
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Market22 Mar 2038
The Christantus Uche story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Christantus Uche signs something — a contract at Getafe or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Player ratings22 Mar 2038
The chances came and went for Ignacio Díaz
13 shots, and a count that reads like a good afternoon until you check the other column. Strikers survive weeks like this on the understanding that the chances keep arriving; the day they stop is the day it becomes a problem.
The terraces22 Mar 2038
The spotlight tightens on Benn Ward
Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.