The Deportivo Riestra Courier
Squad22 Apr 2030
The knee: Antony Alonso out for 89 days
89 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Deportivo Riestra lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad22 Apr 2030
Omar Bautista Gerez breaks a bone — 22 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 22 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match20 Apr 2030
Deportivo Riestra tear Arsenal apart
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 6‑0 against Arsenal, and it could have been more.
Player ratings22 Apr 2030
A brace, and Iván Fernández takes the afternoon — 8.71
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Iván Fernández provided it, and the 8.71 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Match22 Apr 2030
The view from the top for Deportivo Riestra
26 points, and the rest of the division looking up. Every side that finishes first spends the season pretending it is not thinking about it, and this one has started pretending.
Squad22 Apr 2030
Nicolás Molina takes the match ball home
3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
Market22 Apr 2030
Lautaro García 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 Deportivo Riestra can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings22 Apr 2030
Ninety minutes of Nicolás Molina at his very best
Marked 9.97. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Deportivo Riestra.
Match20 Apr 2030
6 goals as Deportivo Riestra and Arsenal go for it
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Deportivo Riestra and Arsenal, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
In brief
- Squad Pedro Dacrema arrives at the club he grew up with
- The terraces The crowd has taken to Lautaro García
- Player ratings Agustín Franco in the eights