Sem Pepers

Defensive Midfielder - Oviedo
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Marked for Sem Pepers

117 Edition

The Oviedo Post

23 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad23 Oct 2028

Sem Pepers says Oviedo went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Match21 Oct 2028

Nobody wants to play Oviedo right now

3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Squad23 Oct 2028

Nacho Vidal 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 Oviedo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match21 Oct 2028

Oviedo see off Zaragoza

Three points for Oviedo, 3‑2 the final word against Zaragoza in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Player ratings23 Oct 2028

Haissem Hassan in the eights

A performance of 9.28 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Squad23 Oct 2028

Haissem Hassan is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.47 with 7 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Player ratings23 Oct 2028

A masterclass from Pablo Sáenz

Marked 9.07 — 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.

Player ratings23 Oct 2028

One of those days for Ilyas Chaira

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.80, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad23 Oct 2028

The manager makes an example of Alan Salas

“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.

In brief

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The Oviedo Post

4 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad4 Sep 2028

A one-man rearguard from Aarón Escandell

There were 12 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.

Market4 Sep 2028

Morris Duggan asks to leave Oviedo

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad4 Sep 2028

Tempers go at Oviedo

Ilyas Chaira 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.

Player ratings4 Sep 2028

A masterclass from Haissem Hassan

Marked 9.36 — 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.

Match2 Sep 2028

Haissem Hassan sends Oviedo past Getafe

It finished 2‑1, and it was Haissem Hassan’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Oviedo.

Player ratings4 Sep 2028

Alan Salas in the eights

A performance of 8.45 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Squad4 Sep 2028

No hiding place for Sem Pepers

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Sem Pepers, and the manager let it.

Squad4 Sep 2028

Yanick Brecher asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Player ratings4 Sep 2028

Pablo Sáenz leaves them behind him

Shots: 6. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.

In brief

77 Edition

The Oviedo Post

17 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match15 Jan 2028

The wait goes on for Oviedo

19 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad17 Jan 2028

Aarón Escandell keeps Oviedo in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Player ratings17 Jan 2028

Pablo Sáenz runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad17 Jan 2028

Tempers go at Oviedo

Aarón Escandell 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.

Squad17 Jan 2028

The manager makes an example of Ilyas Chaira

“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 ratings17 Jan 2028

A masterclass from Haissem Hassan

Marked 8.97 — 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.

Squad17 Jan 2028

Defences have started doubling up on Haissem Hassan

9 goals and a season average of 7.35 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

Match15 Jan 2028

Honours even between Oviedo and Alavés

2‑2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

Player ratings17 Jan 2028

Precious Benjamin leaves them behind him

Shots: 8. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.

In brief

56 Edition

The Vitesse Sentinel

23 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings23 Aug 2027

Denis Bouanga runs at them all day

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.

Market23 Aug 2027

Naoufal Bannis 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 Vitesse can pretend not to have heard.

Squad23 Aug 2027

Vitesse count the cost of losing Djibril Sidibé

17 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Squad23 Aug 2027

James Tarkowski 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 Vitesse this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad23 Aug 2027

No hiding place for Stefan Ortega

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Stefan Ortega, and the manager let it.

Match21 Aug 2027

ADO Den Haag take the points off Vitesse

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad23 Aug 2027

Vitesse count the cost of losing Nathan Markelo

14 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Player ratings23 Aug 2027

The one thing Agustín Fontana could not do

Shots: 12, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.

Player ratings23 Aug 2027

Marcus Steffen's mistake decides it

Ten men and a goalkeeper behind him, and it still finished in the net. He knew before anybody told him, and nobody at Vitesse needed to.

In brief