The Leon Sentinel
Squad5 Oct 2026
The knee: Luis Alfonso Rodríguez out for 30 days
30 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Leon lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Leon
Jordi Cortizo 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Real improvement from Jonathan Reyes at Leon
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Jonathan Reyes is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Ismael Díaz runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Juan Pablo Domínguez 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.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
No hiding place for Jordi Cortizo
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jordi Cortizo, and the manager let it.
The terraces5 Oct 2026
The crowd has taken to Emi Rodriguez
At 23 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
Leon find a way past Morelia
Morelia made Leon work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Match3 Oct 2026
Leon keep winning on the road
3 away wins in a row. Travelling support is the truest kind, and this season it is being repaid in the only currency that counts.
In brief
- Player ratings Juan Pablo Domínguez was on a different afternoon to everybody else
- Player ratings A masterclass from Emi Rodriguez
- The dugout A satisfied Uriel Edson