The Queretaro Sentinel
Squad4 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Queretaro
Michael Carcelén 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Real improvement from Emilio Albarran at Queretaro
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Emilio Albarran is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Market4 Jan 2027
Diego Reyes told to find a new club
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Diego Reyes has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Queretaro.
Match2 Jan 2027
A bad afternoon for Queretaro against Tigres
0‑1 to Tigres, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Carlos Villanueva stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Carlos Villanueva and Queretaro agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad4 Jan 2027
A row about effort at Queretaro
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Daniel Parra was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Gerardo Alvarez left the room before anybody could ask which.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
Bernardo Parra gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
Iker Benito runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
In brief
- The dugout The form table has caught José Sánchez
- Market The Iker Benito story refuses to die
- Looking ahead Ali Ávila faces his old club