The Leon Sentinel
Squad28 Sep 2026
The knee: Hector Sanchez out for 33 days
33 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A day Ismael Díaz will not forget
3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.
Match26 Sep 2026
Leon cannot stop winning
4 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Leon
Jordi Cortizo and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Nobody could get near Emi Rodriguez
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Ismael Díaz in the eights
A performance of 9.44 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at Leon training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Juan Pablo Domínguez is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Match26 Sep 2026
Ismael Díaz the difference as Leon beat Pachuca
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Ismael Díaz. 3‑1 against Pachuca, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Market28 Sep 2026
Leon may not be able to give Daniel Arcila what he wants
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Daniel Arcila wants continental football; whether Leon can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
In brief
- The dugout Oribe Herrera: “That is the standard”
- Market No place for Jesús Lara in the plan
- The dugout Leon pick somebody else ahead of Daniel Arcila