The La Equidad Sentinel
Squad16 Aug 2038
Oscar Castillo breaks a bone — 74 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 74 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match14 Aug 2038
The wait goes on for La Equidad
7 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.
Player ratings16 Aug 2038
Adrián Niño, 34, rolls back the years — 9.01
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 9.01 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad16 Aug 2038
Adrián Niño is in the form of his life
A season average of 7.64 with 14 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Player ratings16 Aug 2038
Up for the corner, and Ezequiel Godoy delivers — 7.47
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Ezequiel Godoy scored, was marked 7.47, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Squad16 Aug 2038
Leonardo Rios 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 La Equidad this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match14 Aug 2038
6 goals as La Equidad and America de Cali go for it
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between La Equidad and America de Cali, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Squad16 Aug 2038
Words at La Equidad training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Thiago Dowd 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.
Player ratings16 Aug 2038
A masterclass from Ebaldo Pérez
Marked 8.03 — 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.
In brief
- Match Honours even between La Equidad and America de Cali
- Player ratings A day to forget for André Maldonado
- The terraces The spotlight tightens on Eduardo Sepúlveda