The Llaneros Herald
Squad15 Mar 2027
Franco Villalba keeps Llaneros in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 15 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match13 Mar 2027
No end in sight to Llaneros's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Llaneros has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Franco Villalba is the real thing at 21
A season average of 7.05 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. Llaneros know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.
Match13 Mar 2027
3 matches without a goal for Llaneros
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Words at Llaneros training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. David Savarino 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.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Daniel Osorio 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 Llaneros this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings15 Mar 2027
Nobody could get near Yeferson Rosales
Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match13 Mar 2027
No goals between Llaneros and Metropolitanos
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Metropolitanos will be the happier side with the point.
Player ratings15 Mar 2027
The referee tires of Victor Herrera
Fouls conceded: 8. Some of it was commitment and some of it was frustration, and the free-kick count did not distinguish between the two.
In brief
- Market Luis Arango leaves for nothing
- Market Diego Moreno leaves for nothing
- The terraces The press cannot get enough of Franco Villalba