The La Equidad Sentinel
Squad5 Feb 2029
The knee: Miguel Sanchez out for 56 days
56 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. La Equidad lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market5 Feb 2029
Freddy Arias asks to leave La Equidad
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Match3 Feb 2029
Cortulua punish La Equidad for switching off
2 goals to the good, and then a slow surrender of everything that had been earned. Nicolas Sinisterra will not be the one blamed for it, but nobody at La Equidad escapes the conversation that follows a collapse like this.
Player ratings5 Feb 2029
Leonardo Palacios was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 29. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad5 Feb 2029
Tempers go at La Equidad
Pablo Hernandez was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad5 Feb 2029
Gustavo Restrepo 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.
Player ratings5 Feb 2029
Nicolas Sinisterra was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.05. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Match3 Feb 2029
Nicolas Sinisterra rescues a point for La Equidad
It needed Nicolas Sinisterra to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Cortulua, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Squad5 Feb 2029
Francisco Barrios makes the team of the month
Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
In brief
- The dugout Gustavo Restrepo has become a man the manager trusts
- The dugout Rafael Tapia gets it from the manager
- The dugout Alfredo Rios: “We have to be better”