The Llaneros Herald
Squad16 Aug 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Juan Martinez
65 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Llaneros lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match16 Aug 2027
Llaneros are in real trouble now
Position 14, 19 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Match14 Aug 2027
5 matches without a win for Llaneros
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Llaneros are no longer polite ones.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Words at Llaneros training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Cristian Murillo 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.
Match14 Aug 2027
Llaneros come up short against Portuguesa
Portuguesa left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad16 Aug 2027
The manager makes an example of Diego Castillo
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
In brief
- Squad Erick Sarmiento in a row with a teammate
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Andres Herrera
- Player ratings The referee tires of Diego Castillo