The Santos Laguna Sentinel
Squad8 Jan 2035
Alex Valencia damages knee ligaments — 55 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 55 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match3 Jan 2035
Santos Laguna bow out of the cup
Pumas UNAM go through and Santos Laguna go home, 0‑1 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Player ratings8 Jan 2035
Ramiro Sordo scores twice — 8.30
Two goals and a mark of 8.30 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad8 Jan 2035
Carlos Acevedo keeps Santos Laguna in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Player ratings8 Jan 2035
Age has not caught Diego Medina yet — 7.96
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.96 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Market8 Jan 2035
Luis Ernesto Ruiz is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Santos Laguna is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad8 Jan 2035
Eduardo Aguirre 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 Santos Laguna this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad8 Jan 2035
Aldo López 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.
Match6 Jan 2035
Santos Laguna get the job done against Atlas
A 2‑1 win over Atlas, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
In brief
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Joban González
- Market The Ezequiel Bullaude story refuses to die
- Market Daniel Gutierrez leaves for nothing