The Leones Gazette
The terraces13 Oct 2031
Anger at Leones spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Match11 Oct 2031
Leones end the wait against Independiente Medellin
It had gone 15 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.
Match13 Oct 2031
Leones finish in position 20
19 points, and the season has a number on it. Whatever it felt like from the inside, this is what it will look like in a book.
Market13 Oct 2031
Yojhan Sánchez puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Leones, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad13 Oct 2031
Kevin Tamayo 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 Leones this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings13 Oct 2031
Nobody could get near Leyner Palacios
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match11 Oct 2031
Leones find a way past Independiente Medellin
Independiente Medellin made Leones work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings13 Oct 2031
One of those days for Juan Sebastián Peña
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.02, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad13 Oct 2031
Leones count the cost of losing Nicolas Montero
24 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
In brief
- The dugout The manager’s verdict
- The dugout Alexis Ríos left out for the big one
- The dugout Santiago Martínez gets it from the manager