The Llaneros Herald
Squad15 Apr 2030
Salomon Cordova breaks a bone — 150 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 150 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match13 Apr 2030
Llaneros run riot against Zulia
3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Player ratings15 Apr 2030
Fernando Martinez, 35, rolls back the years — 8.83
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.83 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad15 Apr 2030
Daniel Machis says Llaneros went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad15 Apr 2030
Tempers go at Llaneros
Fernando Martinez 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.
Squad15 Apr 2030
Words at Llaneros training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Aytor Herrera 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.
Player ratings15 Apr 2030
Junior Murillo was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.04. 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.
Player ratings15 Apr 2030
Gabriel Herrera in the eights
A performance of 8.01 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings15 Apr 2030
Oscar Savarino runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
In brief
- Market Llaneros put Alejandro Gutiérrez up for sale
- Boardroom Llaneros keep producing them
- The terraces The press cannot get enough of Fernando Martinez