The Andorra Chronicle
Player ratings30 Aug 2027
Aingeru Olabarrieta runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 42. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match28 Aug 2027
The wait goes on for Andorra
5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Real improvement from Xavi Grande at Andorra
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Xavi Grande is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Arouna Sanganté 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.
Squad30 Aug 2027
A late step up for Marc Domènech
At 24 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Xavi Grande 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 Andorra this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match28 Aug 2027
Valladolid take the points off Andorra
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Market30 Aug 2027
Andorra sign Charles Carrasco, one for the future
Charles Carrasco is 19, and Andorra have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
Market30 Aug 2027
Andorra and Charles Carrasco are talking past each other
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
In brief
- Market The shop window has Martí Vilà in it
- Market Biel Ferrer leaves for nothing