The Espanyol Sentinel
Match12 Sep 2026
Elche punish Espanyol for switching off
2 goals to the good, and then a slow surrender of everything that had been earned. Bryan Zaragoza will not be the one blamed for it, but nobody at Espanyol escapes the conversation that follows a collapse like this.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Javi Puado was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 31. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Both of them Bryan Zaragoza's — 8.06
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.06, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Match12 Sep 2026
4 matches without a win for Espanyol
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Espanyol are no longer polite ones.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Álex Calatrava signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Álex Calatrava commits to Espanyol for another 4 years.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Espanyol training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Omar El Hilali 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.
Market14 Sep 2026
One of our own: Juan Serrano joins the Espanyol first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Juan Serrano is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market14 Sep 2026
Espanyol promote Javier Ramírez from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Javier Ramírez has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
The game went through Quilindschy Hartman — 7.66
Marked 7.66 on 10 actions at both ends of the pitch. Midfielders like this get described as unspectacular by people who have never tried to play against one.
In brief
- Squad A falling-out at Espanyol
- Match Bryan Zaragoza rescues a point for Espanyol
- The dugout Somebody else is better right now than Kike García