The Andorra Chronicle
Player ratings24 Feb 2031
Both of them Andrés Campos's — 8.15
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.15, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad24 Feb 2031
Thomas Carrique 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.
The dugout24 Feb 2031
Thomas Carrique gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad24 Feb 2031
Izei Cabrera out for 35 days
The medical room confirms 35 days on the sidelines for Izei Cabrera, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad24 Feb 2031
Gustavo Reis wants to go home
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Andorra know it.
Match22 Feb 2031
Andrés Campos rescues a point for Andorra
It needed Andrés Campos to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Alavés, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
The dugout24 Feb 2031
Interim Coach on the point
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Interim Coach after the 2‑2 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
The dugout24 Feb 2031
Somebody else is better right now than Lesedi Steve Alset
The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.
Squad24 Feb 2031
Enrique Rodríguez: “I am not a substitute”
“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Andorra will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.
In brief
- Looking ahead Andrés Campos faces his old club
- Market Javi Cueto linked with a move away
- The dugout No place in the plan for Diego Alende