The Deportivo La Coruña Sentinel
Squad1 May 2034
A fracture rules Roberto Camacho out for 35 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Deportivo La Coruña will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings1 May 2034
A brace, and David Mella takes the afternoon — 8.41
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. David Mella provided it, and the 8.41 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings1 May 2034
Rubén Sánchez, 33, rolls back the years — 7.80
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.80 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad1 May 2034
Nil Vidal: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Deportivo La Coruña have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad1 May 2034
Tempers go at Deportivo La Coruña
Adama Traoré 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.
Squad1 May 2034
Words at Deportivo La Coruña training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mario Soriano 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.
Match29 Apr 2034
David Mella rescues a point for Deportivo La Coruña
It needed David Mella to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Girona, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
The terraces1 May 2034
The spotlight tightens on Leo Román
Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.
Market1 May 2034
The Javi Guerra story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Javi Guerra signs something — a contract at Deportivo La Coruña or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
In brief
- Player ratings Elad Madmon runs at them all day
- Market Mateo Gallardo placed on the list
- The terraces The press have found their man in David Mella