The Cádiz Herald
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Up for the corner, and Moussa Diakité delivers — 7.97
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Moussa Diakité scored, was marked 7.97, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Javi Ontiveros out for 38 days
The medical room confirms 38 days on the sidelines for Javi Ontiveros, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Match12 Dec 2026
Urko Izeta sends Cádiz past Andorra
It finished 3‑2, and it was Urko Izeta’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Cádiz.
Squad14 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Cádiz
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Damián was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Manu Fernández 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 Cádiz this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces14 Dec 2026
The crowd has taken to Moussa Diakité
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Market14 Dec 2026
Jon León steps up from the Cádiz academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Jon León has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
García Pascual was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.41. 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 ratings14 Dec 2026
A masterclass from Urko Izeta
Marked 8.02 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
In brief
- The dugout No hiding place for Sergio Ortuño
- The dugout Jesús Vázquez has his say
- Player ratings Iuri Tabatadze runs at them all day