The Albacete Herald
Squad12 Apr 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Higinio
119 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Albacete lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings12 Apr 2027
No sign of nerves from Yan Diomandé at 20 — 8.03
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Yan Diomandé did not need any: 8.03, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Yan Diomandé is the real thing at 20
A season average of 7.17 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. Albacete know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Tempers go at Albacete
Yan Diomandé 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.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Words at Albacete training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Carlos Neva 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.
Market12 Apr 2027
Aimar Torres steps up from the Albacete academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Aimar Torres 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.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Álvaro Solís joins the Albacete first team
- Match Yan Diomandé rescues a point for Albacete
- Player ratings Antonio Puertas runs at them all day
- Player ratings The referee tires of Carlos Neva