The Leganés Chronicle
Squad12 Apr 2027
The knee: Javi Montero out for 29 days
29 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Leganés lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Defences have started doubling up on Álvaro Morata
29 goals and a season average of 7.51 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Match10 Apr 2027
No mercy from Leganés
Cultural Leonesa will want this one forgotten quickly: 4‑1, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Leganés were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Player ratings12 Apr 2027
A brace, and Álvaro Morata takes the afternoon — 9.23
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Álvaro Morata provided it, and the 9.23 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad12 Apr 2027
7 saves: Luca Zidane was the team
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Player ratings12 Apr 2027
Ignasi Miquel, 34, rolls back the years — 8.09
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.09 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Álvaro Morata 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 Leganés this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match10 Apr 2027
Whatever happens, Leganés do not lose
6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Market12 Apr 2027
Andrés Santos steps up from the Leganés academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Andrés Santos 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
- Player ratings Ninety minutes of Patrick Soko at his very best
- Player ratings Roberto López was on a different afternoon to everybody else
- Market No place for Juankar in the plan