The Pontevedra Gazette
Player ratings18 Oct 2032
Corentin Tolisso goes up and wins it — 7.77
A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.77 for the rest of it.
The dugout18 Oct 2032
Miracle Orisakwe: 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.” Pontevedra have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad18 Oct 2032
A falling-out at Pontevedra
Santino González and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad18 Oct 2032
Ilja Maximenkov arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Ilja Maximenkov has, at Pontevedra, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Match16 Oct 2032
Corentin Tolisso sends Pontevedra past Celta Fortuna
It finished 3‑2, and it was Corentin Tolisso’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Pontevedra.
Squad18 Oct 2032
Home is on Anfane Ahamada's mind
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Pontevedra are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad18 Oct 2032
Raúl Nuño 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 dugout18 Oct 2032
No hiding place for Emilio Figueredo
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Emilio Figueredo, and the manager let it.
Player ratings18 Oct 2032
Álex Costa takes the honours
Marked 7.94 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Pontevedra had the best player on the pitch.
In brief
- Market Pontevedra sign Baba Acquah, one for the future
- The dugout Henry Ross has his say
- Market Talks stall between Pontevedra and Mauricio Chanampa