Daniel Herrera

Striker - Chiapas
26 Mar 2035
Monday
Process

Marked for Daniel Herrera

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The Chiapas Herald

5 Feb 2035
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The wait goes on for Chiapas

15 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

A fracture rules Isaiah LeFlore out for 44 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Chiapas will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Hector Moreno

There were 9 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Market

Chiapas say no — this time

The offer from Queretaro for Hector Moreno was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Match

The goals have deserted Chiapas

5 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Chiapas can tell you which week it ends in.

Market

Sebastian Montes hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Chiapas can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Daniel Herrera gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Daniel Herrera has just signed for Chiapas, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad

Lucas Di Yorio signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Lucas Di Yorio and Chiapas agree another 2 years.

The terraces

Chiapas supporters have found a favourite in Hector Moreno

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Hector Moreno has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

In brief

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The Santos Laguna Sentinel

16 Jan 2034
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Eduardo Aguirre 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 Santos Laguna this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Aldo López 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.

Match

Tahiel Jiménez sends Santos Laguna past Tigres

It finished 1‑0, and it was Tahiel Jiménez’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Santos Laguna.

Player ratings

The game went through Diego Medina — 7.86

Marked 7.86 on 9 actions at both ends of the pitch. Midfielders like this get described as unspectacular by people who have never tried to play against one.

Player ratings

Tahiel Jiménez stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.94 on the card, and the Santos Laguna support went home talking about one name.

Market

Dorados are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Santos Laguna will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

Squad

Eduardo Aguirre dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

Squad

When it matters, Ezequiel Bullaude plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Player ratings

Nothing got past Ricardo Echeverría

12 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.

In brief