The Espanyol Sentinel
Player ratings11 Dec 2034
Jofre Carreras runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 31. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market11 Dec 2034
Eyes on Marcos Fernández again
The phone has started ringing about Marcos Fernández again, and this time the name on the line is Sporting Cristal. Espanyol are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad11 Dec 2034
Tyrhys Dolan 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 Espanyol this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match9 Dec 2034
No end in sight to Espanyol's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Espanyol has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad11 Dec 2034
Clemens Riedel 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.
Boardroom11 Dec 2034
Lorenzo Masetti will join Espanyol for nothing
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Lorenzo Masetti has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Espanyol have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Player ratings11 Dec 2034
Tyrhys Dolan was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.31. 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.
Squad11 Dec 2034
Urko González 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.
Squad11 Dec 2034
Jofre Carreras has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Espanyol will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
In brief
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