The Llaneros Herald
Match23 Jun 2035
No end in sight to Llaneros's wait for a win
21 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Llaneros has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad25 Jun 2035
A knee injury of the worst kind for Junior Murillo
28 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Llaneros lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings25 Jun 2035
Nobody could get near Román González
Successful dribbles: 32. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market25 Jun 2035
Junior Rosales puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Llaneros, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad25 Jun 2035
Brian Mancini 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 Llaneros this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad25 Jun 2035
Words at Llaneros training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Aytor Herrera 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.
Squad25 Jun 2035
Gabriel Machis out for 46 days
The medical room confirms 46 days on the sidelines for Gabriel Machis, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Player ratings25 Jun 2035
Víctor Saya takes the honours
Marked 7.85 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Llaneros had the best player on the pitch.
Match23 Jun 2035
Víctor Saya rescues a point for Llaneros
It needed Víctor Saya to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Metropolitanos, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
In brief
- Player ratings Off the bench and decisive: Daniel Martinez
- Market Fernando Rosales leaves for nothing
- Market Gabriel Osorio leaves for nothing