The Puebla Chronicle
Match3 Oct 2026
Ignacio Maestro Puch leads the rout of Dorados
4‑1, and Ignacio Maestro Puch took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Puebla tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
A brace, and Ignacio Maestro Puch takes the afternoon — 8.39
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Ignacio Maestro Puch provided it, and the 8.39 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Mario Anaya is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Ignacio Maestro Puch 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 Puebla this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Puebla training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dániel Gazdag 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.
The terraces5 Oct 2026
Puebla supporters have found a favourite in Ariel Gamarra
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Ariel Gamarra 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
No hiding place for Alfonso Blanco
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alfonso Blanco, and the manager let it.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
A masterclass from Emiliano Gómez
Marked 8.47 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
One of those days for Ariel Gamarra
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.35, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
In brief
- Player ratings Juan Pablo Vargas was on a different afternoon to everybody else
- Market Puebla and Leonardo Jiménez are talking past each other
- The terraces The spotlight tightens on Owen González