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The Alavés Sentinel

22 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match20 Feb 2027

No end in sight to Alavés's wait for a win

8 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Alavés has to find a result from somewhere.

Player ratings22 Feb 2027

Lucas Boyé runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad22 Feb 2027

Tempers go at Alavés

Toni Martínez was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Match20 Feb 2027

A bad afternoon for Alavés against Elche

1‑2 to Elche, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout22 Feb 2027

Raúl Fernández gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

The dugout22 Feb 2027

Ignacio Ibañez: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

Market22 Feb 2027

The Antonio Blanco story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Antonio Blanco signs something — a contract at Alavés or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

The dugout22 Feb 2027

When it matters, Mariano 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.

Looking ahead22 Feb 2027

Jonny faces his old club

Atlético Madrid next, and one man in the Alavés dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.

In brief

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The Alavés Sentinel

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings19 Oct 2026

Up for the corner, and Antonio Blanco delivers — 7.92

Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Antonio Blanco scored, was marked 7.92, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.

Squad19 Oct 2026

A falling-out at Alavés

Toni Martínez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad19 Oct 2026

The step up is real for Hugo Novoa

At 23 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Match17 Oct 2026

Alavés get the job done against Elche

A 2‑1 win over Elche, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Player ratings19 Oct 2026

Both jobs done by Carles Aleñá — 7.08

A midfielder is measured on whether the team functions when he is on the pitch, which is nearly impossible to see and completely obvious in retrospect. 11 actions, 7.08, and a manager who will not be substituting him again in a hurry.

Squad19 Oct 2026

A row about effort at Alavés

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Pablo Ibañez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Player ratings19 Oct 2026

Marcos López was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.03. 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.

The dugout19 Oct 2026

The manager makes an example of Facundo Garcés

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

The dugout19 Oct 2026

The manager’s verdict

“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Ignacio Ibañez kept it short after the 2‑1 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.

In brief