The name of César Moreno has come up in conversations Ourense CF were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad31 Jul 2028
Sergio Benito 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.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Guadalajara have kept their man, and Ourense CF go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Ourense CF, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Eugenio Cardoso is on it.
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Ourense CF. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
In brief
SquadThe training reports on Nacho Castillo are not good
The mood at Ourense CF has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. César Moreno will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Ourense CF the goodbyes have quietly begun.
$27.0K was the most the club would pay and Pontevedra were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Sergio Benito was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Ourense CF have made the call to Guadalajara. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Ourense CF, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Nobody at Ourense CF 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
The terracesThe Sergio Benito rumours reach the terraces
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Ourense CF people have started saying his name in the past tense.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Ourense CF can pretend not to have heard.
Add another name to the list: Arenas Club have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Rodrigo Meccia. The answer from Ourense CF has not changed — yet.
Squad10 Jul 2028
Sergio Benito 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.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Gijón have kept their man, and Ourense CF go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Enol Coto and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Ourense CF have made the call to Leganés. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Ourense CF have made the call to Albacete. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Ourense CF is running low.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Ourense CF can pretend not to have heard.
The phone has started ringing about César Moreno again, and this time the name on the line is Gimnàstic. Ourense CF are listening politely and promising nothing.
The deal with Albacete is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Álvaro Ratón 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.
Squad3 Jul 2028
Sergio Benito 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.
A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Ourense CF can pretend not to have heard.
Ourense CF had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Real Sociedad, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Álvaro Ratón and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
$27.0K on the table at Pontevedra. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Lugo have kept their man, and Ourense CF go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.
Racing Santander have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Squad5 Jun 2028
A place in the month's best eleven for César Moreno
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. César Moreno has come out of that comparison in the side, and Ourense CF have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
Every squad has men who were signed by a particular manager and men who were merely inherited. Aitor Aranzabe is in the first group, and the man who wanted him here is no longer in the building.
A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad29 May 2028
Sergio Benito 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.
Nobody at Ourense CF 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.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Ourense CF, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Position 18 on 30 points. Every season is a story and this is the last line of it, and now the club has three months to decide what the next one is about.
There were 85 minutes on the clock and Lugo had all but banked the point. Football rarely reads the room, and Ourense CF did not stop to explain themselves.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Ourense CF this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
6 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Lugo were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.
Successful dribbles: 19. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Darío Hidalgo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout17 Apr 2028
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Oihan Rojas to a room that had heard them before.
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.
Successful dribbles: 9. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.
“Nobody outside is coming to save us.” It was short, it was not comfortable, and by all accounts the Ourense CF squad were quieter afterwards than they had been all season.
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad10 Apr 2028
Sergio Benito 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.
“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 dugout10 Apr 2028
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑2 Oihan Rojas left the room before anybody could ask which.
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.
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Nacho’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Ourense CF needing him to play as if none of it matters.
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Squad3 Apr 2028
Sergio Benito 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.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Ourense CF this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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.
15 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Ourense CF lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Álvaro Ratón and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad27 Mar 2028
Words at Ourense CF training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Darío Hidalgo 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.
Unionistas next, and one man in the Ourense CF dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
Nobody at Ourense CF 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.
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
The words a physio says slowly. 45 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Position 20 and 19 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
It is a specific kind of quiet, a ground watching a winning position dissolve. Real Madrid Castilla kept coming because nothing stopped them, and Ourense CF will be asked about the last half hour all week.
Squad28 Feb 2028
Sergio Benito 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.
It finished 2‑2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
The dugout28 Feb 2028
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Oihan Rojas chose the glass-half-full version of 2‑2; the supporters left with the other one.
He is the name in every column and on every phone-in, which is a heavy thing to carry at any age. Some footballers thrive on it; others are quietly finished by it.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Ourense CF, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The deal with CE Europa is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
$76.0K was the most the club would pay and Almería were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Sergio Benito was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to César Moreno, and the manager let it.
Player ratings31 Jan 2028
César Moreno was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.02. 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.
Position 20 and 9 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
At 22 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.
Álvaro Ratón and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad6 Dec 2027
Words at Ourense CF training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sergio Benito 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.
Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Sergio Benito was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Level with 88 minutes on the clock, after an afternoon Ourense CF had all but put away. Cacereño will call it a point earned; the home dressing room will call it two given away, and both of them are right.
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and César Moreno trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout29 Nov 2027
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Oihan Rojas chose the glass-half-full version of 1‑1; the supporters left with the other one.
Nobody at Ourense CF 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.
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Nacho Castillo and Ourense CF agree another 3 years.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Words at Ourense CF training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Darío Hidalgo 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.
Something was said to Adri Pérez and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Gio Loureiro is on it.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Sergio Benito was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout4 Oct 2027
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Oihan Rojas to a room that had heard them before.
Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
Nobody at Ourense CF 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.
Nothing is announced when this happens and everybody knows. He is a bigger part of the plan at Ourense CF than he was a month ago, and the training ground worked that out before the team sheet said so.
Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and César Moreno obliged against Barakaldo. 2‑3 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Ourense CF.
The hardest thing about being 18 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Rolf Hauknes did not need any: 8.62, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Player ratings20 Sep 2027
Up for the corner, and César Moreno delivers — 7.76
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. César Moreno scored, was marked 7.76, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Sergio Benito 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.
Squad20 Sep 2027
Darío Hidalgo 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.
He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Squad20 Sep 2027
7 new faces, and Ourense CF are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Oihan Rojas after 2‑3, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
21 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Ourense CF lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Ourense CF can pretend not to have heard.
$1.4M was the most the club would pay and Almería were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Ourense CF this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The offer went to Eldense this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Celta have kept their man, and Ourense CF go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Darío Hidalgo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and César Moreno trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
29 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Ourense CF lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
The offer went to Celta this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
6 academy players handed senior numbers at Ourense CF
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Sergio Benito was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Tarazona have kept their man, and Ourense CF go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Francisco Ibañez is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Pedro León has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Daniel Aguilar is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
The words a physio says slowly. 75 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Ourense CF can pretend not to have heard.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Ourense CF this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 May 2027
Words at Ourense CF training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mamadou Loum 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.
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Oihan Rojas after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Warm-up bib, ninety minutes of watching, and a handshake at the end that fooled nobody. Big matches tell you who a manager trusts; this one told Santiago Caicedo.
The words a physio says slowly. 82 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Edu Sánchez did not need any: 7.97, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Álvaro Ratón and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad3 May 2027
Sergio Benito 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.
At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Sergio Benito. 1‑0 against Arenas Club, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
The dugout3 May 2027
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.” Oihan Rojas kept it short after the 1‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Rodrigo Meccia will call it something else in private.
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
In brief
The dugoutCésar Moreno knocks on the manager’s door
Looking aheadA test against the best for Ourense CF
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” César Moreno commits to Ourense CF for another 3 years.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words at Ourense CF training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sergio Benito 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.
Arenteiro held the lead for 1 minutes, which is not long enough to enjoy it. Ourense CF answered before the celebration had properly finished, and the shape of the afternoon changed with it.
Jerin and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Oihan Rojas chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
“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 Ourense CF, and it is not being withdrawn.
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Ourense CF have done the hard part with Valladolid, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Mamadou Loum 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.
Successful dribbles: 20. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Álvaro Ratón and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Oihan Rojas was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Ourense CF dressing room was either.
14 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Ourense CF can pretend not to have heard.
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Ourense CF have done the hard part with Almería, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Mamadou Loum 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.
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Sergio Benito 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.
7.88, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mamadou Loum was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Mamadou Loum is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Oihan Rojas after the 1‑1 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
Marked 5.34. Nothing he attempted worked and by the hour mark he had stopped attempting much, which is the part a manager notices rather than the mistakes.