Roberto López

Central Midfielder - Leganés
3 Jan 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Roberto López

20 Edition

The Leganés Chronicle

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Nobody wants to play Leganés right now

5 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Player ratings

Óscar Plano, 35, rolls back the years — 7.88

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.88 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Player ratings

Enric Franquesa 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.

Squad

Words exchanged at Leganés

Dani Rodríguez 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 dugout

Roberto López 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.

Match

Leganés are at home on the road

3 straight away victories. Sides that win away are usually sides that can defend and can counter, and the table has begun to reflect what those journeys have earned.

Match

Leganés see off Valladolid

Three points for Leganés, 1‑0 the final word against Valladolid in a contest settled by the finer margins.

The dugout

The manager has not finished forgetting Dani Rodríguez's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

The dugout

A satisfied Martín Méndez

“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 1‑0, Martín Méndez could afford to be generous.

In brief

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The Leganés Chronicle

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

The dugout

Sebastián Driussi says Leganés went back on their word

“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.

Player ratings

Álvaro Morata, 34, rolls back the years — 8.17

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.17 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Squad

Leganés count the cost of losing Luca Zidane

48 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Match

Leganés cannot stop winning

3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Squad

Words exchanged at Leganés

Óscar Plano 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Leganés

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

Match

Álvaro Morata the difference as Leganés beat Cultural Leonesa

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Álvaro Morata. 1‑0 against Cultural Leonesa, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Boardroom

Wages eat 121% of everything Leganés earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

The dugout

A promise honoured at Leganés

Something was said to Roberto López and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.

In brief

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The Leganés Chronicle

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Grischa Prömel 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 Leganés this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Leganés training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Óscar Plano 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 dugout

No hiding place for Yassine Kechta

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Yassine Kechta, and the manager let it.

The dugout

Miguel Atienza is still paying for one afternoon at Leganés

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

Squad

Roberto López named player of the week

One weekend, judged against everybody else's. Roberto López has come out on top of it, and for most footballers a weekly award is the only silverware a career ever produces.

The dugout

Zico Buurmeester has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Leganés 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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The Leganés Chronicle

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

The small margins put Leganés out

Out, 1‑2 to Real Sociedad, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.

Player ratings

Both of them Roberto López's — 8.19

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.19, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Rubén Peña yet — 7.86

At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.86 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad

Yassine Kechta wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Leganés can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

Squad

Words exchanged at Leganés

Álvaro Morata 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Leganés

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

Player ratings

Patrick Soko runs at them all day

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.

Market

Roberto López is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Leganés has been clear about where Roberto López stands, which is more than many ever get.

The dugout

No hiding place for Luca Zidane

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Luca Zidane, and the manager let it.

In brief

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The Leganés Chronicle

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Seydouba Cissé beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 27. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

Words exchanged at Leganés

Lalo Aguilar 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 dugout

The manager makes an example of Roberto López

“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.

Player ratings

Patrick Soko in the eights

A performance of 8.04 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Boardroom

Wages swallow 121% of the Leganés income

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.

The dugout

Somebody else is better right now than Enric Franquesa

The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.

Match

Ezequiel Ávila rescues a point for Leganés

It needed Ezequiel Ávila to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Almería, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

Match

Leganés share the spoils with Cádiz

A 1‑1 draw with Cádiz leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

Squad

Leganés take the armband off Grischa Prömel

It will be explained as a change for the team and it may even be one. Nobody who has worn one believes that, and neither does the man who has just had it taken away.

In brief

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The Leganés Chronicle

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Enric Franquesa 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 Leganés, and it is not being withdrawn.

Player ratings

Álvaro Morata, 33, rolls back the years — 7.83

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.83 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Óscar Plano

Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

A row about effort at Leganés

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

Squad

Tempers go at Leganés

Lalo Aguilar 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Roberto López

“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.

Squad

13 new faces, and Leganés 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.

Match

Leganés and Las Palmas take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Martín Méndez was not hiding it after 1‑1, and nobody in the Leganés dressing room was either.

In brief