Marked for Javi López
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad5 Jul 2027
A season average of 6.62 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. Real Sociedad know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.
Market5 Jul 2027
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Real Sociedad heard it as anything else.
Squad5 Jul 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Real Sociedad this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market5 Jul 2027
Add another name to the list: Mallorca have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Arsen Zakharyan. The answer from Real Sociedad has not changed — yet.
Market5 Jul 2027
A season away well spent by Javi López
38 games, 0 goals, and a squad option that has arrived without a fee attached. The interesting question at Real Sociedad now is not whether he plays but who he displaces.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Aihen Muñoz has improved at 29, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
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Upbeat
Squad28 Jun 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Orri Óskarsson is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad28 Jun 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Real Sociedad this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Sergio Gómez has improved at 26, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
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Uneasy
Squad21 Jun 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Oviedo may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad21 Jun 2027
David Carmo 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 Oviedo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Álex Cardero is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
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Uneasy
Squad14 Jun 2027
Tempers go at Oviedo
Aarón Escandell 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.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Javi López 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.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Leon Ćuk has improved at 24, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 4 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Squad14 Jun 2027
The manager makes an example of Pablo Sáenz
“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.
Market14 Jun 2027
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Oviedo has been clear about where Francisco Portillo stands, which is more than many ever get.
Market14 Jun 2027
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
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Uneasy
Squad31 May 2027
Tempers go at Oviedo
David Carmo 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.
Squad31 May 2027
Javi López 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.
Squad31 May 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ovie Ejaria commits to Oviedo for another 3 years.
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Upbeat
Boardroom31 May 2027
Qualification is done, and next season the floodlights come on for something bigger. A stage for the players, oxygen for the accounts and a passport for everybody else.
Squad31 May 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Real Sociedad this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad31 May 2027
Words at Real Sociedad training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gonçalo Guedes 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.
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Uneasy
Squad10 May 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Oviedo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 May 2027
Words at Oviedo training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Javi López 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.
Match8 May 2027
Levante made Oviedo work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad10 May 2027
24 games in 245 appearances where nobody scored at all. A keeper's career is counted in nothing happening, and none of this happened by accident.
Player ratings10 May 2027
Jacobo runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings10 May 2027
Marked 7.89. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
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Uneasy
Squad3 May 2027
Tempers go at Oviedo
Aarón Escandell 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 May 2027
Words at Oviedo training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Santi Cazorla 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.
Match1 May 2027
Three points for Oviedo, 1‑0 the final word against Espanyol in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings3 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings3 May 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.18, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad3 May 2027
Luka Ilić 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.
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Uneasy
Player ratings26 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 31. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match24 Apr 2027
The wait goes on for Oviedo
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad26 Apr 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Oviedo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Santi Cazorla 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.
Player ratings26 Apr 2027
Marked 7.39 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Oviedo had the best player on the pitch.
Squad26 Apr 2027
The manager has not finished forgetting Alberto Reina'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.
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Uneasy
Squad19 Apr 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match17 Apr 2027
5 matches without a win for Oviedo
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Oviedo are no longer polite ones.
Squad19 Apr 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Oviedo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Words at Oviedo training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Javi López 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.
Squad19 Apr 2027
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Guilherme Guedes will call it something else in private.
Match17 Apr 2027
A 1‑1 draw with Real Madrid leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
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Steady
Squad29 Mar 2027
Tempers go at Oviedo
Santi Cazorla 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.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Javi López 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.
Squad29 Mar 2027
A late step up for Leon Ćuk
At 24 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
Squad29 Mar 2027
“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.
Player ratings29 Mar 2027
Marked 7.53 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Oviedo had the best player on the pitch.
Match27 Mar 2027
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Girona defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad8 Mar 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Santi Cazorla commits to Oviedo for another 2 years.
Squad8 Mar 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Oviedo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Words at Oviedo training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Javi López 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.
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
7.50, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Oviedo had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Squad8 Mar 2027
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Oviedo told Thiago Fernández something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
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Steady
Squad1 Mar 2027
Tempers go at Oviedo
Santi Cazorla 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.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Javi López 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.
Match27 Feb 2027
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Federico Viñas. 1‑0 against Celta, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings1 Mar 2027
Marked 7.78. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
Player ratings1 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad1 Mar 2027
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.
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Uneasy
Match30 Jan 2027
5 matches without a win for Oviedo
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Oviedo are no longer polite ones.
Match30 Jan 2027
Oviedo cannot find the net
4 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Words at Oviedo training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Santi Cazorla 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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Tempers go at Oviedo
Nacho Vidal 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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to David Carmo, and the manager let it.
Player ratings1 Feb 2027
Marked 7.24. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
Squad1 Feb 2027
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.
Match30 Jan 2027
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Sevilla defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
Player ratings1 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 11. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Steady
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 51. 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
“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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Oviedo
David Carmo 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.
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Crisis
Squad4 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Oviedo
Santi Cazorla 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Javi López 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.
Match2 Jan 2027
Barcelona left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad4 Jan 2027
“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.
Market4 Jan 2027
Elche are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Oviedo will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Squad4 Jan 2027
A place in the month's best eleven for Haissem Hassan
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Haissem Hassan has come out of that comparison in the side, and Oviedo have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
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Uneasy
Match12 Dec 2026
The wait goes on for Oviedo
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad14 Dec 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Oviedo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Words at Oviedo training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Javi López 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.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad14 Dec 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
The afternoon belonged to Javi López
A mark of 7.40, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
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Crisis
Squad23 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Oviedo
Santi Cazorla 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Javi López 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.
Match21 Nov 2026
A bad afternoon for Oviedo against Valencia
0‑1 to Valencia, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
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Steady
Squad16 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Oviedo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Santi Cazorla 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Oviedo know it.
Match14 Nov 2026
Nobody wins at Oviedo
8 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
Match14 Nov 2026
It finished 1‑0, and it was Haissem Hassan’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Oviedo.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Ninety minutes of Haissem Hassan at his very best
Marked 8.32. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Oviedo.
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Steady
Match31 Oct 2026
Still nobody has beaten Oviedo
The unbeaten run reaches 11. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad2 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Oviedo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words at Oviedo training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Javi López 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.
Match31 Oct 2026
It finished 2‑0, and it was Carlos Fernández’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Oviedo.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Marked 8.35 — 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“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.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 9 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
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Steady
Squad19 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Dani Villahermosa
28 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Oviedo lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 31. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match17 Oct 2026
Still nobody has beaten Oviedo
The unbeaten run reaches 9. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad19 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Oviedo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match17 Oct 2026
The goals have deserted Oviedo
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Oviedo can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at Oviedo training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Santiago Colombatto 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.
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Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Dani Villahermosa
35 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Oviedo lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 33. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match10 Oct 2026
Whatever happens, Oviedo do not lose
8 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Oviedo
Santi Cazorla 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Javi López 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“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.
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Steady
Match16 Sep 2026
Oviedo march on in the cup
Albacete are out and Oviedo go through, 2‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Squad21 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Oviedo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at Oviedo training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Javi López 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Jacobo was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.13. 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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes of Pablo Sáenz at his very best
Marked 8.04. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Oviedo.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Marked 7.30 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Oviedo had the best player on the pitch.
Squad21 Sep 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Match19 Sep 2026
Point won or two lost for Oviedo?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Sevilla? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
In brief
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Player ratings
A defender's afternoon for Lucas
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The terraces
The press have found their man in Aarón Escandell
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad7 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Oviedo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match5 Sep 2026
3 matches without a goal for Oviedo
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Oviedo training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Santiago Colombatto 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Dani Calvo 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Oviedo will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Marked 7.12. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
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Uneasy
Market31 Aug 2026
“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 Oviedo, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Oviedo
Santi Cazorla 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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Oviedo training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. David Carmo 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Federico Viñas
“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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A smaller club would suit Nacho Vidal now
He has had enough of the noise. Whether Oviedo can be a quieter place for him, or whether the only cure is a move somewhere the phone-ins are gentler, is a question for the next few months.
In brief
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Player ratings
Javi López takes the honours
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Match
Point won or two lost for Oviedo?
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Player ratings
David Carmo spends the afternoon fouling