Brian Cipenga

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Almería
16 Feb 2027
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16 Edition

The Almería Gazette

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad16 Nov 2026

Óscar De Marcos 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 Almería this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match14 Nov 2026

6 unbeaten for Almería

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Almería did not have in the autumn.

Player ratings16 Nov 2026

Adrián Embarba runs at them all day

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.

Match14 Nov 2026

Almería find a way past Málaga

Málaga made Almería work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad16 Nov 2026

Words at Almería training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Daijiro Chirino 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 ratings16 Nov 2026

Ninety minutes of Jon Morcillo at his very best

Marked 8.25. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Almería.

The dugout16 Nov 2026

Brian Cipenga 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 dugout16 Nov 2026

Ignacio Rodríguez has his say

“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Ignacio Rodríguez on a 1‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.

The dugout16 Nov 2026

Somebody else is better right now than Gaspar Iñíguez

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.

In brief

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10 Edition

The Almería Gazette

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match3 Oct 2026

Almería tear Granada apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 4‑1 against Granada, and it could have been more.

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

Dani Díaz, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 8.34

A mark of 8.34 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

Vintage Adrián Embarba — 8.06

At 34 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.06, and nobody on the pitch better.

Match3 Oct 2026

Nobody wants to play Almería right now

4 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.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Words exchanged at Almería

Óscar De Marcos 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.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Daijiro Chirino 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 ratings5 Oct 2026

Ninety minutes of Sergio Arribas 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 Almería.

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

Jon Morcillo was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.10. 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.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Mikel Vesga slips down the pecking order

The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Mikel Vesga is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.

In brief