The Deportivo Lara Herald
Squad22 Mar 2027
Lucas Palavecino 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.
The terraces22 Mar 2027
Deportivo Lara supporters have found a favourite in Lucas Palavecino
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Lucas Palavecino has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match20 Mar 2027
Deportivo Lara find a way past Carabobo
Carabobo made Deportivo Lara work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings22 Mar 2027
Ronaldo Peña was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.55. 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.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Franco Carretero reaches 100 appearances
100 games in the shirt. Nobody sets out to build a record like that; it happens to a certain kind of player at a certain kind of club, and this town knows what it has.
Player ratings22 Mar 2027
Nothing got past Alejo Córdoba
18 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Tempers go at Deportivo Lara
Moisés González 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 dugout22 Mar 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.” Richard Rincon kept it short after the 2‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
The dugout22 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Luis Annese
“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.
In brief
- The dugout Franco Carretero asks for a word with the manager
- Player ratings Gabriel Benítez was immovable
- The dugout Charlis Ortíz Jr. has become a man the manager trusts