The thirteenth round of the Torneo Apertura sees the first weekend round to hang over to Monday night (not counting the twelfth round which lasted through til Tuesday due to the previous round only having finished on the Thursday before). Joint leaders Newell's and Banfield are at home River and away to San Lorenzo respectively, [.

Boca Juniors beat Chacarita Juniors by three golazos to nil (losing Juan Román Riquelme to a foot injury until 2010 in the process), and Lanús dismembered Tigre in El Sur, but the big story of Thursday was River Plate's 2-1 victory over Argentinos Juniors the Núñez giants' first away win in 17 attempts, with [.

The twelfth round of the Torneo Apertura 2009 got underway on Saturday, and I'm afraid to say, following the midweek round of matches and the fact I was out on Friday night, that it caught me out. On Saturday, champions Vélez hosted and brushed aside Godoy Cruz, before Racing Racing! gave Atlético Tucumán [.

Saturday's matches saw Newell's Old Boys return to the top of the table with a 2-1 home win over River Plate in which, not for the first time, Diego Buonanotte gave the visitors their only joy of the match. A little later, Atlético Tucumán ended a run of eight matches without a win, thrashing Tigre [.

Following Newell's Old Boys' victory over River Plate on Saturday, the other sides hoping to keep up in the race for the title had to win on Sunday, and two of them managed it. Banfield overcame San Lorenzo 1-0 in Boedo for their first win away to El Cuervo in 13 years, and Estudiantes brushed [...]

The thirteenth round of the 2009 Torneo Apertura ended on Monday night with a late, late goal from Arsenal de Sarandí midfielder Diego Galván which clinched a point for El Arse after they'd trailed for practically the entire second half to Huracán. Angel Cappa's team were thus denied a third win of the campaign.

The goals from the tenth round of the 2009 Torneo Apertura are online now, but the people at the TN Sportblog are obviously Colón fans still hungover from seeing their team go top on Sunday evening, because they've not updated their site since before the superclásico. You can watch the goals right here though, embedded [.

The goals from the eleventh round of the Torneo Apertura 2009 are online now, and you can watch all 29 of them right here on HEGS, along with a running order of matches for those who aren't sure which clubs play in which colours. Step this way... Running order for Show de Goles: Newell's (red & black [.

The goals from the thirteenth round of the 2009 Torneo Apertura are online now, and you can watch them right here on HEGS. Read on for the goal video, as well as the lowdown on which teams are wearing which coloured shirts, for those unfamiliar with the kits. Running order: Argentinos (red) vs Central (blue & yellow [.

Due to the AFA's complete inability to comprehend that some of us are running blogs about their league in our spare time from a time zone three hours ahead and rather enjoyed having not much to do on a Monday evening, Monday afternoon and evening matches begin in earnest this week. Rodrigo Archubi, found guilty [.

The fourteenth round of the Torneo Apertura ended on Monday. Relegation strugglers Racing claiming a hard-fought win over the champions of South America, Estudiantes de La Plata, thanks to a goal from a former Estudiantes player. Estudiantes' city rivals Gimnasia tore Huracán to shreds, running out 4-1 winners in a match which saw two superb [.

Over the course of the 2009 Torneo Apertura, the mantra of fútbol para todos has transmogrified into something meaning that one easily embeddable, easily findable goal video for the whole round has become increasingly hard to find. The closest I can find are the four videos embedded here, which viewed in order will give you [.

The goals from Saturday's matches are now online, and there are some true golazos among them, not least from Darío Gandín for Independiente and two magnificent free kicks in one match: the first from Chacarita Juniors' Emanuel Centurión and the other, cancelling it out, from Sebastián Longo of Atlético Tucumán.

The meaningful bits of the clásico rosarino on Sunday had all taken place before the match was even half an hour old, but whilst it lasted it was an absolute cracker. Two goals in one minute put Central ahead against the hosts in El Coloso Del Parque after just twelve minutes, but Newell's, fighting [.

Argentinos and Arsenal drew on Monday, and with four matches remaining the picture in the title race is only a little clearer. Banfield sit top, two points clear of Newell's Old Boys. Estudiantes, in spite of their win on Friday night, are six points behind the leaders in third, Colón a point further back than [.

Sunday's matches saw San Lorenzo comfortably beat Boca Juniors in the clásico, after which Vélez claimed a win by the same scoreline (3-0) away to Tigre on a veritable bowling green of a pitch. There was even time for a shock: Racing visited league leaders Banfield and won, 2-1. Three games, nine goals; you can [.

In the Estadio Florencia Sola they're celebrating along with those in the upper tier of La Bombonera. Banfield may have lost to Boca Juniors, but for the first time in their 113 year history, they're champions of Argentina thanks to San Lorenzo's 2 0 win away to Newell's Old Boys which ended the lingering [.

Barely has the dust settled from the tenth round, so full of action that the superclásico was all but forgotten about by anyone reasonable, than the next round of matches is starting. It's a big round for both Avellaneda clubs: Newell's host Racing on Tuesday afternoon for some reason Racing's new manager, Lothar Matthäus [.

Tuesday and Wednesday have seen some decent games in the midweek round of the Torneo Apertura, with Estudiantes regaining top spot with a 2-1 away win over Godoy Cruz on Tuesday, hours after champions Vélez moved into sixth (two points off the top) with a 2-1 win over Atlético Tucumán that came thanks to a [.

Monday evening's matches saw Banfield claim a 2-1 victory at home to Estudiantes, and Newell's grab a late win by the same scoreline away to Tigre. With these results, both teams go joint top with 26 points, two ahead of champions Vélez and three ahead of Estudiantes and San Lorenzo. Colón could go joint third [.

Banfield and Newell's lead the table with Argentine champions Vélez, South American champions Estudiantes, Colón and Diego Simeone's San Lorenzo in the chasing pack. River Plate and Boca Juniors both lost again, whilst Racing won in style. All the heroes and villains are here as ever. Read on... Primera División Torneo Apertura 2009, twelfth round: Vélez Sársfield (F.

Due to December's Club World Cup in the United Arab Emirates, the Torneo Apertura eighteenth round match between Central and Estudiantes de La Plata was moved forward to last night in order to avoid a fixture clash later in the year for the South American champions. Taking their eye off the ball, Estudiantes played dreadfully [.

In probably the most unexpected development of the domestic league's fourteenth round, River Plate played with spirit and intelligence to overturn a deficit and actually win a football match on Sunday afternoon. 1-0 down after only two-and-a-half minutes at home to Atlético Tucumán, it looked like the same old story for River.

It's been a funny old year for Ángel Cappa and Huracán. After a storming Torneo Clausura in which they were robbed of the title only on the last day by some appalling officiating, they've fallen away drastically in the second half of the year. Cappa tried to resign last week, but the players talked him [.

HEGS has lost a little of its news value lately due to diminishing spare time on my part, so as of today I'm going to try and remedy that slightly. As Thursday turns into Friday at the start of each round from now on, I'll be giving a quick rundown of some of the main [...]

The title race gathers pace. At the top, joint leaders Banfield visit Independiente, who will move to within three points with a win. Fellow pace-setters Newell's Old Boys are at home in the clásico rosarino, perhaps the country's most passionate. Third- and fourth-placed sides both play tonight: Colón are away to Lanús, prior to which [.

The lack of a single video featuring all the weekend's goals last week meant that the round 14 goals post was a rather fragmented one. From now on, then, I'll be posting each day's goals the following afternoon or evening, when they're online (I've been a bit slow this first time, I admit). This will: [.

There were ten goals spread across three matches on Sunday, as the clásico rosarino finished all square, Boca Juniors thrashed Gimnasia La Plata with goals from Gary Medel, Osvaldo Gaitán and a double from Federico Insúa, and River Plate claimed a draw away to Godoy Cruz, with Mauro Rosales scoring again following his recent return [.

Following the misery of having lost the clásico to San Lorenzo on Saturday, it was announced on Sunday the same day that there was trouble prior to the Rosario derby by prosecutor Walter López that the Estadio Tomás A. Ducó would be closed provisionally whilst an investigation is underway into incidents prior to [.

Completing the goal videos from the fifteenth round of action in the Torneo Apertura, we've got the strikes from Monday evening's two matches. Argentinos and Arsenal drew 1-1, before Vélez having given their opponents a head start with an own goal thrashed Racing 4-2. Watch all eight of the goals right here.

In the second midweek match (the first was a couple of weeks ago) designed to prevent a fixture pile-up for Estudiantes de La Plata due to their Club World Cup appearance in December, the champions of South America did the same as in the last one they lost. And by defeating the Copa Libertadores [.

Yes, it really is that late in the campaign already. Four matches remain (except for Estudiantes, Central and Colón) and perhaps four or five teams are still in with a realistic title shot. This weekend Independiente will be the latest team to hand Huracán a beating, Chacarita host Godoy Cruz in a relegation clash, [.

Huracán lost yet again, this time 2-0 away to Independiente on Friday night. El Rojo scored in the first minute of the second half, and again near the end, first through Leonel Galeano and then through a solo effort from Darío Gandín. The storm, though, is elsewhere. On the day that Atlético Tucumán drew 1-1 [.

Saturday's matches saw Chacarita Juniors claim their fourth win of the season, over Godoy Cruz, thanks to a winning goal from Diego Morales which came four minutes into stoppage time. And in Núñez, River Plate drew with Estudiantes courtesy of another show-stopping return to action and stoppage time goal from Ariel Ortega.

On Monday evening, Newell's claimed a win over Colón only their fifth ever away to their provincial rivals which lifts them to the top of the table hours before one of their former youth products, Lionel Messi, was named European Footballer Of The Year (more of which on Wednesday in Argentines Abroad).

The goals from the final day of the sixteenth round of the 2009 Torneo Apertura are online now. You can see the crucial points of Newell's narrow away win over Colón (only their fifth ever), Argentinos' edging out of Gimnasia and Lanús's extraordinary last-ten-minutes thrashing of Arsenal right here.

Going into the seventeenth round of fixtures in the Torneo Apertura, here's a brief rundown of what's been going on off the pitch in the last few days. Estudiantes, of course, leave for the UAE to take part in the Club World Cup this weekend, and they played their final domestic match of the year [..

The right combination of results this weekend could see Newell's all but secure the title, or at least ensure that they and Banfield will be the only teams left in the title hunt going into the last two rounds of matches. Estudiantes' domestic 2009 is already over they drew 0-0 with Chacarita Juniors last [.

Friday evening's matches saw Godoy Cruz and Rosario Central battle to a draw which doesn't suit either team tremendously, and Racing get a win over Tigre thanks to a great finish from Sebastián Grazzini. In the other match, Banfield travelled to Huracán and got a 1-0 win courtesy of a shot from Santiago Silva (who [.

San Lorenzo lost 2-1 to Argentinos Juniors on Saturday, and just as I type this Boca Juniors have lost at home to Independiente by the same score. River Plate don't even play until tomorrow, but their bitter rivals losing matches isn't the best news of the day for them. Because on Saturday night the votes [.