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On Friday night there was only one match in the 2011 Torneo Apertura, and it saw champions Vélez
Sarsfield visit Arsenal de Sarandí. After an entertaining first half, which saw both sides hit the
woodwork, had ended goalless, Arsenal held ... Continue reading →
Saturday's top flight football action in Argentina was restricted to just two matches, since the
bulk of the games will be played on Sunday and Monday for the ninth round of the Torneo Apertura.
Olimpo held Arsenal de Sarandí 2-2 ... Continue reading →
The 2011 Torneo Apertura got underway on Friday night, and Atlético Rafaela and Unión de Santa
Fe, two of the newly-promoted sides, were both in action, and both showed they'll be no pushovers
this season. Rafaela got things going with ... Continue reading →
The first round of the 2011 Torneo Apertura didn't end on Sunday (Independiente vs San Martín de
San Juan won't be played until the 7th September) but it closed for the time being with Boca
Juniors frustrated at a 0-0 ... Continue reading →
The second round of matches in the 2011 Torneo Apertura began on Monday with an easy away win for
Arsenal de Sarandí against newly-promoted Atlético Rafaela, and concluded with Boca Juniors'
first 4-0 win in nearly a year and a ... Continue reading →
Tuesday evening saw the continuation of the second round the 2011 Torneo Apertura in the Primera
División, and the conclusion of the first round of matches in the Nacional B (second round). San
Martín de San Juan beat Tigre 2-1, ... Continue reading →
The second round of matches in the 2011 Torneo Apertura ended on Wednesday night in Avellaneda,
where Colombian striker Teo Gutiérrez scored twice, missed a penalty and a couple of other decent
chances, and helped Racing to a 3-0 win ... Continue reading →
Saturday's Torneo Apertura action saw Lanús held away to new boys San Martín de San Juan, 0-0.
San Lorenzo had the better of Argentinos Juniors in the Nuevo Gasómetro, and although they needed
the help of a couple of fairly ... Continue reading →
The third round of the 2011 Torneo Apertura has now been completed, but I've been a little slow in
getting Sunday's and Monday's goals and the weekend's goalscorers and red carded players up here.
Boca Juniors, Vélez Sarsfield, Colón, Racing ... Continue reading →
Friday and Saturday's matches in the 2011 Torneo Apertura saw a few interesting results. None more
so than in Liniers, where All Boys claimed their second away win over Vélez Sarsfield since
promotion last year, winning 1-0. Atlético Rafaela beat ... Continue reading →
Sorry everyone. Sunday evening and the subsequent couple of days have been busy. Argentines Abroad
will be online on Wednesday, but first things first: it's very late on Tuesday night here, and I've
still not put the Sunday goals and the ... Continue reading →
Alejandro Sabella's first match in charge of the Argentine national team wasn't a walk in the park,
but brought a victory and a performance no-one had any particular complaints about. Against
Venezuela, one of the (many) shock teams of the ... Continue reading →
Saturday's matches saw Giovanni Moreno finally return to the Argentine Primera in the same stadium
he left off in, as he came off the bench in the second half for Racing away to All Boys. He
instantly improved Racing's game, ... Continue reading →
Sunday's matches in the Torneo Apertura began with another dull goalless draw, as Argentinos failed
to find a way past San Martín in San Juan. Thereafter, though, things got a bit more interesting,
with Atlético Rafaela beating Unión 1-0 away ... Continue reading →
Wednesday night saw two big matches in Argentina: Independiente vs San Martín de San Juan, left
over from the first round of the Torneo Apertura due to Independiente's pre-season trip to Japan,
and Godoy Cruz vs Lanús in the second ... Continue reading →
On Friday night, Atlético Rafaela and Newell's Old Boys got the sixth round of the 2011 Torneo
Apertura started with a goalless draw which means Rafaela could be overtaken at the top of the
league this weekend. Later on, Colón ... Continue reading →
Saturday's Torneo Apertura matches saw some vastly differing margins of victory. To start off,
Godoy Cruz fell a goal down and were thoroughly second best for the first half hour of their match
against All Boys, before roaring back to ... Continue reading →
There were four matches in the 2011 Torneo Apertura on Sunday, and for a change none of them ended
in draws. Arsenal de Sarandí got an away win over Banfield, 1-0, in Ricardo La Volpe's first match
in charge of ... Continue reading →
Monday night saw Lanús round off the sixth round of the 2011 Torneo Apertura with a crushing 4-0
win away to Argentinos Juniors which saw them go joint top of the table along with Boca Juniors on
fourteen points with ... Continue reading →
I've got all the videos from the weekend's 2011 Torneo Apertura action for you at once today, due
in part to laziness and in part to business over the weekend (round eight will be played in
midweek, which has meant ... Continue reading →
Tuesday afternoon saw the start of the ninth round of the 2011 Torneo Apertura, with Arsenal de
Sarandí hosting All Boys a match which provided the day's only win. All Boys took a 2-0 lead
through two goals from ... Continue reading →
Wednesday's and Thursday's matches in the 2011 Torneo Apertura saw little resolved in the race for
the title other than the confirmation that Boca Juniors are the team to chase. Lanús dropped
points for the second round running, Godoy Cruz ... Continue reading →
The 2011 Torneo Apertura saw three draws on Sunday, and two away wins. Vélez Sarsfield ended their
long winless run with a 1-0 away victory over Independiente in the first match of the day (kicking
off at 11am!), and in ... Continue reading →
Friday and Saturday only saw three top flight matches in Argentina, but they were significant all
the same. On Friday night, Argentinos Juniors claimed their first victory of the season, at the
tenth attempt, beating Belgrano 2-1 away from home ... Continue reading →
Sunday's and Monday's matches in the Primera División ended with Boca Juniors now five points
clear at the top of the league after Racing failed to go into second. Racing were held 1-1 in the
clásico de Avellaneda after taking ... Continue reading →
San Lorenzo de Almagro got a 1-0 win over Banfield on Friday evening that lifts some of the
pressure that was coming down on manager Omar Asad's head, thanks to a goal from Juan Manuel
Salgueiro halfway through the second ... Continue reading →
Saturday's matches in the Primera División saw mixed fortunes for Avellaneda's two clubs.
Independiente got a win to lift some of the gloom following the midweek Copa Sudamericana exit, and
later on Racing drew 0-0 with San Martín de San ... Continue reading →
The eleventh round of the 2011 Torneo Apertura concluded on Sunday with a 2-1 win for Clausura
champions Vélez Sarsfield over the the team they pipped to the title, Lanús. Earlier in the day,
Estudiantes had seen off Atlético Rafaela ... Continue reading →
The twelfth round of the 2011 Torneo Apertura has been a poor one for the title race, with Boca
Juniors moving on to 28 points and Racing missing a chance to keep on their tails with a 1-1 draw
against ... Continue reading →
Saturday saw Argentinos Juniors claim a comfortable win over Vélez Sarsfield by three goals to one
in La Paternal; it was only Argentinos' second win of the season, and almost certainly puts the
final nail in the coffin of Vélez's ... Continue reading →
Boca Juniors have now opened up a nine point advantage in the title race for the 2011 Torneo
Apertura, beating their closest challengers Atlético Rafaela 3-1 on Sunday before seeing Racing
held 0-0 by Estudiantes on Monday. Elsewhere, Lanús beat ... Continue reading →
On Friday, the fourteenth round of the 2011 Torneo Apertura saw three draws from as many matches,
and by three different scorelines at that; 0-0, 1-1 and 2-2. The goalless draw was between promoted
sides Atlético de Rafaela and Belgrano, ... Continue reading →
This weekend, of course, sees no regularly scheduled matches in the Primera División in Argentina,
due to the international break for the World Cup qualifiers. We have, however, had the delayed
match from the thirteenth round played between San Lorenzo ... Continue reading →
Tigre beat Newell's Old Boys by a goal to nil on Friday afternoon, to keep their battle against
relegation alive and, incidentally, move joint second of the 2011 Torneo Apertura (albeit
temporarily). Carlos Casteglione got the goal with nine minutes ... Continue reading →
I've had a fun-packed weekend (okay, there was a bit of a hangover involved as well) and the
fifteenth round of the Torneo Apertura only ended on Monday night. These two facts have combined to
result in my not getting ... Continue reading →
The 2011 Torneo Apertura matches on Friday and Saturday have seen a number of eye-opening results.
First, on Friday, Tigre beat Atlético Rafaela 3-0 at home and, astonishingly given where they were
at the start of the season, climbed out ... Continue reading →
Boca Juniors moved nine points clear with just nine to play for in the 2011 Torneo Apertura table
on Sunday, meaning they need just one more point from their remaining three matches to claim their
first league title in three ... Continue reading →
Friday's and Saturday's matches in the 2011 Torneo Apertura have seen no shortage of goals, and as
expected, one postponed match San Lorenzo v Tigre will now be played on Monday at 20:30, for the
reasons outlined in this ... Continue reading →
After Sunday saw Boca Juniors win the title, Monday saw a match that could prove just as important
come the end of the season (i.e. Clausura); the relegation battle between San Lorenzo and Tigre.
The resurgent visitors were beaten by ... Continue reading →
The penultimate round of matches in the 2011 Torneo Apertura started on Tuesday with a fairly dull
few games. Olimpo and Estudiantes played out a dull goalless draw, and in the four matches as a
whole there were only three ... Continue reading →
