I really needed an early night on Monday, which is why the full scores from the final round of a
wonderful Torneo Apertura didn't go up as usual right after the last match. Monday's two games saw
only one goal Atlético Tucumán beat Gimnasia but you can watch it here all the same. [...]
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Sunday's matches were orderly in scoreline if nothing else: there were four 2-0 scorelines, all but
one of those going to the away side (Boca, who beat Banfield 2-0, were the only home victors but
their victims didn't care because they took the title anyway). Vélez Sársfield vs Rosario Central
was the sole exception [.
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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 [.
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The goals from Saturday's matches in the final round of the 2009 Torneo Apertura are online now,
and you can watch them below. Argentinos Juniors signed off the year in style with a 5-1 thrashing
of Huracán, who after such a promising first half to the year will be glad to see the back of
[...]
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The title race is going to the wire (both Banfield and Newell's will kick off at 17:00 local time
on Sunday), as is the final Copa Libertadores spot. Midweek rounds in the Argentine domestic league
always seem to be low scoring (maybe it's just my imagination, but...), and the highest scoring
match this week was [.
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The four goals from Wednesday night's matches in the 2009 Torneo Apertura are online now. You can
watch them right here the video is only a click away. San Lorenzo (navy & red stripes) vs Lanús
(maroon) Gimnasia LP (white & navy) vs Newell's (red & black halves) Banfield (green & white
stripes) vs Tigre (blue & [.
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Tuesday evening saw just three goals spread across the three games: Huracán and Boca drew 0-0;
Colón beat Godoy Cruz 1-0, whilst Independiente and Argentinos Juniors drew 1-1 in Avellaneda. You
can watch all of those goals plus a couple of brief highlights of Huracán vs Boca right here.
Huracán (white) vs Boca (navy [.
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Nothing's been decided yet, but Banfield are clearly the biggest beneficiaries of the weekend.
Their win on Friday combined with later losses for both Colón (at the hands of Atlético Tucumán)
and Newell's (to Arsenal) to leave El Taladro two points clear of Newell's with two games to go.
Elsewhere, Vélez beat River with two [.
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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 [.
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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 [.
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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).
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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 [.
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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.
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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 [.
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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 [.
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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.
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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 [.
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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 [.
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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.
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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 [.
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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.
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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.
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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 [.
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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 [.
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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 [.
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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 [.
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The game of musical chairs atop the Primera División gathers apace. Estudiantes, Banfield and
Newell's have all led the table at various points since Friday afternoon, but at the end of the
weekend it's Colón who are left looking down on the rest of Argentina, after a 2-1 win at home to
San Lorenzo courtesy [.
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We're now halfway through the Torneo Apertura, and two points separate 1st from 8th. How's the
AFA's playoff system going to work if everyone ends up on the same points total? San Lorenzo lead
after edging out Central on Friday evening, Racing and Gimnasia La Plata both lost on Saturday, and
Sunday saw Rolando Schiavi [.
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It was an intrigue-packed evening of football in Argentina on Thursday, in the eighth round of the
2009 Torneo Apertura. Colón went fourth with a performance full of golazos to beat Arsenal 4-1.
Shortly afterwards champions Vélez Sársfield, who haven't lost a single match at home in 2009,
ended Argentinos Juniors' unbeaten run with a [.
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Martín Palermo scored an amazing 45-yard header to win a five-goal bonanza in La Bombonera as Boca
Juniors became the first team this season to beat Vélez Sársfield. It's got the more excitable
elements of the Argentine press (which is to say, the Argentine press) insisting that he should
start for the selección.
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The weekend's clásico was a damp squib, with San Lorenzo and Racing cancelling each other out in
Boedo. Earlier on Sunday Newell's beat Lanús to go fifth, whilst on Saturday Chacarita's pointless
start to the season continued with a 3-1 defeat to Colón, and Independiente took a point from the
champions, Vélez Sársfield.
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The clásico del Sur was a happy one for Banfield, who ran out 2-1 winners away to Lanús. The
goals came from a Paraguayan and a Uruguayan, which could be the Argentine version of some sort of
'Englishman, Irishman, Scotsman' joke. Estudiantes beat Independiente late on, and in the first
half of the final match [.
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Tuesday night saw a home win at the Gigante del Arroyito, not that it'll be much consolation for
the majority of supporters of the selección. River Plate played ineptly and when Diego Buonanotte
gave the ball away in midfield, Rosario Central were able to break and score their second goal in
an eventual 2-1 win.
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River Plate began the Apertura as they mean to continue it, conceding a chaotic goal to Banfield
after just a minute and looking largely toothless in an attempt to get back into the game. Clausura
runners-up Huracán scored a cracker but still lost to Lanús, and Boca were 2-0 down at home to
Argentinos at [.
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