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Following the resignation of Héctor Rivoira from the Huracán bench on Monday, the Parque
Patricios club have moved swiftly to find a replacement. They announced on Monday that they'd given
a contract to Miguel Ángel Brindisi, just over eight years ... Continue reading →
There's a clásico at La Bombonera on Saturday with Boca Juniors hosting San Lorenzo, and on Sunday
evening in the last match of the round, league leaders River Plate visit joint-second placed Vélez
Sarsfield, who've looked the most solid team ... Continue reading →
Friday evening's two games saw two firsts: Estudiantes de La Plata conceded their first goal of the
season in domestic competition, and Colón got their first win, at the fifth attempt. The
santafecinos beat Racing 2-1 in El Cilindro, thanks ... Continue reading →
Arsenal de Sarandí are the overnight leaders of the Torneo Apertura after beating defending
champions Argentinos Juniors 1-0 in Sarandí on Saturday afternoon. The big story, though, is that
Boca Juniors have lost again, this time at home to San ... Continue reading →
Vélez Sarsfield beat River Plate 2-1 in Sunday's big clash to leave Ángel Cappa's side off the
pace in the title race, and (for the first time this season) in the direct relegation spots of the
Promedio to boot. Vélez ... Continue reading →
The Torneo Apertura gathers apace on the back of the selección's impressive win on Tuesday over
Spain, and the return to domestic action is a suitably juicy one in spite of there being no
clásicos this weekend. Leaders Vélez Sarsfield ... Continue reading →
Colón de Santa Fe might have finally managed their first win of the season away to Racing last
week, but on Friday evening they found they're still unable to win in front of their own fans, with
a 1-1 draw ... Continue reading →
Saturday saw Godoy Cruz visit El Sur and smash Lanús 4-1 in their own stadium with no fewer than
three golazos. El Granate will be happy that that particular bad news day came on the same day that
Argentina's female ... Continue reading →
Champions Argentinos Juniors are still without a win this season after throwing away a lead at home
for the second time in this Torneo Apertura. This time the beneficiaries were Newell's Old Boys,
the rosarinos scoring twice in quick succession ... Continue reading →
My newest post has just gone up on In Bed With Maradona, looking over the biggest results of the
last weekend in the Torneo Apertura, and considering what some of the big clashes in the coming
round are likely to ... Continue reading →
No clásicos this week, but all the same the Torneo Apertura continues to heat up. Leaders
Estudiantes visit relegation battlers All Boys on Sunday (HEGS will be present), whilst
joint-leaders River and Vélez are also both away, to Newell's and ... Continue reading →
Two comfortable wins for the home sides in Friday's two matches left fans of Gimnasia La Plata and
Racing celebrating. Gimnasia's 3-0 win over Huracán was not only their first victory of the
season, but also brought the first goals ... Continue reading →
San Lorenzo went top of the Torneo Apertura standings on Saturday with an efficient 3-1 win over
Olimpo, coming from behind after the visitors had taken a first half lead. Later in the day, Tigre
got another win to continue ... Continue reading →
Sunday's matches began with another brilliant win for All Boys, who deservedly beat pre-weekend
league leaders Estudiantes 2-1 in Floresta in a thoroughly absorbing game I was there and that
match will be the subject of this week's Thoughts ... Continue reading →
Independiente's woeful start to the season has made Daniel Garnero the first manager of the 2010
Torneo Apertura to leave his post, after a meeting at which club president Julio Comparada was not
present. Sporting director César Luis Menotti also ... Continue reading →
It's becoming a veritable Black Monday in the Argentine Primera División. Daniel Garnero resigned
as Independiente manager this morning, and now he's been followed by Huracán manager Héctor
Rivoira, who took charge of this morning's training session before phoning club ... Continue
reading →
I'm a bit late with this, but here it is at last. Last weekend saw a lot of goals scored in the
first division, but in some ways perhaps the most important ones were scored in Floresta at the
clash ... Continue reading →
This weekend, we still have no clásicos but there are a number of tasty ties all the same.
Independiente will take a caretaker manager into their Friday night tie with Gimnasia; Nery Pumpido
has admitted he'll probably sign, but surely ... Continue reading →
Those HEGS readers who are living in London and, indeed, those who aren't are in for a special
treat today. From 9pm British Summer Time, you'll be able to enjoy the sound of my dulcet tones on
your ... Continue reading →
It's been a busy day. As well as making my radio debut (repeated on
http://www.resonancefm.com/listen tomorrow at 3:30pm UK time, or there's a podcast up in the next
couple of days for those who missed it earlier), I've also been ... Continue reading →
Independiente's caretaker manager Rivardo Pavoni celebrated the team's first win of the season on
Friday evening thanks to Leonel Galeano's 27th minute goal which consigned Gimnasia La Plata to
defeat. El Rojo won 1-0 in the Doble Visera to give ... Continue reading →
After last week's contrasting results, in which Estudiantes lost to All Boys and Boca convincingly
beat Colón, the celebrations switched on Saturday when Estudiantes beat Boca 1-0 thanks to a
Marcos Rojo strike in only the first minute of a ... Continue reading →
Those who didn't manage to listen in live (or on the repeat) to my UK radio debut for Resonance
FM's Cafe Calcio can now have the pleasure of listening to it whenever they please, as the podcast
of the show ... Continue reading →
River Plate were all set to go just one point off the lead of the Torneo Apertura on Sunday
evening, until former Boca Juniors midfielder Miguel Caneo popped up to head home a poorly-defended
free kick and earn Quilmes a ... Continue reading →
The fourth round of the Torneo Apertura 2010 finally came to an end four-and-a-half weeks after it
started on Wednesday afternoon, with Estudiantes' 2-0 victory over Gimnasia y Esgrima, which left
Gimnasia without a manager. Federico Fernández headed the Pincha ... Continue reading →
