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Sunday's biggest match in Argentina saw Martín Palermo a goal from a brilliant header in his final
superclásico, and Boca Juniors win 2-0 aided by an uncharacteristic error from River Plate
goalkeeper Juan Pablo Carrizo in La Bombonera. Sunday's most ... Continue reading →
This weekend, no issues can be resolved, but a lot might become a little clearer. Two of the
title-chasers meet on Monday, when Vélez Sarsfield, licking their wounds from their Copa
Libertadores semi-final elimination, host Godoy Cruz. Gimnasia and Racing ... Continue reading →
Argentinos Juniors and Estudiantes de La Plata played out a dull 0-0 draw in La Paternal on Monday
evening, but the best entertainment of the night was, fittingly, to come later, when all of the top
three were in action ... Continue reading →
Saturday's two games in the Torneo Clausura turned into only one game, thanks to a firefight
outside Newell's Old Boys' ground in Rosario which left one policeman wounded. The gunfight was
between members of Newell's barra brava, and it's not ... Continue reading →
The penultimate weekend of the 2011 Torneo Clausura will probably see a few issues resolved with
the relegation dogfight as mentioned yesterday, a number of sides can, if the results go the right
way, escape the thread of the ... Continue reading →
A dramatic weekend's action ended in Argentina with Martín Palermo's final match at La Bombonera
as Boca Juniors drew 1-1 with Banfield, but although that got more of the headlines and TV
coverage, Vélez Sarsfield are the biggest winners of ... Continue reading →
The eighteenth and penultimate round of the 2011 Torneo Clausura ended on Monday night with Racing
storming into a 2-0 lead courtesy of two goals from the Clausura's new top goalscorer Teófilo
Gutiérrez (his first came after just 43 seconds), ... Continue reading →
The final round of the 2011 Torneo Clausura is upon us in Argentina, and with it an historic day.
Never before since the short championships were introduced in 1992 have we gone into the final day
without a single one ... Continue reading →
The final round of the 2011 Torneo Clausura is upon us in Argentina, and with it an historic day.
Never before since the short championships were introduced in 1992 have we gone into the final day
without a single one ... Continue reading →
Monday saw River Plate's squad travel to Córdoba for the first leg of their relegation playoff
against Belgrano de Córdoba. River will be without Diego Buonanotte, who was given a plaque by
president Daniel Passarella before Saturday's game in what ... Continue reading →
The second round the Torneo Apertura has already kicked off I'm afraid, thanks to my laziness in
starting work today. As I type, Arsenal de Sarandí have just beaten Atlético Rafaela. Later in
the week we'll have Boca Juniors at ... Continue reading →
'What's this?!' I hear you cry. 'Hasn't the second round of matches only just finished?' Yes, dear
reader, it has, but here in Argentina that doesn't really matter. This weekend is a long one
(Monday is a bank holiday, I ... Continue reading →
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 Clausura is finally upon us, complete with a suitably nationalistic nametag from
the government/AFA. This short championship will be known as the Torneo Clausura Néstor Kirchner
Copa Malvinas Argentinas, just to remind us Brits in Buenos Aires ... Continue reading →
Monday evening saw the final two matches of the first round of the 2011 Torneo Clausura, and Lanús
vs Arsenal de Sarandí turned unexpectedly into a thriller in the closing stages. Mauro Camoranesi
made his debut for the hosts, and ... Continue reading →
The second round of the 2011 Torneo Clausura features a right old ding-dong in Avellaneda, with a
Juan Román Riquelme-less Boca Juniors travelling to a Giovanni Moreno-less Racing Club. HEGS will
be watching from the press box for the first ... Continue reading →
San Lorenzo and Arsenal de Sarandí both got three points on Monday evening in the final matches of
the second round the 2011 Torneo Clausura. Both ought to be there or thereabouts at the top of the
table come the ... Continue reading →
In the ninth episode of Hand Of Pod, Sam, Dan, Dan and Seba talk about River Plate and Olimpo, the
league leaders who are also battling against relegation. The non-Argentines also field a question
on how they came to support ... Continue reading →
The fourth round of the 2011 Torneo Clausura features not one but two clásicos, two potentially
tricky assignments for the joint leaders, and a tall task for Boca Juniors to try and get into
their stride. They visit Vélez, whilst ... Continue reading →
Arsenal hosted Independiente in Sarandí on Monday night in the final match of the fourth round of
the 2011 Torneo Clausura, and the result, yet again, was a loss for the Avellaneda giants.
Independiente are now closing in on a ... Continue reading →
This weekend sees underwhelming Vélez Sarsfield visit high-flying River Plate (it seems odd to be
writing it that way round, but I'll be at the game on Sunday), Racing visit Colón and a clásico
to make the mouth water in ... Continue reading →
The weekend's games from the fifth round of the 2011 Torneo Clausura are only getting written up
all together now, due to my housewarming on Saturday night. Saturday saw Boca Juniors lose away to
San Lorenzo in the weekend's clásico, ... Continue reading →
Independiente hadn't won a match in fourteen league games before Monday evening, but finally
managed it at the fifteenth time of asking after flying into a 3-0 half time lead at home to
Newell's Old Boys, adding a fourth in ... Continue reading →
There were no matches on Friday evening this week, but the sixth round of the 2011 Torneo Clausura
sees afternoon (rather than early evening) kick offs return now that the worst of the Argentine
summer is over. Quilmes and Independiente, ... Continue reading →
Saturday's games in the 2011 Torneo Clausura saw exactly two goals each, with two 2-0 scorelines,
and two 1-1. In Sarandí, Arsenal and River drew on Juan Pablo Carrizo's return to the River goal,
although Juampi himself put in an ... Continue reading →
Monday evening saw the sixth round of the 2011 Torneo Clausura come to an end with a rare win for
Gimnasia La Plata, at home to Tigre it's only the fifth match they've won since the start of the
... Continue reading →
The Torneo Clausura pattern returns to normal this weekend, with two games on Friday and none on
Monday, now that daytime kick offs are once again allowed by the players' union with the return of
autumn to Buenos Aires. The ... Continue reading →
After six matches of stubborn refusal, Boca Juniors manager Julio César Falcioni finally caved in
and sent a team out built around playmaker Juan Román Riquelme on Sunday night. He was rewarded,
in the midst of a fairly drab match ... Continue reading →
The eighth round of the 2011 Torneo Clausura is upon us. Gimnasia (whose fans are pictured above
from our Flickr group, rolling up to Huracán's stadium) host Independiente in the weekend's first
match. Olimpo have a very tough assignment if ... Continue reading →
I've been lazy about uploading the goal videos after each day's play this weekend, so in this
bumper post you'll find every one of the twenty-six goals scored in Argentina's top flight this
weekend, including both River Plate with ... Continue reading →
The ninth round of the 2011 Torneo Clausura is already underway as I type, with Estudiantes and San
Lorenzo two title contenders currently drawing 0-0 at half time in Quilmes' stadium (Estudiantes'
ground is still being cleared up ... Continue reading →
Argentina's two giants had weekends of stark contrast: Estudiantes' draw on Friday combined with
River Plate's 1-0 win over Banfield on Saturday leaves the Millonarios top of the Clausura table on
their own, whilst Boca Juniors, after two straight, Riquelme-inspired ... Continue reading →
The tenth round of the 2011 Torneo Clausura gets underway in a few hours' time when Quilmes host
Newell's Old Boys. If it will be hard to avoid the temptation to give that one a miss (they've
looked by some ... Continue reading →
Sunday's 2011 Torneo Clausura matches saw twelve goals and four draws, with not a single victor.
Even River Plate, who as a result will again finish the weekend on top of the table, can't
celebrate too much; a goalless draw ... Continue reading →
The eleventh round of the 2011 Torneo Clausura took a day off on Good Friday, and runs from
Saturday to Monday this week, very inconveniently for Hand Of Pod. New league leaders Vélez
Sarsfield are at home to Quilmes on ... Continue reading →
Sunday's Torneo Clausura matches saw Martín Palermo score for Boca Juniors once more, after a
personal worst of 951 minutes without a goal, as his side beat Huracán 3-0 away from home. As well
as that, there was a 1-1 ... Continue reading →
Monday night saw the last match of the eleventh round of the 2011 Torneo Clausura, and after the
sides around them in Argentina's relegation dogfight had for the most part dropped points over the
weekend, Olimpo de Bahía Blanca did ... Continue reading →
It's a weekend packed full of derbies in Argentina, this one. No fewer than four of the ten top
flight matches being played in this round are clásicos, with all of the 'Big Five' being involved
in one: San Lorenzo ... Continue reading →
Friday night's games might not have seen any of this weekend's four clásicos, but the second was
one of the best matches we're likely to see this year, as Quilmes came back from behind to win a
knife-edge match for ... Continue reading →
