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The sixteenth round of the Torneo Apertura is upon us, with San Martín taking on Olimpo in the
weekend's first match (if Olimpo don't win, they'll be relegated). Tomorrow, title challengers All
Boys (those are four words I never thought ... Continue reading →
Sunday's Torneo Clausura matches saw a couple of surprising results, and one spectacular return to
Argentine football. Olimpo beat Independiente 2-1 to record their first win in eleven attempts, and
Belgrano saw off Vélez Sarsfield 1-0 to reach 52 points ... Continue reading →
Saturday saw three matches in Argentina's Primera División. First of all, Estudiantes de La Plata
visited Banfield, with Juan Sebastián Verón playing for the second weekend in a row (and going
off injured for the second weekend in a row). ... Continue reading →
Saturday saw three matches in Argentina's Primera División. First of all, Estudiantes de La Plata
visited Banfield, with Juan Sebastián Verón playing for the second weekend in a row (and going
off injured for the second weekend in a row). ... Continue reading →
The fifteenth round of the 2012 Torneo Clausura starts shortly as Godoy Cruz host Argentinos
Juniors in Mendoza, and continues later tonight with Tigre taking on league leaders Newell's Old
Boys. Later in the weekend, San Lorenzo travel to Santa ... Continue reading →
This weekend sees the beginning of the endgame for the Argentine second division season; Nacional B
has only five matches left to go including this weekend, and with that the pressure builds on River
Plate to make their return to ... Continue reading →
There have been a few weekends low on drama during the 2012 Clausura. This hasn't been one of them.
Sunday's matches provided plenty of excitement, not least in Avellaneda and Rafaela. First, Lanús
beat Godoy Cruz 1-0 in Mendoza and ... Continue reading →
Saturday saw some interesting scores in the day's main matches. First, Arsenal de Sarandí played
Independiente in a match notable for the absence of the head figures in Independiente's barra
brava, barred from the game by the club's president. Arsenal won ... Continue reading →
Sunday's and Monday's matches in the Torneo Clausura and Nacional B (second division) saw some
interesting results. Argentinos Juniors' 0-0 draw with Atlético Rafaela wasn't one of them, and
Unión de Santa Fe beating Olimpo 2-0 didn't do much apart ... Continue reading →
Saturday's Primera División matches in Argentina saw Boca Juniors take a small lead over previous
joint leaders Newell's Old Boys. Newell's were held 1-1 by All Boys in Rosario, before Boca beat
Colón de Santa Fe 1-0 thanks to Santiago ... Continue reading →
The twelfth round of Torneo Clausura matches is upon us, and it's an early start to what is in
Argentina a long weekend (stretching from Saturday to Tuesday, believe it or not), as Estudiantes
and Vélez play each other in ... Continue reading →
Saturday's Torneo Clausura matches were a mixed bag. In what should have been one of the better
games of the weekend, Vélez Sarsfield and Lanús stank the place out in Liniers, drawing 0-0.
Colón beat Argentinos Juniors 1-0 to move ... Continue reading →
Sorry I've been silent since Thursday, folks. It's been a very busy weekend and I haven't been
sleeping at all well. All is looking up now though, so without further ado let's look back over the
weekend gone in Argentina's ... Continue reading →
The eighth round of the 2012 Torneo Clausura has seen its fair share of surprises and goals
already, and we're only halfway through. First of all, on Friday night, Belgrano surprised Lanús
away from home thanks to a late penalty, ... Continue reading →
The sixh round of the 2012 Torneo Clausura saw wins for Boca Juniors and both Avellaneda clubs
(yes, really!) among others, but the most eye-catching moment was during San Lorenzo's 1-1 draw
with Colón in Bajo Flores, when referee Diego ... Continue reading →
Friday's and Saturday's matches see us arrive at the halfway point of the fifth round of the 2012
Torneo Clausura having already seen some interesting results. San Lorenzo ensured Tigre won't be
able to catch them this weekend in the ... Continue reading →
Saturday's and Sunday's matches in the 2012 Torneo Clausura saw eleven goals, four victories and
only one side on six points at the end of the weekend (though it could be two by Monday night).
Lanús beat Independiente 1-0 away ... Continue reading →
The first round of the 2012 Torneo Clausura continued apace on Sunday, with four more matches. In
the first, Atlético de Rafaela beat a woeful Banfield 3-0 to creep closer to 30 points for the
season, and later on there ... Continue reading →
Boca Juniors became the third team in the history of the short championships to go unbeaten through
a campaign on Sunday, when a Darío Cvitanich header gave them a 1-0 win at home to All Boys in
their final Apertura ... Continue reading →
The forty-fifth episode of Hand Of Pod is introduced by Queens Park Rangers star Alejandro
Faurlín, and sees Sam, Seba and English Dan reflecting on Boca Juniors' title win the media bias,
the key players, the impressive record and ... 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 →
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 →
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 →
River Plate slipped up on Sunday, losing 2-0 to Atlético Tucumán on their return to the Estadio
Monumental after a five match ban from playing there. Luis Rodríguez and César Montiglio scored
the goals, one in each half. Having dominated ... Continue reading →
This is a later than usual summary, but it is timed nicely to coincide with the launch of the
Guardian's new Sports Network, of which HEGS is proud to be a part. Boca Juniors edged closer to
the title with a ... 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 →
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 →
It was inevitable, in spite of a certain lack of cohesion in their play to date, that at some point
River Plate were going to click and put in a good team performance, and that their opponents that
day were ... 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 →
In the thirty-fifth episode of Hand Of Pod Sam, Dan, Dan and Seba begin with a discussion of just
how much of a massive idiot Carlos Tevez is, and conclude with a reflection on Cristian Fabbiani's
suitability for the second division ... 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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
This week's Hand Of Pod is a sensible length, so rejoice! Sam, Australian Dan and Seba meet again,
and there are plenty of hot topics to get through. Santiago Silva has left Vélez Sarsfield for
Fiorentina, seriously damaging the champions' ... 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 twenty-ninth episode of Hand Of Pod is, as the milkmaid said to the parson, quite a whopper.
That's largely because Sam, Australian Dan and Seba have not one but two rounds of Torneo Apertura
matches to look back on, ... 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 →
Hasta El Gol Siempre is back, ladies and gents. I apologise for the long absence of any posts on
here since the Copa América final, but I've been just as busy working as I was during the Copa
itself, if not ... Continue reading →
The morning after the night before, River Plate are being forced to adjust to life as a Nacional B
institution. J.J. López is gone as manager, and might leave the club altogether. Ramón Díaz, who
watched the game on television ... Continue reading →
