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A dramatic afternoon's action in the Primera División has left Quilmes relegated, Gimnasia La
Plata and Huracán having to play a tie-breaker to decide who goes down and who gets a crack at the
relegation playoff, and River Plate in ... Continue reading →
Wednesday saw two key clashes in the relegation struggle in Argentina's Primera División. First,
in La Bombonera, Huracán and Gimnasia La Plata faced off in a one-match, winner-takes-all (or
rather, loser-gets-nothing) tie-breaker to decide who was relegated and who gets ... Continue
reading →
There's only one topic for this week's Hand Of Pod, and we make no apologies for that. Dan, Dan,
Seba and River fan Sam try to make some sense of what none of us quite thought would come to pass:
... Continue reading →
Sunday afternoon was bright and sunny in Buenos Aires, but there's a metaphorical black cloud
hanging over the Estadio Monumental as, against what everyone expected back at the start of the
Apertura, the unthinkable has actually come to pass: River ... 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 →
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 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 →
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 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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 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 →
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 →
