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Yes, the Apertura's only just finished (well, if you're an Arsenal or Gimnasia fan, it hasn't even
finished yet), but already the fixtures for the 2008 Torneo Clausura have been released, so here
they are for your interest and enjoyment. The dates given for each weekend, as ever, are all
Sundays - fixtures will be [.
Well, not quite in full, because there's little point in retyping the first weekend all over again.
But step right this way for a full list of who will be playing who on which weekend during the
Primera A Apertura.
The video of all the goals from the ninth round of the 2007 Torneo Apertura is online now, and can
be found here thanks to TN. As usual, read on for the full running order of that video, and my
personal favourite strikes from the weekend (dominated this week by Señores Denis and Belluschi),
courtesy [...]
All 29 of the goals from the sixteenth round of the Apertura can be seen right now thanks to TN by
clicking here. Read on as ever for the running order of this video for those who don't know which
kit is whose, as well as my personal favourite strikes of the week - including not [...]
The penultimate round of the championship begins with a relegation clash on Friday night when
Central host San Martín, and ends on Sunday with Vélez's visit to Independiente. By the time that
match kicks off, Argentina could have a new champion football team. Tigre's visit to Argentinos
and Lanús's visit to La Bombonera will be played [.
Once again, there was no River Plate this weekend, their home match with Newell's having been
postponed until further notice following the death of Gonzalo Acro last week. There were nine other
matches, though, and unlike last week they all saw goals, with a rather nice total of 24 all in.
After a two-week hiatus, Primera A football is back this weekend, with the title race entering its
endgame. Gimnasia will go into it a little disorientated, after manager Julio Falcioni announced he
won't be continuing in the post after the 2nd December, when the Apertura finishes. The big game is
the Avellaneda derby on Saturday, [.
And so, here it is. The wait is over. On Friday, the shouting stops and the 2007 Torneo Apertura
finally gets underway. Can Boca avenge their two narrow misses last season? Can River end their
trophy drought? Will San Lorenzo defend the title? All will be revealed in the next 19 rounds of
matches. We already have one [...]
Two big games this weekend - one is set to kick off in B Nacional as this post goes online, as
joint leaders San Martín de Tucumán and Quilmes clash in Tucumán. In Primera A, meanwhile,
bottom placed Central host Vélez, Lanús will be looking to crank up the pressure on Independiente
- the granate host San [...]
The video of the weekend's goals in the Primera A is online now, and you can see all 21 of them
thanks to TN simply by clicking here. As ever, read on for the running order to this video, and,
for those too lazy to sit through all of it, my personal favourite goals of [...]
There will be few changes to the usual weekly goal update for the new campaign. These are enforced
by the fact that TyCSports have now embedded their video in the homepage, minus the full screen
option, so I can't give you a direct link to the video file any more. So instead, we'll be linking
to [...]
The fourth round of the Torneo Apertura is upon us, as well as a fresh lot of fixtures in the lower
leagues. The main highlight of this weekend in the clash of last season's two champions: Apertura
winners Estudiantes host Clausura champions San Lorenzo. In B Nacional, meanwhile, the Córdoba
derby sees Instituto take on [...]
Yet again, River were pathetic away from home, albeit that Daniel Passarella sent out a virtual
reserve team to keep the main players safe for Sunday's superclásico. Independiente beat Olimpo
easily and Boca responded on Wednesday by winning the clásico against San Lorenzo, whilst there
was a last minute winner to a five goal thriller [...]
Twenty-one goals from this weekend's ten matches, and none of them came in Avellaneda, where Racing
and Independiente stank the place out in the Apertura's final clásico. Sunday was a helter-skelter
ride, with Boca slipping up but Lanús failing to take full advantage last thing in the evening -
the failure of both to pick [.
The most important score of the weekend, of course, was Lanús's 1-1 draw against Boca in La
Bombonera, which means they can break out the Queen CD in the dressing room for the first time in
their history. Elsewhere, though, Central also won a game, River took a pasting, and Independiente
and Vélez served up [.
I got home tonight and I had my order for 3 new jerseys waiting for me inside my door. They're from
a store in Argetina, soccer10shop.com. I got a Lanus jersey (champs and it's maroon... I mean,
off-burgandy). I also got Rosario Central. And I got a Banfield away jersey. They didn't have the
ol' 05 one I ordered so they replaced it at no extra cost with the new Banfield away jersey.
The fixtures for the opening weekend of the 2007 Apertura have been announced. For some reason,
they're not yet on the AFA's website, but they have made it onto those of the main news outlets.
The full fixtures for the campaign will be released soon, but for the first weekend ties, step this
way...
Boca's pre-season didn't continue as smoothly as they'd surely expected on Sunday, as they lost 3-1
to Mexican side Cruz Azul in the final of the friendly Copa Panamericana, in Phoenix, Arizona.
Having taken the lead through Mauro Boselli, they were clawed back by a fantastic free kick from
Israel López right at the end [...]
This Friday sees the start of the 2007 Primera A Torneo Apertura, with that long football-less
week-and-five-days since the World Youth Cup win finally over. But who are the teams? Where are
they from? Who manages them, what are their histories like and which are the main derby rivalries?
The superclásico's an easy one, of [...]
The goal videos for the second round of Apertura matches are online now, and as ever you can watch
them with a little help from HEGS. To view TN's video of all 24 of the weekend's goals, click on
this link, and for the running order of the clip, as well as my favourites of [...]
The third round of fixtures in the Primera A Apertura, and the second round of Primera B Nacional
fixtures, will be played this weekend, and can be seen (along with the other AFA-affiliated
divisions) here. The most notable fixture of the weekend is the season's first clash of two 'Big
Five' sides, when River travel [...]
The 17 goals from the third round of matches in the 2007 Primera A Tornero Apertura are online
now, and can be viewed on TN's website by clicking here. As ever, Gonzalo over at the wonderful
GolesTV has uploaded each goal individually, and if you read on, you'll find the full running order
for the TN [...]
It is, of course, only two days since week 4 ended, but the fifth round of matches in the Apertura
is taking place in mid-week. Team-news-wise, the biggest story right now is the future of Daniel
Passarella, who was rumoured to be on the verge of leaving River Plate following their away loss to
San [...]
The eighth round of the Torneo Apertura is to be played in midweek, on Tuesday and Wednesday of
this week. Central host fellow strugglers Gimnasia de Jujuy, leaders Independiente are at home to
Huracán - who were unbeaten two matches ago but have now lost twice on the trot - and
second-placed Boca host second-bottom [...]
Since I was unable to put up separate stories for them today, what follows is a bit of a bumper
post combining the usual Primera A scores and scorers rundown with the goal videos. There were 28
strikes in all, the most newsworthy coming in El Sur on Saturday and El Coloso del Parque on [...]
My holiday has resulted in not having the chance to post the fixture list for the midweek matches
any sooner than tonight, and as I type the second match of the round is already in progress. Colón
have already beaten Olimpo easily in Santa Fé, San Lorenzo visit Boca tomorrow in the round's
clásico, and [...]
The sixteenth round of matches saw both Copa Sudamericana finalists lose out due to rotation,
River's lingering hopes of a title finally extinguished thanks - once again - to their pathetic
away form and Arsenal getting spanked by Argentinos in the weekend's last match. Independiente let
a lead slide at home to Estudiantes and are [...]
The goals from the latest round of Apertura matches, including the one which gave Lanús their
historic title win, are online now, and can be seen through the TN website by clicking here. If you
read on you'll find the running order for this clip, as well as my personal favourite goals from
the weekend, [.
The final weekend of the 2007 Torneo Apertura is upon us in Primera A, and whilst the
championship's already been decided after two matches last Wednesday, there are some juicy ties to
send us off. Central, fresh from last week's win, host Argentinos, who are gunning for their
best-ever short tournament finish.
With the Gimnasia Jujuy vs. River Plate match postponed for a few weeks due to Daniel Passarella
throwing a hissy fit about the travel time involved, so soon after returning from South Korea's
Peace Cup, there were only nine matches to kick off the new season, and only two of those saw more
than two [...]
River Plate at long, long last dignified the Primera A Apertura with their presence on Sunday
afternoon. The inclusion of Ariel 'El Burrito' Ortega was a surprise, but it was a penalty from
him that ended up saving a point against defending champions San Lorenzo. Boca, on Sunday evening,
claimed their first win of the campaign, 1-0 [...]
Midweek matches are very disorienting. No sooner have we recovered from the glut of goals in round
5, than round 6 arrives to dizzy us all again. This weekend's main clash in the top flight is the
clásico between Racing and River, which is set to see mass protests from the home fans at the
[...]
Another round is over, and we've seen the last undefeated record in the top flight (Huracán's)
fall, other promoted sides claim important points and a clásico that finished all square and left
no-one really satisfied. Notable results in the lower divisions were Aldosivi's demolition job
against Independiente Rivadavia and Talleres' win over Instituto in this [.
Boca nearly went out on top on Sunday, looking like they were about to grab a draw in Santa Fé,
but the Elephants' Graveyard struck again and Colón won thanks to a late strike from Freddy
Grisales. Arsenal spanked San Lorenzo in the Nuevo Gasometro for the second time in five days,
Banfield came out on [...]
Boca returned to the top on Wednesday with an easy win at home against Olimpo. The previous day,
Tigre and Independiente had kept the pressure on them, going top one after the other by,
respectively, drawing with Newell's and beating Huracán. River played magnificently on Sunday, so
naturally were back to being rubbish on Wednesday, [...]
Germán Denis is at it again. Independiente travelled to Santa Fé to take on Colón on Saturday
and ran out 3-1 winners to take the outright leadership of the Apertura table (Boca, three points
behind, play on Sunday). Colón were coming off the back of three straight triumphs, one of which
was against Boca in [...]
The goals from round ten of the 2007 Torneo Apertura went online a little while ago, and you can
watch all 32 of them courtesy of TN simply by clicking here. Regular readers know the drill by now
- read on for the full running order of this video, as well as a few of [...]
Apologies for not putting these up sooner - the internet café I was in in Salamanca yesterday
didn't have the necessary plugins for me to able to watch the video myself and thus give the
running order. Anyway: Here, courtesy of TN, are 20 of the 21 goals from the fourteenth round of
matches in the Apertura. Colón [...]
Round 15 isn't actually over yet - Vélez vs. Argentinos is taking place as I type - but the TV
companies in Argentina always put out their weekend goal reviews on a Monday regardless,
apparently hoping the remaining match is goalless so that this is a complete review (a spoiler -
there's already been one scored). [...]
The temperature rises. Leaders Lanús have the easiest of tasks to really put the pressure onto the
chasing pack - on Friday night they'll play Rosario Central, and thus really won't have anyone but
themselves to blame if they're not six points clear before Boca kick a ball in anger this weekend.
Tigre will be [...]
