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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 →
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
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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 →
Saturday's goals from the 2011 Torneo Clausura are online now, including Godoy Cruz's 1-0 win over
All Boys in the day's late game. There were seventeen goals in all over the six matches played, and
if you're not sure where ... 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 →
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 →
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 weekend's games in the 2011 Torneo Clausura have left things very tight at the top of the
Clausura table, thanks to Tigre's home victory over league leaders Vélez Sarsfield. Vélez rested
a lot of their first-choice players ahead of ... Continue reading →
For the second match in a row, River Plate goalkeeper Juan Pablo Carrizo made a howler to blow his
side's chance of a win, making a complete hash of pushing a seemingly harmless long-range shot over
the crossbar to gift ... Continue reading →
Saturday's games in the 2011 Torneo Clausura saw relegation-threatened pair Olimpo and
Independiente both win their matches. Olimpo's win over Argentinos Juniors, in particular, shifts
the pressure to one of Argentina's giants, River Plate, who go into Sunday's clásico against San
... Continue reading →
Friday evening's games in the 2011 Torneo Clausura saw the recent brouhaha over refereeing
standards in Argentina deepen. Godoy Cruz were playing away to Banfield and needed a win to keep up
the pressure on league leaders Vélez Sarsfield. They ... Continue reading →
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 →
Racing Club won for the second match in a row to put their recent bad form well and truly behind
them on Saturday, with Teófilo Gutiérrez bagging a double in a 3-0 win over Newell's Old Boys in
Avellaneda. Gimnasia ... Continue reading →
Vélez Sarsfield extended their lead in the Torneo Clausura to four points over second-placed Godoy
Cruz on Monday night with a comfortable 2-0 win over Banfield in Liniers. With the first team
recovering from last Thursday's high-altitude long-distance trip to ... Continue reading →
One week to the day before they meet in La Bombonera in the first competitive superclásico of the
year, River Plate and Boca Juniors had very different weekends in the 2011 Torneo Clausura. River,
needing a win to keep up the ... Continue reading →
Godoy Cruz recovered from their 4-1 mauling at the hands of Arsenal de Sarandí last weekend by
beating Newell's Old Boys 3-1 in Rosario on Friday night to move back into contention in the Torneo
Clausura. On Saturday, Quilmes failed ... Continue reading →
Monday evening's matches in the 2011 Torneo Clausura ended with Lanús fifth in the table, and Boca
Juniors and Independiente getting a 1-1 draw in La Bombonera that won't really satisfy either team.
Martín Palermo scored for Boca and youngster ... 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 →
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 →
Saturday was a day of unexpected results in the 2011 Torneo Clausura. Not one home side managed to
win in the five matches played, with Banfield, Colón, Quilmes and Godoy Cruz all winning away, and
All Boys scoring twice in ... Continue reading →
This is around 20 hours late, but last night Vélez Sarsfield went top of the 2011 Torneo Clausura
after winning their postponed match against San Lorenzo 2-0 in an empty Bombonera. Goals from
Santiago Silva and Augusto Fernández sealed the ... 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 →
Saturday was a momentous day in the 2011 Torneo Clausura. For one thing, Racing Club's recent luck
against hated rivals and near neighbours Independiente changed, and they deservedly claimed a 2-0
win in the clásico de Avellaneda, with goals from ... 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 →
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 →
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 →
River Plate got back to winning ways after two weekends of dropped points on Saturday evening,
hosting Newell's Old Boys and beating them 2-1 with two goals from I hope you're sitting down
Leandro Caruso, who was only ... Continue reading →
Estudiantes de La Plata went top of the 2011 Torneo Clausura on Friday night, beating All Boys 3-0
thanks to two own goals and one from Leandro González. The win takes them top of the table on
fifteen points, although ... 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 →
Sunday's matches in the 2011 Torneo Clausura were overshadowed by tragedy, as death returned to the
stadia of Argentina's top flight. Ramón Aramayo, a 36-year-old fan (I would like to stress, not a
barra brava), got involved in a struggle ... 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 →
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 →
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 →
Olimpo and Banfield got simultaneous narrow wins on Friday night to move temporarily joint top of
the 2011 Torneo Clausura with ten points each at the start of the fifth round of matches.
Banfield's 2-1 away win over Tigre wraps ... 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 →
Esteban Fuertes once again proved that the more experienced players do it better in the Argentine
top flight on Sunday, as he scored two goals to give Colón a 3-2 away victory over Godoy Cruz in
Mendoza. In what's becoming ... Continue reading →
The first clásico platense in the new Estadio Único de La Plata didn't feature Juan Sebastián
Verón, but his team won anyway, 2-0, thanks to Gastón Fernández and Enzo Pérez, the latter from
the penalty spot. Racing, meanwhile, took a ... Continue reading →
Ramón Díaz's San Lorenzo had a tricky test in Floresta away to All Boys, who've claimed plenty of
big scalps this season since promotion to the Primera División. After Albo's midfield enforcer
Hugo Barrientos was sent off in the sixty-fifth ... 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 →
