Clásicos
The third round of the 2012 Torneo Inicial had its fair share of delays due to torrential rain
which hit Buenos Aires and the Argentine litoral* late last week. It eventually got underway on
Saturday, though, and Boca Juniors beat ... Continue reading →
The penultimate round of the 2011 Torneo Apertura ended on Thursday night with wins for
Independiente and Vélez Sarsfield against San Lorenzo and Tigre respectively. On Wednesday,
Arsenal de Sarandà became the first side all season to score twice against ... Continue reading
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The penultimate round of matches in the 2011 Torneo Apertura started on Tuesday with a fairly dull
few games. Olimpo and Estudiantes played out a dull goalless draw, and in the four matches as a
whole there were only three ... Continue reading →
The penultimate round of the 2011 Torneo Apertura is upon us already, with four matches today, two
tomorrow and four on Thursday. We kick things off with the All Boys v Argentinos Juniors clásicoÂ
in Floresta, and late tonight Racing host ... Continue reading →
The fifteenth round of the Torneo Apertura is here, and it could see Boca Juniors all but seal the
championship. If they win against Racing and Lanús and Atlético Rafaela don't win their matches,
Boca will be eleven points clear ... Continue reading →
The fourteenth round of the 2011 Torneo Apertura sees a clash between the outgoing champions and
the (probably) incoming ones, when Vélez Sarsfield host Boca Juniors on Sunday. That match has
caused no end of umming and ahhing in the ... Continue reading →
The twelfth round of the 2011 Torneo Apertura has been a poor one for the title race, with Boca
Juniors moving on to 28 points and Racing missing a chance to keep on their tails with a 1-1 draw
against ... Continue reading →
There's a clásico this week to heat things up during the twelfth round of the Torneo Clausura.
What's more, it's an historic one: the first never clásico cuyano in the top flight. Godoy Cruz
and San MartÃn de San Juan ... Continue reading →
Sunday's and Monday's matches in the Primera División ended with Boca Juniors now five points
clear at the top of the league after Racing failed to go into second. Racing were held 1-1 in the
clásico de Avellaneda after taking ... Continue reading →
This weekend is a big one in the 2011 Torneo Apertura. Leaders Boca Juniors host Tigre, one of the
chasing pack. Champions Vélez Sarsfield will be seeing if they can make it two wins in a row at
home to ... Continue reading →
Following hot on the heels of the midweek eighth round of the 2011 Torneo Apertura, this weekend
welcomes the ninth. There's a clásico in Bajo Flores, where Racing visit San Lorenzo, a clash of
promoted teams in San Juan, with Atlético ... Continue reading →
Sunday's matches in the Torneo Apertura began with another dull goalless draw, as Argentinos failed
to find a way past San MartÃn in San Juan. Thereafter, though, things got a bit more interesting,
with Atlético Rafaela beating Unión 1-0 away ... Continue reading →
The fifth round of the Torneo Apertura is already upon us as I type, since I hadn't realised it was
beginning so early on Friday afternoon. Newell's Old Boys are already playing Colón de Santa Fe.
Later in the weekend ... Continue reading →
In the latest episode of Hand Of Pod, Sam and the Dans discuss Denis Stracqualursi, and what
Everton fans can expect from him in the Premier League, and an interesting weekend of Torneo
Apertura matches which saw the championship finally ... Continue reading →
Sorry everyone. Sunday evening and the subsequent couple of days have been busy. Argentines AbroadÂ
will be online on Wednesday, but first things first: it's very late on Tuesday night here, and I've
still not put the Sunday goals and the ... Continue reading →
The fourth round of the 2011 Torneo Apertura sees champions Vélez beginning life without Santiago
Silva with a home tie against All Boys. All of their four co-leaders are also at home; Racing host
Arsenal de Sarandà tonight, Lanús welcome ... Continue reading →
We had difficulty shutting up this week. A full 45 minutes of actually quite good stuff (if we say
so ourselves) was cut, and the podcast still comes in at over an hour. Diego Maradona is the focus
of much ... 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 →
This weekend brings another clásico for River Plate, who take on San Lorenzo on Sunday in the
Monumental. Boca Juniors, flush from the success of last Sunday's superclásico win, travel to
Sarandà to take on Arsenal. An English club of that name ... Continue reading →
For the 20th episode of Hand Of Pod, Sam, Dan, Dan and Seba welcome special guest Asli Pelit to the
show. Asli's a Turkish TV presenter who was at La Bombonera to see Boca Juniors beat River Plate
2-0 in ... Continue reading →
Sunday's biggest match in Argentina saw MartÃn 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 →
The 2011 Torneo Clausura superclásico is almost upon us. Long-term HEGS readers will be aware I
normally do a live update post here during the game. This time, though, I'm changing things
slightly. Posting to the blog is more time-consuming and means ... Continue reading →
The 2011 Torneo Clausura edition of one of the world's biggest football derbies kicks off in an
hour and a bit, with River Plate traveling south to La Bombonera to take on Boca Juniors in the
superclásico. Boca have been ... Continue reading →
The fourteenth round of the the 2011 Torneo Clausura has arrived, and that, of course, means it's
superclásico time. Don't forget the Hand Of Pod preview episode. There are nine other games taking
place this weekend though or rather ... Continue reading →
In the nineteenth episode of Hand Of Pod, me, Dan, Seba and Dan greet a couple of special guests to
preview this Sunday's superclásico in La Bombonera. Samuel (no, not Sam) is our tamed River Plate
fan, and the four ... 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 →
This weekend sees one clásico on the menu, as San Lorenzo visit Avellaneda to take on
Independiente on Sunday evening. Arsenal de Sarandà host Racing in a game only the home fans will
be thinking of as a clásico, and Newell's ... 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.
MartÃn 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 →
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 →
In the seventeenth episode of Hand Of Pod, Seba rejoins Sam, Dan and Dan. He's not happy with the
way referees have been treating his club, and he's not afraid to make his anger heard, but a little
surprisingly it's ... Continue reading →
In the sixteenth episode of Hand Of Pod, Sam, Dan and Dan discuss the weekend's footballing action
in Argentina, which included a hat trick at La Bombonera from a visiting forward you may never have
heard of, a double strike ... 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 →
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 →
In the fifteenth episode of Hand Of Pod Sam, Dan, Dan and Seba discuss what we can only term a
startling revelation from Racing full back Iván Pillud. We round up all the salient points from
the Torneo Clausura in ... Continue reading →
The Rest
It's been a very quiet time for HEGS over the last few weeks, and I must say I've enjoyed it. If
you're looking to get back up to date with what's been going, you could do a lot worse than check
... Continue reading →
