The title race gathers pace. At the top, joint leaders Banfield visit Independiente, who will move
to within three points with a win. Fellow pace-setters Newell's Old Boys are at home in the
clásico rosarino, perhaps the country's most passionate. Third- and fourth-placed sides both play
tonight: Colón are away to Lanús, prior to which [.
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HEGS has lost a little of its news value lately due to diminishing spare time on my part, so as of
today I'm going to try and remedy that slightly. As Thursday turns into Friday at the start of each
round from now on, I'll be giving a quick rundown of some of the main [...]
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It's been a funny old year for Ángel Cappa and Huracán. After a storming Torneo Clausura in which
they were robbed of the title only on the last day by some appalling officiating, they've fallen
away drastically in the second half of the year. Cappa tried to resign last week, but the players
talked him [.
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Over the course of the 2009 Torneo Apertura, the mantra of fútbol para todos has transmogrified
into something meaning that one easily embeddable, easily findable goal video for the whole round
has become increasingly hard to find. The closest I can find are the four videos embedded here,
which viewed in order will give you [.
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The fourteenth round of the Torneo Apertura ended on Monday. Relegation strugglers Racing claiming
a hard-fought win over the champions of South America, Estudiantes de La Plata, thanks to a goal
from a former Estudiantes player. Estudiantes' city rivals Gimnasia tore Huracán to shreds,
running out 4-1 winners in a match which saw two superb [.
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In probably the most unexpected development of the domestic league's fourteenth round, River Plate
played with spirit and intelligence to overturn a deficit and actually win a football match on
Sunday afternoon. 1-0 down after only two-and-a-half minutes at home to Atlético Tucumán, it
looked like the same old story for River.
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Due to the AFA's complete inability to comprehend that some of us are running blogs about their
league in our spare time from a time zone three hours ahead and rather enjoyed having not much to
do on a Monday evening, Monday afternoon and evening matches begin in earnest this week. Rodrigo
Archubi, found guilty [.
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Due to December's Club World Cup in the United Arab Emirates, the Torneo Apertura eighteenth round
match between Central and Estudiantes de La Plata was moved forward to last night in order to avoid
a fixture clash later in the year for the South American champions. Taking their eye off the ball,
Estudiantes played dreadfully [.
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The goals from the thirteenth round of the 2009 Torneo Apertura are online now, and you can watch
them right here on HEGS. Read on for the goal video, as well as the lowdown on which teams are
wearing which coloured shirts, for those unfamiliar with the kits. Running order: Argentinos (red)
vs Central (blue & yellow [.
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The thirteenth round of the 2009 Torneo Apertura ended on Monday night with a late, late goal from
Arsenal de Sarandí midfielder Diego Galván which clinched a point for El Arse after they'd
trailed for practically the entire second half to Huracán. Angel Cappa's team were thus denied a
third win of the campaign.
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Following Newell's Old Boys' victory over River Plate on Saturday, the other sides hoping to keep
up in the race for the title had to win on Sunday, and two of them managed it. Banfield overcame
San Lorenzo 1-0 in Boedo for their first win away to El Cuervo in 13 years, and Estudiantes brushed
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Saturday's matches saw Newell's Old Boys return to the top of the table with a 2-1 home win over
River Plate in which, not for the first time, Diego Buonanotte gave the visitors their only joy of
the match. A little later, Atlético Tucumán ended a run of eight matches without a win, thrashing
Tigre [.
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The thirteenth round of the Torneo Apertura sees the first weekend round to hang over to Monday
night (not counting the twelfth round which lasted through til Tuesday due to the previous round
only having finished on the Thursday before). Joint leaders Newell's and Banfield are at home River
and away to San Lorenzo respectively, [.
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Banfield and Newell's lead the table with Argentine champions Vélez, South American champions
Estudiantes, Colón and Diego Simeone's San Lorenzo in the chasing pack. River Plate and Boca
Juniors both lost again, whilst Racing won in style. All the heroes and villains are here as ever.
Read on... Primera División Torneo Apertura 2009, twelfth round: Vélez Sársfield (F.
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Monday evening's matches saw Banfield claim a 2-1 victory at home to Estudiantes, and Newell's grab
a late win by the same scoreline away to Tigre. With these results, both teams go joint top with 26
points, two ahead of champions Vélez and three ahead of Estudiantes and San Lorenzo. Colón could
go joint third [.
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The twelfth round of the Torneo Apertura 2009 got underway on Saturday, and I'm afraid to say,
following the midweek round of matches and the fact I was out on Friday night, that it caught me
out. On Saturday, champions Vélez hosted and brushed aside Godoy Cruz, before Racing Racing! gave
Atlético Tucumán [.
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The goals from the eleventh round of the Torneo Apertura 2009 are online now, and you can watch all
29 of them right here on HEGS, along with a running order of matches for those who aren't sure
which clubs play in which colours. Step this way... Running order for Show de Goles: Newell's (red
& black [.
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Boca Juniors beat Chacarita Juniors by three golazos to nil (losing Juan Román Riquelme to a foot
injury until 2010 in the process), and Lanús dismembered Tigre in El Sur, but the big story of
Thursday was River Plate's 2-1 victory over Argentinos Juniors the Núñez giants' first away win
in 17 attempts, with [.
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Tuesday and Wednesday have seen some decent games in the midweek round of the Torneo Apertura, with
Estudiantes regaining top spot with a 2-1 away win over Godoy Cruz on Tuesday, hours after
champions Vélez moved into sixth (two points off the top) with a 2-1 win over Atlético Tucumán
that came thanks to a [.
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Barely has the dust settled from the tenth round, so full of action that the superclásico was all
but forgotten about by anyone reasonable, than the next round of matches is starting. It's a big
round for both Avellaneda clubs: Newell's host Racing on Tuesday afternoon for some reason Racing's
new manager, Lothar Matthäus [.
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The goals from the tenth round of the 2009 Torneo Apertura are online now, but the people at the TN
Sportblog are obviously Colón fans still hungover from seeing their team go top on Sunday evening,
because they've not updated their site since before the superclásico. You can watch the goals
right here though, embedded [.
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The game of musical chairs atop the Primera División gathers apace. Estudiantes, Banfield and
Newell's have all led the table at various points since Friday afternoon, but at the end of the
weekend it's Colón who are left looking down on the rest of Argentina, after a 2-1 win at home to
San Lorenzo courtesy [.
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The scores and scorers of the weekend will be up in a few hours' time after the super, Tigre and
Argentinos drew 1-1 in Victoria and Colón then took over the leadership of the table in the
weekend's final match with a 2-1 win over fellow contenders San Lorenzo in El Cementerio. For now
[...]
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I'm a bit late due to a computer issue the match is already 8 minutes old but is still at 0-0
presently. Open this post, and refresh periodically for sort-of-live-ish text updates on a
thoroughly middle-of-the-table superclásico. River Plate 0 0 Boca Juniors (8 mins) 8 mins: Shortly
after Nico Domingo drags a shot just [.
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There's a vital grudge match in England this afternoon as Liverpool host Manchester United in the
Premier League, and also today Indian football hosts a less globally famous but no less passionate
derby with Mohun Bagan taking on East Bengal. For a change, I'm not going to bill the superclásico
as the world's biggest derby [.
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Three teams are tied on twenty points at the top of the Torneo Apertura after Saturday's matches,
and San Lorenzo could join them on Sunday. As well as Central's 2-0 win over Independiente,
Estudiantes had already won on Friday night, 1-0 over Atlético Tucumán, and on Saturday Banfield
(3-0 at home to Godoy Cruz) and [.
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One fixture will dominate the weekend in Argentina in terms of the international attention, but
although it probably pushes Liverpool vs Manchester United into second place on the list of Really
Big Rivalries in the football world this weekend, River Plate vs Boca Juniors won't mean anything
at either end of the table this time.
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There were only twenty goals scored in the Argentine Primera División during the weekend just
gone, but you can see all of them on the TN Sportblog by clicking this link. As usual, if you want
to see the order in which the goals appear and which teams are wearing which shirts, just read
[...]
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We're now halfway through the Torneo Apertura, and two points separate 1st from 8th. How's the
AFA's playoff system going to work if everyone ends up on the same points total? San Lorenzo lead
after edging out Central on Friday evening, Racing and Gimnasia La Plata both lost on Saturday, and
Sunday saw Rolando Schiavi [.
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Here we are already, halfway through the season. Champions (and currently second-placed) Vélez
have a Friday evening match away to Lanús, basement-proppers-up Chacarita are away to third-placed
Independiente on Sunday, and leaders Estudiantes are away to Newell's in the weekend's last game. A
week ahead of what might be the least consequential superclásico in living [.
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The eighth round of the 2009 Torneo Apertura finally ended on Monday night with the first match of
Leonardo Astrada's second spell in charge of River Plate. There wasn't even the shortest of
honeymoon periods, though Independiente took a 3-0 lead by half time and only a Marcelo Gallardo
penalty with a minute to [.
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Funny how things come full circle. Back in June, Argentina narrowly beat Colombia on a pitch so bad
due to River Plate's decision to stage a rock concert on it a few days previously that Diego
Maradona threw a hissy fit which saw the match with Brazil last month moved to Rosario Central's
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It was an intrigue-packed evening of football in Argentina on Thursday, in the eighth round of the
2009 Torneo Apertura. Colón went fourth with a performance full of golazos to beat Arsenal 4-1.
Shortly afterwards champions Vélez Sársfield, who haven't lost a single match at home in 2009,
ended Argentinos Juniors' unbeaten run with a [.
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With Saturday featuring Argentina's must-win World Cup qualifier at home to Peru, the AFA have
brought forward most of the eighth round of the 2009 Torneo Apertura, rather than opt for a
two-week gap between matches. River Plate confirmed on Tuesday that former defensive lynchpin and
title-winning boss Leonardo Astrada is their new manager, and [.
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The goals from the seventh round of the 2009 Torneo Apertura are online now, and they include some
crackers. Watch out in particular for Pablo Toranzo's screamer for Huracán against Racing, and
Juan Román Riquelme's equaliser for Boca against Vélez which was a far better goal than the
improbable 40-yard header Martín Palermo scored [.
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