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. Click to continue reading...

The latest instalment of Buenos Aires' Superclasico did little to give fans of River Plate or Boca Juniors hope of an quick upturn in fortunes for either ofArgentina's traditional footballing superpowers.

The 1-1 draw was played out with the trademark tenacity and tempo the fixture demands but a point a piece does nobody any favours.

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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 [...] Click to continue reading...

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 [. Click to continue reading...

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 [. Click to continue reading...

Things have not been going well for River Plate this season. As one of Argentina's two biggest clubs, there are a certain level of expectations always hanging over them and so far this season they're falling short of those targets. Like, by a lot.

Currently in 16th place through eight matches, River reached a new low by losing 3-1 at home to Independiente in the newly re-appointed Leonardo Astrada's second debut as the club's manager on Monday, marking the first time they've lost at home to one of their biggest rivals in 13 years.

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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 [. Click to continue reading...

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 [. Click to continue reading...

Están seguros de continuar la línea después de las elecciones de diciembre, de lo contrario, a tres meses del recambio dirigencial, la CD de Ríver no firmaría un contrato de 15 meses con un nuevo entrenador: Leonardo Astrada. Aguilar, Julio Macchi, Domingo Díaz (vices), y Mario Israel (secretario) comandaron la movida después de oír el arrepentimiento de Almeyda (jugador-DT), el nombre de Pumpido y el palo y medio que pretende por adelantado Ramón Díaz. Click to continue reading...

<! article start I'm going loco down in Acapulco this week, but the Copa Libertadores doesn't take a spring break. On Wednesday Caracas FC, who two seasons ago became the first Venezuelan side to win a match in Argentina when they beat River Plate at this stage, pulled off another shock by tonking Lanús 3-1. Click to continue reading...

At long last, after a summer of transfer bore-stories and ridiculous friendly matches which are only 70 or 80 minutes long, real league football returns to the Argentine Republic on Friday night. Following the most closely-fought championship in short tournament history, the defending champions are a familiar name, but that's no reason to assume it'll [. Click to continue reading...

Two matches were taking place simultaneously with potentially enormous consequences for HEGS this year. In one, Estudiantes de La Plata had the second leg of their Copa Libertadores qualifier against Sporting Cristal of Peru, having lost the first 2-1 in Lima. In the other, Argentina's Under 20s had to beat their cross-river rivals from Uruguay [. Click to continue reading...

Proper football has returned to Argentina with the start of the qualifying rounds for the 2009 Copa Libertadores de América. Estudiantes de La Plata travelled to Lima where they met Sporting Cristal, former finalists of this competition but for now just glad to be here after CONMEBOL came so close to booting Peruvian clubs out [. Click to continue reading...

... Tigers. Estudiantes de La Plata visited Mendoza on Wednesday night to play their postponed match away to Godoy Cruz, needing a win to keep Copa Libertadores qualification in their own hands. They took the lead, but were pegged back in the second half and, deep into stoppage time, Godoy's Iván Borghello got his second [. Click to continue reading...

Estudiantes de La Plata went into the second leg of the 2008 Copa Sudamericana final trailing 1-0 on aggregate, thanks to a Nilmar goal in the first leg in La Plata last Wednesday. On Wednesday night, though, they kept hosts Internacional out in Porto Alegre and, with a second half goal from Agustín Alayes, got [. Click to continue reading...

Estudiantes tried and tried in La Plata but couldn't get past their opponents' back line - or rather their goalkeeper - and will have to overcome a 1-0 deficit in Porto Alegre next Wednesday. Alex scored the only goal of the match from the penalty spot for an Internacional side who were reduced to ten men [. Click to continue reading...

The second leg of the Copa Sudamericana semi-final between Argentinos Juniors and Estudiantes de La Plata was as all reasonable people expected it to be. That is, after Argentinos' first team thrashed Estudiantes' reserves 5-0 in the league on Sunday, it was evident to all that Estudiantes would advance from the semi. Click to continue reading...

Estudiantes de La Plata were for the most part the better side away to Argentinos Juniors in the first leg of the all-Argentine Copa Sudamericana semi-final on Thursday night. At half time they led 1-0 thanks to an unlucky own goal from Argentinos 'keeper Sebastián Torrico, but in the second half Juan Ignacio Mercier got an equaliser for the hosts to [. Click to continue reading...

There was actually some football taking place on Saturday evening, but it seemed somewhat churlish to report it right away when the news of Emanuel Alvarez's death clearly deserved the attention. It overshadowed an entertaining evening, with Independiente finding form again and Banfield coming back amazingly in the closing minutes against Tigre. Click to continue reading...