Weekend fixtures

The weekend’s potential highlights include the clash of two severely underperforming clubs at El Cilindro when Racing host Newell’s later tonight, in-form Argentinos taking on early pace-setters River, and of course the ‘Big Five’ clash at La Bombonera between Boca and San Lorenzo - Ramón won from the home bench there last weekend, can he [...]

The week’s Libertadores goals

At last (and I do apologise for the delay), here are the goals from the week’s Libertadores matches involving Argentine sides. For Boca’s goal last night, please see the link in the comments section under that post.
Banfield 4 - 1 El Nacional (Ecuador)

Vélez Sársfield 1 - 1 Nacional (Uruguay)

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Breakthrough

Boca pressured and pressured and pressured tonight against Cienciano, and finally, with ten minutes remaining, something gave way in the visitors’ rearguard and Hugo Ibarra won the game. The victory was Boca’s first in this year’s Libertadores, and puts them second on goals scored behind Bolívar (with whom they drew their first match) in group [...]