Week 11 fixtures

This weekend’s outstanding fixture, by some distance, is the La Plata derby. Gimnasia will be the home team in the Estadio Unico this time round (the two sides share it), as they look to avenge the 7-0 spanking handed out to them by Estudiantes in the stadium’s inaugural clásico in the Apertura. Independiente’s new manager [...]

Gimnasia out of the Copa… just.

Hearty apologies go out to all fans of Gimnasia La Plata who visited today hoping to see how their side did last night. As mentioned in the Vélez post, Gimnasia’s match simply took place too late at night for me to update, and I can’t get online from work to do so any earlier than [...]

Marching on

Vélez made hard work of it against Ecuador’s Emelec, but they got what they needed in Liniers, and are through to the knockout stage of the Copa Libertadores. The visitors made them work, and El Fortín didn’t help themselves, but Damián Escudero’s 64th-minute goal settled nerves and saw them through 1-0.