Comments on: Yet another twist

By: hastaelgolsiempre

hastaelgolsiempre — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 02:19:43 +0000

They’ve not got an unusually small squad, so I wouldn’t have thought so. They had a bit of a slow start to the Apertura, though – they lost three of the first five matches (drawing one of the other two), and later went five matches without a win in September – October.

Inconsistency has been the tale of their season, really, but they’ve pulled it together superbly as a unit for the matches in the Copa.

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 02:08:12 +0000

Thanks Sam. I was surprised to see how low they were in the table given how they’ve been playing recently. Is that down to fixture congestion?

By: justin

justin — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 01:37:02 +0000

I was impressed by their determination and effort over the two legs against River. And the goalkeeper, Mario Cuenca, was very impressive, especially for a guy who appears to enjoy his meals :) That’s about the best I can say about them, tho. They were pretty negative in both legs, and I’m expecting them to suck the life out of both legs of the Final as well.

By: hastaelgolsiempre

hastaelgolsiempre — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 00:41:28 +0000

Part of it is that they’re not really so small as it seems from the outside, Tom. Their founding president, back in 1957, was Julio Grondona, who now runs the AFA, and their current president is his nephew. They’re one of three sides (River and Boca inevitably the others) currently involved in a court investigation into biased refereeing.

But they’ve been pretty good for the last couple of years now, playing in the Libertadores for the first time this year and also qualifying for next year’s as well as reaching the Sudamericana final. They still haven’t won any titles, but it’s not quite come out of the blue.

That being said they’re hardly flying in the current league table…

By: Tom

Tom — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 23:24:20 +0000

I saw some of this game, Sam, and was impressed by Arsenal. Apologies if you’ve covered this in an earlier post I missed, but how have such a relatively small team been able to put together such good form?