It’s been a big weekend while I’ve been away, River drawing back level with Estudiantes at the top and San Lorenzo in danger of losing their manager in spite of emerging victorious from their match against Colón. Olimpo beat Newell’s on Monday evening but with Racing and Gimnasia de Jujuy only drawing their matches, the rosarinos are unlikely to find themselves unduly worried by the Promedio. For the full details of all the matches, as well as the weekly goal video roundup, read on…
Primera División A Torneo Clausura 2008, sixteenth round:
Arsenal de Sarandí 0 – 1 Argentinos Juniors (G. Peñalba 10, OFF 63)
San Martín de San Juan (C. Recalde 10; F. De La Fuente OFF 87; A. Agüero OFF 90+4) 1 – 2 Tigre (L. Pratto 43; D. Castaño 90)
River Plate (D. Buonanotte 81) 1 – 0 Huracán
Gimnasia y Esgrima de Jujuy (C. Carranza 27) 1 – 1 Banfield (D. Cvitanich 45)
Racing Club (F. Domínguez OG 3) 1 – 1 Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata (M. Martirena 86; J. San Esteban OFF 67)
Lanús 0 – 0 Rosario Central
Vélez Sársfield (D. Escudero 44) 1 – 1 Boca Juniors (L. Viatri 85)
Estudiantes de La Plata (J. S. Verón 50) 1 – 1 Independiente (G. Denis 86)
San Lorenzo de Almagro (A. Torres 39, 49) 2 – 1 Colón de Santa Fé (R. Ramírez 8 )
Newell’s Old Boys (H. Gaitán OFF 74; H. Bernardello OFF 90+1) 0 – 1 Olimpo de Bahía Blanca (M. Olivi 59)
For the goals, courtesy of TN, click here.
Running order:
Racing (navy) vs. Gimnasia LP (white & navy)
Arsenal (claret & blue) vs. Argentinos (white)
San Martín (green & black stripes) vs. Tigre (blue & red)
River (black, red sash) vs. Huracán (white)
Arsenal (sky blue, red sash) vs. Argentinos (red)
Vélez (white, navy ‘V’) vs. Boca (navy & gold)
Estudiantes (grey & black stripes) vs. Independiente (red)
San Lorenzo (white, red & black) vs. Colón (red & black halves)
Note Matías Olivi’s headed winner for Olimpo against Newell’s isn’t featured here because the video was broadcast on Monday before the match had been played.
My favourites of the weekend:
Denis: Estudiantes 1 – 1 Independiente (86th min)
Escudero: Vélez 1 – 0 Boca (54th min)
Buonanotte: River 1 – 0 Huracán (81st min)
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Nice work Sam!
Does anyone know what happened with Colon’s manager in the match with San Lorenzo? It looked like he was taunting the SL fans, maybe for going out of the Libertadores? For a few moments there it threatened to get very ugly indeed.
Justin, I’m not sure exactly – I’m a few days out of synch having been out of internet access all weekend, and it’s now very late at night and I feel a cold coming on, so I’m off to bed now – but Antonio Mohamed is a former player (and indeed manager) of Huracán, the club he supported as a boy, who of course count San Lorenzo as their clásico rivals. It would surprise me if that didn’t have something to do with it.
Mohamed seemed to be lifting his bottle of water as if it were a cup, I think a reference to SL never having won the Copa.
Like Huracan have won loads (sarcastic roll-eyes smilie)