It’s all domestic football this week. Without so much as time to take a breath, the seventh round of the Apertura is already looming. There’s an all-Sur clash between Arsenal and Banfield in Sarandí, leaders San Lorenzo host Colón and Racing are in bad need of a win against the newly managerless Estudiantes. Huracán, also without a manager, travel to Lanús, whilst Boca host Tigre and River are in Tucumán.
All kick off times are local. Add four hours for British Summer Time.
Primera División A Torneo Apertura 2008, seventh round:
San Lorenzo de Almagro vs. Colón de Santa Fe (Fri, 19:00)
Lanús vs. Huracán (Fri, 21:15)
Arsenal Fútbol Club vs. Banfield (Sat, 14:00)
Gimnasia y Esgrima de Jujuy vs. Argentinos Juniors (Sat, 16:10)
Vélez Sársfield vs. Rosario Central (Sat, 18:20)
Racing Club vs. Estudiantes de La Plata (Sat, 21:10)
Boca Juniors vs. Tigre (Sun, 14:10)
San Martín de Tucumán vs. River Plate (Sun, 16:20)
Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata vs. Godoy Cruz Antonio Tomba (Sun, 18:40)
Newell’s Old Boys vs. Independiente (Sun, 18:40)
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Possibly the most crucial game of all is GELP at home to Gody Cruz. Racing certainly need GELP to win this one, to drag Godoy Cruz’s average back down to 7 from 7. It’s really tricky being in a relegation battle with newly promoted sides under this system. We could say ‘oh, the Gimnasias are miles behind, they’ll never catch up’, and we know exactly what Racing have to do to catch up with the Rosario teams and Banfield. But you have these two other sides whose form is going to fluctuate wildly throughout the season, and every win and defeat for them are going to be magnified beyond all recognition by the averages system.
Olimpo should have been dead and buried ages before the end of last season, but look how quickly they came back into contention after three or four wins.
A River win on Sunday would be handy too.
But we can’t spend our time just hoping for defeats for other clubs, Saturday night has to be the night for Racing, WE HAVE TO WIN!
VAMOS AKD!
Regarding this average system, where could I find a table of that?
Cheers
Click on the tab in the top right hand corner marked Tables, and it appears there, updated as far as last weekend. Sam will be updating again at the end of this weekend’s matches, which is sensible.
I remember when I was little, no British papers printed any kind of league table until three matches had been played, which made more sense than these days. In the instant gratification, ‘I Want It NOW’ society, when they print a league table after the first day in which some sides have a record of 0 0 0 0 0 0 0. Solidly mid-table there then… (wishes blogs had roll-eyes smileys).
Matthew:
Haven´t seen that, cheers! :)
San Lorenzo is playing really good, 3-0 up against Colon at the moment.