The second round of the 2011 Torneo Clausura features a right old ding-dong in Avellaneda, with a Juan Román Riquelme-less Boca Juniors travelling to a Giovanni Moreno-less Racing Club. HEGS will be watching from the press box for the first clásico of the year (if you don’t count the summer tournaments, which I don’t). For some reason there are two pairs of simultaneous games on Saturday, and only two matches on Sunday. I have no idea why. On Monday night, Godoy Cruz close the weekend, at home to San Lorenzo. All the kick off times are right here.
All kick off times are local. Argentina is three hours behind Greenwich Mean Time in the UK, and two hours ahead of Eastern Standard Time in North America.
Primera División Torneo Clausura 2011, second round
Club de Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata vs Club Olimpo (Fri, 19:00; refereed by P. Lunati)
Banfield vs Colón (Fri, 21:10; M. Vigliano)
Asociación Atlética Argentina Juniors vs Independiente (Sat, 19:10; M. González)
Newell’s Old Boys vs Lanús (Sat, 19:10; J. Baliño)
Vélez Sarsfield vs All Boys (Sat, 21:15; H. Baldassi)
Racing Club vs Boca Juniors (Sat, 21:15; P. Loustau)
Quilmes Atlético Club vs Club Estudiantes de La Plata (Sun, 17:00; S. Pezzotta)
River Plate vs Huracán (Sun, 19:10; N. Pitana)
Arsenal Fútbol Club vs Tigre (Mon, 19:00; G. Delfino)
Club Deportivo Godoy Cruz Antonio Tomba vs San Lorenzo de Almagro (Mon, 21:10; L. Alvarez)
As I did last weekend, I’ll be trying to put links to legally available streams up shortly before each match on my Twitter feed. If you don’t already follow me, you can do by clicking the appropriate link in the blurb below.
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Hasta El Gol Siempre 
Gimnasia should be winning this (ht, 0-0 v Olimpo)… if they don’t, it could be curtains for them even at this early stage, because they won’t get a better chance to get three points on the board. Guille still has it, wonderful run and pass in the first half that deserved better finishing from ‘Maestrico’. And Olé man is right, Vega should be off, hacking at the full back like that, but you need to commit actual murder with a machete to get a red card from Lunati these days.
What a ridiculous game this is. This could cause untold psychological damage to Gimnasia… yet Guille’s miss on 70 minutes could have changed everything. If Gimnasia go down, that miss could be crucial. :-(
press box very nice ow did u manage to wangle that one!!!!!
Wrote to Racing’s press department, told them who we work for, asked if they’d give us accreditation…