More fútbol argentino than you can shake a mullet at
Friday's and Saturday's Torneo Inicial matches brought not an awful lot of goals, but some decent matches. On Friday, champions Arsenal de Sarandí finally won after five rounds without a victory, sending Colón de Santa Fe packing with a 2-0 win, before Independiente got their third straight win, 1-0 away to Argentinos Juniors. On Saturday,... Continue Reading →
The tenth round of the 2012 Torneo Inicial brought a few goals - not as many as last week, but still a fair few - and one very notable surprise. The shock in question was Belgrano's 3-1 win at home to Boca Juniors, which complicates Julio César Falcioni's life as Boca manager still further. Boca's... Continue Reading →
The ninth round of the Torneo Inicial saw no shortage of goals - thirty-five of them in ten matches, in fact - and moreover a fair few spectacular ones. The most surprising scorelines came in Liniers and Rafaela, where Colón beat Vélez Sarsfield 4-2 and Rafaela beat Argentinos Juniors 5-3 respectively. There were two 4-0... Continue Reading →
Saturday's Torneo Inicial matches saw both San Lorenzo and Independiente drop points. San Lorenzo lost 2-1 at home to Vélez Sarsfield, after which manger Ricardo Caruso Lombardi told the press, 'I might seem as calm as Snow White, but inside I feel like a volcano.' A little later, Independiente needed a late-ish equaliser to draw... Continue Reading →
Friday evening saw the start of the eighth round of the 2012 Torneo Inicial, and there were two home wins to kick things off. Belgrano de Córdoba beat Godoy Cruz 1-0 thanks to a Claudio Pérez strike halfway through the second half, before Atlético Rafaela started early, but left it late to put the gloss... Continue Reading →
The fifth round of the Torneo Inicial saw no shortage of goals, all of which you can see right here. The round began with a 3-1 home win, and ended with one; All Boys (over Unión) and Racing (over San Martín de San Juan) were the victors in question, with the latter courtesy of a... Continue Reading →
It’s been a fair while since Racing Club fans have seen a new talent come through who can really claim to do justice to their nickname La Academia, 'The Academy'. Alfio Basile, Ricardo Villa, Claudio López, Lisandro López and Sergio Romero all took their first footballing steps in the blue-and-white half of Avellaneda; but there... Continue Reading →
The third round of the 2012 Torneo Inicial had its fair share of delays due to torrential rain which hit Buenos Aires and the Argentine litoral* late last week. It eventually got underway on Saturday, though, and Boca Juniors beat All Boys 3-1, a little fortunately. There was a thumping 2-0 win for Racing over... Continue Reading →
It's not going to get too many hits, that headline, is it? But on Monday night a weekend of phenomenal dullness came to an end in Argentina with two 0-0 draws; Independiente and Vélez Sarsfield (the most interesting thing to happen there was a 45-minute holdup during the first half due to a floodlight failure)... Continue Reading →
Saturday's 2012 Torneo Inicial matches began in La Plata, where River Plate got their first win of the season thanks to two second half goals from Rogelio Gabriel Funes Mori after a first half in which they'd been poor, and very fortunate not to concede a penalty. Later on, Belgrano and San Lorenzo played out... Continue Reading →
Hasta El Gol Siempre 