The Argentine Primera División season is over, and the era of thirty-team championships goes with it; with four teams going down and just two coming up (we don't know whom yet, because the B Nacional still has between five and six rounds left to play), the 2017-18 season will 'only' include twenty-eight sides. You can... Continue Reading →
A site improvement: live scores & self-updating league tables
Regular readers of HEGS might have noticed that the old 'Tables' page hadn't been updated in some time (since, erm, some time before the end of last year's Torneo Clausura, in fact). It was a lot of faffing around for me each Monday night, in short, and Monday evenings are the busiest time of my week... Continue Reading →
River travel to Córdoba, and the goals & scores from Sunday (video)
Monday saw River Plate's squad travel to Córdoba for the first leg of their relegation playoff against Belgrano de Córdoba. River will be without Diego Buonanotte, who was given a plaque by president Daniel Passarella before Saturday's game in what seemed a calculated snub to the manager who all but froze him out of the... Continue Reading →
We had difficulty shutting up this week. A full 45 minutes of actually quite good stuff (if we say so ourselves) was cut, and the podcast still comes in at over an hour. Diego Maradona is the focus of much of the early part, his ongoing wars of words with AFA president Julio Grondona and... Continue Reading →
Torneo Clausura 2010: Round 19 scores and scorers
Argentinos Juniors claimed the title; Vélez Sarsfield claimed the final Copa Sudamericana place. The relegation playoffs are scheduled to start on Wednesday and will involve Rosario Central and Gimnasia La Plata against, respectively, All Boys and Atlético Rafaela. You can see all the heroes and villains of the round right here, as ever. Primera División... Continue Reading →
The relegation situation
With just a few matches to go of the 2010 Torneo Clausura, the race down at the bottom of the Promedio is hotting up now. Racing's victory on Wednesday night over Atlético Tucumán has affected the race in a huge way, but with the relegation table worked out over three seasons it's not always immediately... Continue Reading →
Torneo Clausura 2010: round 4 scores and scorers
Monday night's match between Argentinos Juniors and Newell's Old Boys in La Paternal was called off 28 minutes into the second half due to truly torrential rain making the pitch completely unplayable (not to mention rendering the TV cameras near blind). It's another postponed game for Argentinos, who already have to play 82 minutes of... Continue Reading →
All the ups and downs
Photo by guille rusconi on the HEGS Flickr pool It's a bit late this year, but with the pre-seasons well and truly underway it's about time HEGS explained the teams who will be changing divisions this year. We've got the Copa Sudamericana participants, and every promotion and relegation through the Argentine league, down to and... Continue Reading →
Surely some mistake
To start the ball rolling for the next edition of the Copa Libertadores de América, the Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol (CONMEBOL) have released their latest all-time league table of the best teams since the competition began. And thus, 2009 can end on a happier note for River Plate fans of a slightly idiotic bent. Because... Continue Reading →
Three-way action
Boca Juniors, San Lorenzo and - who'd have thunk it? - Tigre will have to play a three-team playoff to decide the 2008 Primera A Torneo Apertura title, after all three won their last matches of the campaign on Sunday to finish on 39 points. Lanús, who beat San Martín de Tucumán, are out of... Continue Reading →
Hasta El Gol Siempre 