More fútbol argentino than you can shake a mullet at
The twenty-second round of Superliga action ended on Monday night with yet another late winner for Defensa y Justicia, who emerged victorious from a five-goal thriller against Banfield thanks to Nicolás Fernández's hat trick. The win meant that Defensa have qualified for the Copa Libertadores for the first time in their history – they'll be in... Continue Reading →
Argentina's five Copa Libertadores group stage representatives all started their qualification efforts this week – and all with rather frustrating results. There were goalless draws all round on Tuesday: Godoy Cruz got a creditable one at home to Olimpia of Paraguay, San Lorenzo visited Melgar of Peru, where both teams absolutely stank the place out,... Continue Reading →
The sixth round of Superliga 2018–19 action started promisingly, with five goals in the first game and four in the second. San Lorenzo took an early lead, trailed at the break and stormed back in the second half to win 3-2, with youngster Adolfo Gaich bagging his first goal for the club and Franco Mussis... Continue Reading →
The 2018–19 Superliga season got underway on Friday night. In Liniers, Vélez Sarsfield went ahead earlier and ran out 2-0 winners over a poor Newell's Old Boys side, thanks to a first minute Luis Abram goal and a twenty-sixth minute Matías Vargas penalty. Shortly after, Tigre v San Lorenzo – which had the look of... Continue Reading →
On Thursday lunchtime, the Superliga Argentina de Fútbol finally released the fixture list for the coming season, which will kick off on Friday, 10th August. Like last season, teams will all play each other just once (with twenty-six teams in the league, there's not time for everyone to play everyone else twice), with the championship... Continue Reading →
Friday's Superliga games brought two 2-0 wins. One was for Gabriel Heinze's Vélez Sarsfield, who kept a rare clean sheet and continued to show signs of good attacking play as they raced into an early lead against San Martín and kept it throughout the remainder of the game. The other was for San Lorenzo, whose... Continue Reading →
On Sunday, only two Superliga matches were played, due to Gimnasia v Boca Juniors and Racing v Arsenal being postponed after torrential rain swept across the north of Buenos Aires province in the early hours of Sunday morning. In the games that did happen, Patronato and San Lorenzo drew a dull game 0-0 in Paraná... Continue Reading →
Saturday brought some interesting Superliga results, none more eye-catching than Vélez Sarsfield's improvement in one of the very first matches of the afternoon to tonk relegated Temperley 4-2 away from home, thanks to two second half goals from Lucas Robertone. Meanwhile, San Martín and Lanús were drawing 1-1 in San Juan. Talleres got their Copa... Continue Reading →
There were two games yesterday evening in the Superliga. In Rosario, Newell's Old Boys hosted Talleres and got a rather surprising victory, beating them 2-1 thanks to a winner from Jerónimo Cacciabue to prevent Talleres from going third and to lift themselves to twenty-second. Later, Vélez Sarsfield and San Lorenzo were involved in an entertaining... Continue Reading →
As I posted last night, San Lorenzo got a 1-0 away win over Independiente on Wednesday evening, thanks to a Rubén Botta goal, which took them second in the Superliga. They now sit eight points behind Boca Juniors, with eighteen to play for. When I wrote last night's post, the Superliga YouTube channel still hadn't... Continue Reading →
Hasta El Gol Siempre 