More fútbol argentino than you can shake a mullet at
A family birthday meant I had a very full weekend and barely had time to watch most of the nineteenth round of Superliga action; nor did I manage to get these videos up on the evening the Superliga YouTube account published them, as I've been trying to do lately. So here are no fewer than... Continue Reading →
Monday evening in the Superliga brought three games and seven goals. Juan Otero got the only one of the game in La Plata, where Estudiantes bucked the trend of what has been a topsy-turvy round of fixtures by actually winning a match they were expected to win. While they were doing that, over in San... Continue Reading →
The seventeenth round of Superliga action continued over the weekend, with goals in largely short supply. Indeed, the scorelines on Saturday and Sunday were low, with one exception. Lanús and Rosario Central drew 1-1, the two goals coming just two minutes apart; Vélez Sarsfield were poor but River Plate were even worse as Gabriel Heinze's... Continue Reading →
Four matches on Sunday in the Superliga brought three draws and only one victory – the win in question being for league leaders Boca Juniors away to Banfield, who fielded a reserve side due to Copa Libertadores commitments but put up spirited resistance all the same following Carlos Tevez's early strike, which turned out to be... Continue Reading →
There were ten goals in the three matches which brought the end of the fifteenth round of Superliga action Monday evening. In Tucumán, Atlético got a 2-1 win over San Martín de San Juan, thanks to a late headed winner from Javier Toledo; in Victoria, goals from Lucas Menossi and Diego Morales gave Tigre a... Continue Reading →
Monday night didn't have the most enticing set of fixtures of the round, but there were a couple of talking points all the same. Talleres went third in the league thanks to a 1-0 away win over Temperley, with Junior Arias scoring the only goal of the game. Elsewhere, Chacarita Juniors got a 2-0 win... Continue Reading →
Sunday brought the last matches of the 2013 Torneo Final, and the goals scored took the final tally for round 19 up to 30 - the highest of any weekend in the 2012-13 season. San Martín de San Juan lost 3-1 away to River Plate and as a result were relegated; at the same time,... Continue Reading →
Saturday saw just three games in the Torneo Final; all were played simultaneously as a tight relegation battle came to a head. Independiente needed all three games to go just the right way, and in the end all three went exactly the opposite ways; Argentinos and San Martín both won (just one of them doing... Continue Reading →
Friday's Torneo Final matches held little excitement, but Saturday's three games saw 15 (fifteen!) goals, and over both days there were talking points galore. First, there was a 1-1 draw between Independiente and Unión, after which Américo Gallego's resignation was rejected by Independiente's board, only for him to be let go 24 hours later. Argentinos... Continue Reading →
