More fútbol argentino than you can shake a mullet at
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 →
With Argentina's new Superliga branding for the top division comes a new YouTube channel, which this season has been putting up three-minute videos for every match with highlights. On Friday evening there were three matches to kick off round 13, so here are those highlight videos, as well as the video from Independiente v Rosario... Continue Reading →
The round of clásicos was by a long way the lowest-scoring weekend in an otherwise goal-packed championship, but there were some goals, including a superb free kick from Santiago García for Godoy Cruz against San Martín in the wine region derby, and two beauties for Lanús to beat Banfield in the Clásico del Sur. All of them... Continue Reading →
A few days late, this post, but here are all the goals from last weekend's Primera División action, including two penalty-taking goalkeepers, a hat trick for Huracán forward Ramón Ábila and an amazing late comeback from Vélez Sarsfield to hand Rosario Central their first home defeat since November 2014.
There were 52 goals in 15 matches in the eighth round of Primera action, and average of almost three and a half per game, and the high point was another 6-3 away win for Racing, again in the province of Santa Fe (this time against Atlético de Rafaela). Tigre and Newell's drew 3-3, Huracán beat Temperley... Continue Reading →
The superclásico was disappointing, but we didn't have to look far for goals in Argentina this weekend; there were 48 in total, an average of 3.2 per game. That total included nine in Santa Fe, where Racing got a 6-3 win away to Unión, six in La Paternal, where Defensa y Justicia beat Argentinos Juniors... Continue Reading →
Tuesday evening finally brought an end to the 'weekend' of Primera action in Argentina, with Newell's Old Boys' 2-0 win over Godoy Cruz closing a round which had seen River Plate and Boca Juniors go clear as joint-leaders of the table ahead of the superclásico at La Bombonera in just under two weeks. All the... Continue Reading →
The last 'short championship' (as we currently know them at least) of the era is now eleven matches in in Argentina, and with eight games to go I thought it was time to try and get back to posting something - anything - here. So ahead of the twelfth round of games, which kicks off... Continue Reading →
After the opening matches of the 2014 Torneo Final, I wondered whether the dominance of results favouring the home sides which we saw during the Torneo Inicial was set to continue. Four away wins in the second round of games seemed to suggest otherwise, and now it would appear we have more evidence for the... Continue Reading →
