More fútbol argentino than you can shake a mullet at
The fourteenth round of the 2011 Torneo Apertura sees a clash between the outgoing champions and the (probably) incoming ones, when Vélez Sarsfield host Boca Juniors on Sunday. That match has caused no end of umming and ahhing in the Argentine courts of justice, who finally decided on Thursday that Boca fans would be allowed... Continue Reading →
Boca Juniors' Apertura is going so poorly that it was almost inevitable. They've finally won a match, and the result is that their bitterest rivals River Plate remain top of the table, Boca having beaten previous joint-leaders Vélez Sarsfield 2-1 in La Bombonera. Elsewhere on Sunday, Olimpo got a narrow win over Racing in Bahía... Continue Reading →
Saturday saw the clásico del Sur won by champions Banfield, who got an easy 2-0 victory at home over a Lanús who offered little or nothing in the way of inventive football, to put an end to an ignominious week for the Granate. Colombian James Rodríguez scored a real golazo for Banfield to put the... Continue Reading →
It's all go in Argentina, with not so much as a day's break from football since last Friday, and now the domestic league recommences after the midweek Copa Libertadores action. This weekend, Banfield host Lanús in the clásico del Sur, Racing visit Gimnasia in a critical relegation clash, and San Lorenzo vs Vélez is the... Continue Reading →
The goals from the fifteenth round of the Torneo Clausura 2009 are online now - you can watch them on the TN Sportblog by clicking here. If you want to know what order the games are coming up in on this vid, but can't understand Spanish / don't know the teams' kits, just read on...... Continue Reading →
The first (and more important) of the weekend's two clásicos was Saturday's first match, and it saw Lanús extend their lead at the top of the table, thus ensuring they'll finish the weekend top of the table. Elsewhere, Newell's won at the Nuevo Gasómetro in a clash of two sides scrambling for Copa Sudamericana qualification,... Continue Reading →
Hasta El Gol Siempre 