Part of this post should have gone up on Sunday night, but I didn't have time for it - apologies. Anyway, Sunday's Torneo Final matches saw a dull superclásico whose main talking points were Manu Lanzini scoring the fastest goal in the fixture's history to put River 1-0 up, before Santiago Silva equalised, and a hold-up during... Continue Reading →
Superclásico Inicial 2012: River Plate 2 – 2 Boca Juniors (video)
The superclásico returned to Argentina's top flight after a one-and-a-half year absence on Sunday, and although River Plate had largely the better of the play in a tetchy match, Boca Juniors midfielder Walter Erviti got a stoppage time equaliser to wipe the smiles from the home team's faces. I'll try and get a better quality video... Continue Reading →
Superclásico Clausura 2010: the goals
In what remained from Sunday of the Torneo Clausura match between Boca Juniors and River Plate, it was Boca's Chilean midfielder / defender Gary Medel who was the key figure. Medel scored twice - one in each half - before being sent off for a second yellow card. Full highlights will be up later in... Continue Reading →
Torneo Apertura 2009: Round 10 goals
The goals from the tenth round of the 2009 Torneo Apertura are online now, but the people at the TN Sportblog are obviously Colón fans still hungover from seeing their team go top on Sunday evening, because they've not updated their site since before the superclásico. You can watch the goals right here though, embedded... Continue Reading →
Superclásico highlights
The scores and scorers of the weekend will be up in a few hours' time - after the super, Tigre and Argentinos drew 1-1 in Victoria and Colón then took over the leadership of the table in the weekend's final match with a 2-1 win over fellow contenders San Lorenzo in El Cementerio. For now... Continue Reading →
Hasta El Gol Siempre 