River striker Lucas Alario welcomes reported Liverpool bid
River Plate striker Lucas Alario has reportedly been the subject of a $8 million bid from Premier League side Liverpool and while the 23-year-old has revealed his happiness with the […]
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Paris St Germain hope to beat Roma, Juve and Chelsea to €15 million signing of Lo Celso
French champions Paris St Germain have entered the race for highly rated Rosario Central midfielder, Giovani Lo Celso with a reported €15 million offer. Central are keen to hold onto the 19-year-old […]
Chile v Argentina preview: 5 things to look out for & possible starting XIs
On Thursday evening, Chile and Argentina will lock horns once again in Santiago, almost nine months on from Alexis Sánchez’s penalty that earned La Roja a maiden Copa América title. World […]
Barcelona to nick Independiente wonderkid from under Real Madrid’s nose
Barcelona have reportedly sealed a preliminary deal with Independiente for 16-year-old midfielder, Lucas Patanelli despite similar reports towards the end of last year that Real Madrid had completed a pre-contract after […]
Five talking points from Round Eight of the Primera – plus ALL the goals
Managerial merry-go-round claims plenty of new victims Argentina has always been a rather volatile place to manage a football team and eight rounds into the Primera season, we have now […]
Pitch and injury concerns make less than ideal preparations for Argentina as Martino makes a surprising call
Argentina resume their World Cup qualification process this week but the return of Lionel Messi, the replay of the Copa América final against Chile in Santiago and the prospect of […]
Sarmiento boss, Caruso Lombardi fights with supporters at petrol station
Ricardo ‘Caruso’ Lombardi really doesn’t do himself any favours. The cartoonish Sarmiento manager was captured on camera fighting with supporters of the club at a petrol station after Monday night’s defeat […]
Racing claim second consecutive 6-3 away win & Newell’s come from three down to snatch draw with Tigre (VIDEO)
They say lightning never strikes twice but for the second consecutive time, Racing Club travelled to Santa Fe province and were involved in a remarkable, goal-saturated game of football. La […]
Ruben sends Central back to the top after victory over Sarmiento (VIDEO)
Rosario Central recovered from the minor blip of a home draw against Banfield and defeat away to Patronato, to deservedly beat Sarmiento in the Gigante de Arroyito and return to […]
Lanús ensure Barros Schelotto has an unhappy return with Boca & River snatch a last gasp draw with Banfield (VIDEO)
Lanús bounced back from their first defeat of the season last weekend against Racing to go back to the top of Zona Two with victory over Boca Juniors. Two goals […]
Quilmes pile pressure on San Lorenzo and a Wanchope hat-trick hands Huracán another victory (VIDEO)
Copa Libertadores knockout stage qualification in the balance and now eight games without victory, Pablo Guede is under increasing pressure to get things right in Bajo Flores. Sunday’s visit to […]
Godoy Cruz go top with win over Olimpo, Independiente edge out ten-man Patronato & Atlético Tucumán thump sorry Argentinos Juniors (VIDEO)
How quickly things change – in 2015 supporters in Mendoza were close to rioting when Gabriel Heinze was manager and La Tomba were struggling for results but on Saturday afternoon […]
Unión ease to clásico victory over Colón & Velez win in Córdoba (VIDEO)
Only a week ago in the Cementerio de los elefantes, Colón downed River Plate and given their decent league position El Sabalero went into Saturday’s clásico santafesino as favourites. Unión had […]
Estudiantes see off Defensa y Justicia, Gimnasia bounce back with win over Arsenal and San Martín claim point from Aldosivi (VIDEO)
Estudiantes followed up last weekend’s impressive clásico victory with a come-from-behind win over Defensa y Justicia in La Plata. The Primera’s leading scorer Fabián Bordagaray gave the visitors the lead after […]
Racing salvage a point from trip to Deportivo Cali (VIDEO)
Racing came from two-down to earn what could be a vital point in Colombia against Deportivo Cali on Thursday night and sit top of a very tight group three at […]
Central pick up vital three points in Montevideo (VIDEO)
Rosario Central suffered their first league defeat of the season at the weekend but bounced back in Montevideo to record a crucial victory over River Plate in the Copa Libertadores. […]
Three in a row! Huracán beat Tigre to continue run (VIDEO)
A week off from the Copa Libertadores meant Huracán had to catch up on one of their postponed Primera fixtures on Wednesday night and after what has been a testing start […]
River settle for point after being seconds away from historic victory in La Paz (VIDEO)
Very few sides come away from La Paz with three points, in fact you need to go back almost 50 years for the last time an Argentine club managed it, […]
Part Two: Argentina’s best young players: 40-31 #Golazo50
Continuing our look at the best young players in Argentina, we now reveal positions 40 to 31 (in case you missed it 50-41 is available here). All the players are eligible […]
Five talking points from Round Seven of the Primera – plus ALL the goals
Defeat to Estudiantes in the clásico costs Pedro Troglio his job Gimnasia’s recent record against bitter rivals, Estudiantes is woeful but the manner of defeat in the Estadio Unico was […]
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