Five talking points from Round eight of the Primera – plus all the goals
1. Delfino makes the right call but what prompted the charge of heart? Round eight’s big talking point wasn’t so much based on results but was instead centered on a […]
1. Delfino makes the right call but what prompted the charge of heart? Round eight’s big talking point wasn’t so much based on results but was instead centered on a […]
Marcelo Meli struck twice to give Boca a deserved victory over Huracán in the Estadio Ducó and move Rodolfo Arruabarrena’s side to the summit of the Primera table. Dani Osvaldo […]
Argentina’s two heavyweights remain unbeaten and just two points separates them near the summit of the Primera table but Sunday’s victories could not have been different. Boca survived an early […]
1. Orión’s leg breaking tackle overshadows San Martín’s draw with Boca Boca Juniors and Argentina goalkeeper, Agustín Orión has always been described as, at best, “ultra-competitve” and at worst a “nasty […]
River Plate bounced back from their Copa Libertadores disappointments and uncertain start to the league with a first victory in the Monumental of the campaign against Godoy Cruz. Colombian Teo Gutiérrez […]
In spite of their blip last week, Racing are now on the verge of qualifying for the last 16 of the Copa Libertadores after avenging the defeat in Avellaneda with a […]
Dani Osvaldo is rather enjoying himself at the moment and yesterday in La Bombonera the on-loan striker headed his 100th career goal and, what turned out to be, the winning […]
Boca Juniors enjoyed the easiest of Copa Libertadores evenings last night in La Bombonera sweeping aside Venezuelan side, Zamora to top group five. The five-goal margin could, and perhaps should, […]
1. River and Boca both stunned by newly promoted sides Few would have bet against River and Boca this weekend, in spite of their Libertadores commitments, they are both considered […]
Few would have bet against River and Boca this weekend, in spite of their Libertadores commitments, they are both considered genuine title challengers and so when either are pitted against […]
Daniel Osvaldo is never far from the headlines but for once it is not of his own making after his wife, Jimena Barón was assaulted by thieves during a robbery in Buenos […]
1. Estudiantes earn the bragging rights after ANOTHER clásico victory One of the fiercest clásicos in Argentine football was born in 1905 when Estudiantes was formed from a breakaway group of members […]
Boca Juniors striker, Jonathan Calleri has made an oustanding start to 2015 and rumours are now surfacing of offers coming in the for 21-year-old from Arsenal, who were linked with […]
Only Jonathan Calleri’s early strike separated Boca Juniors and Atlético Rafaela on the scoresheet but it was a thoroughly dominant performance from Rodolfo Arruabarrena’s title challengers which should have yielded […]
Julio Grondona’s monstrous 30-team Primera finally arrived and now one month in it is still as utterly dreadful as we all knew it would be. However, that does not stop […]
All the talk in the build-up to Thursday night’s Copa Libertadores match had been surrounding the future of Boca’s new loan signing, Daniel Osvaldo just weeks after completing his “dream” […]
Signing Daniel Osvaldo poses a risk for any club, after all, there is a good reason the 29-year-old has played for eleven different clubs since making his Huracán debut in 2005. He […]
1. The Copa Libertadores poses a real dilemma It may only have been week two but the effects of playing midweek in one of the most gruelling club cup competitions in […]
Carlos Tevez recently confirmed that his contract with Juventus would be his last and that when it expires at the end of the 2015/16 season he would return to Argentina […]
The result may have been what virtually everyone expected but Boca’s trip to Temperley but there was a little more to the supposed mismatch than South American giants squashing the […]