Due to the AFA’s complete inability to comprehend that some of us are running blogs about their league in our spare time from a time zone three hours ahead and rather enjoyed having not much to do on a Monday evening, Monday afternoon and evening matches begin in earnest this week. Rodrigo Archubi, found guilty [...]
Due to December’s Club World Cup in the United Arab Emirates, the Torneo Apertura eighteenth round match between Central and Estudiantes de La Plata was moved forward to last night in order to avoid a fixture clash later in the year for the South American champions. Taking their eye off the ball, Estudiantes played dreadfully [...]
Argentines Abroad is delayed slightly this week by the Monday night fixture bumping the normal domestic coverage a day on, and the fact I’ve been writing an article for another site (more of which later in the week). That’s useful in some ways because the Copa del Rey in Spain has ensured there’s action to [...]
The goals from the thirteenth round of the 2009 Torneo Apertura are online now, and you can watch them right here on HEGS. Read on for the goal video, as well as the lowdown on which teams are wearing which coloured shirts, for those unfamiliar with the kits. Running order: Argentinos (red) vs Central (blue & yellow [...]
The thirteenth round of the 2009 Torneo Apertura ended on Monday night with a late, late goal from Arsenal de Sarandí midfielder Diego Galván which clinched a point for El Arse after they’d trailed for practically the entire second half to Huracán. Angel Cappa’s team were thus denied a third win of the campaign. All [...]
Following Newell’s Old Boys’ victory over River Plate on Saturday, the other sides hoping to keep up in the race for the title had to win on Sunday, and two of them managed it. Banfield overcame San Lorenzo 1-0 in Boedo for their first win away to El Cuervo in 13 years, and Estudiantes brushed [...]
Saturday’s matches saw Newell’s Old Boys return to the top of the table with a 2-1 home win over River Plate in which, not for the first time, Diego Buonanotte gave the visitors their only joy of the match. A little later, Atlético Tucumán ended a run of eight matches without a win, thrashing Tigre [...]
The thirteenth round of the Torneo Apertura sees the first weekend round to hang over to Monday night (not counting the twelfth round which lasted through til Tuesday due to the previous round only having finished on the Thursday before). Joint leaders Newell’s and Banfield are at home River and away to San Lorenzo respectively, [...]
Banfield and Newell’s lead the table with Argentine champions Vélez, South American champions Estudiantes, Colón and Diego Simeone’s San Lorenzo in the chasing pack. River Plate and Boca Juniors both lost again, whilst Racing won in style. All the heroes and villains are here as ever. Read on… Primera División Torneo Apertura 2009, twelfth […]
Monday evening’s matches saw Banfield claim a 2-1 victory at home to Estudiantes, and Newell’s grab a late win by the same scoreline away to Tigre. With these results, both teams go joint top with 26 points, two ahead of champions Vélez and three ahead of Estudiantes and San Lorenzo. Colón could go joint third [...]