Colón have failed to make it through to the group stage of the 2010 Copa Libertadores, losing out to Chile’s Universidad Católica penalties after a 5-5 aggregate draw. Meanwhile some of the groups are already underway, and Lanús played their first match in the competition proper on Tuesday evening. They didn’t appear to have learned [...]
Having stayed up too late tonight waiting to be able to type this post up, the four teams in action on Monday were most inconsiderate to England-based Argentine football bloggers by not bothering to score a single bloody one between them. Godoy Cruz join Vélez at the top of the infant Clausura table on seven [...]
Former selección captain Roberto Ayala returned to Argentine league action after a decade and a half in Europe on Sunday, making his debut for Racing with great things expected of him. Unfortunately, the same poor form and lack of pace that saw him fall down the pecking order to Real Zaragoza saw to his team’s [...]
Both Boca Juniors and Newell’s Old Boys hit the same form on Saturday night that they enjoyed (or endured) during the Torneo Apertura, on a high-scoring day in the Argentine top flight. Boca managed two consolations but ended up slumping to a 4-2 defeat in Rosario thanks to defending as bad as anything they managed [...]
The third round of the 2010 Torneo Clausura begins a day later than usual this weekend, due to the midweek matches for the second round. It will run from Saturday afternoon until Monday night, and at the end of it a league table will hopefully be up on HEGS for the first time in far [...]
The second round of matches for the Torneo Clausura finished on Thursday night with Independiente claiming a 3-1 win at home to Atlético Tucumán. Earlier in the day, San Lorenzo lost to Godoy Cruz, who got the only goal of the game in Boedo, and River Plate combined goalscoring verve with familiar late defensive lapses [...]
Now and then something happens in the world of football which transcends national boundaries, and thus it is that I’m making the first (and perhaps only) ever post on HEGS which has nothing to do with Argentina. As readers will all be aware the Togo team on their way to this year’s Africa Cup of [...]
Wednesday night’s goals aren’t yet online as I type (in midweek and typing from England it’s a little too late for me to wait for that I’m afraid), but here are the goals from last night’s 2-1 victory for Colón over Racing. It’s a video worth watching solely for Juan Carlos Falcón’s opener for the [...]
Well, perhaps not quite an elephant. But Racing Club were on a high following their opening weekend win over Rosario Central, and on Tuesday night they took the lead but ended up dead and buried thanks to a comeback from Colón to win 2-1 in El Cementerio de Los Elefantes. Juan Carlos Falcón put the [...]
The second round of the Torneo Clausura is upon us already, played in midweek so as to get ahead on things with the Copa Libertadores coming up and the need to finish the championship in time for the break prior to the World Cup. Estudiantes take on Gimnasia in the clásico platense on Wednesday, Racing [...]