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Friday Night Rewind, Week 4
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Well, Gimnasia (LP) continued the good run of form after an opening day loss and beat up on Independiente 2-0. But the big news, at least for any unemployed head coaches with Primera experience is that Central lost 3-1 (including a scorcher by James Rodriguez-watch the highlights) away to Banfield and looked absolutely horrible [...]
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Estudiantes 1 – 0 Universitario de Sucre
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Thanks to a little bit of help from what appears to be a missed offside call, Estudiantes beat Universitario de Sucre in a match up of Group 5 opponents an a goal by Juan Manuel Salgueiro. Video after the jump.
Category: UncategorizedNot a Good Night for Lanus
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Lanus played a decent game, but wound up on the wrong end of a 3-1 scoreline in Caracas against Caracas FC in the second round of Group 6 action. Highlights after the jump.
Category: UncategorizedRacing Names New Coach
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Today Racing picked the successor to Juan Manuel Llop. The man named to save La Academia from relegation is not Diego Simeone or Alfio Basile. Rodolfo Molina and the rest of the board decided to go with a coach with a proven track record of saving teams from relegation – Ricardo Caruso Lombardi.
They [...]
Category: UncategorizedTalk About Waiting Until The Last Second
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San Martin needed every second of stoppage time to snatch a draw from Argentinos in La Paternal. This game featured a couple of good goals and a fantastic move. Video after the jump.
Category: UncategorizedSunday’s Games.
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After the dust settled on Saturday, Newell’s Old Boys continued in the top spot, despite drawing at home to Gimnasia (J). Co-leaders Arsenal (0-1 Godoy Cruz) and Huracan (0-2 Gimnasia (LP)) both lost allowing Newell’s to pull a point clear. While they lead by goal differential, they were joined at the top by Godoy [...]
Category: UncategorizedAdios, Llop
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Week three brings the first coaching casualty of the season, with Racing sacking coach Juan Manuel Llop shortly after the game. Rumor is that is was a mutual agreement, but just yesterday Llop said he didn’t plan on resigning and didn’t even think that the outcome of the game would be a determining factor [...]
Category: UncategorizedSaturday’s Games
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Well, Friday featured two games, each with one of the early leaders. In the first match, Newell’s drew with Gimnasia (J) 1-1 and in the second match, Gimnasia (LP) outplayed Huracan for a 2-0 victory.
Today, we have four matches, including the Clasico de Avellaneda between Independiente and Racing, which is first up at 2:15 [...]
Category: UncategorizedMatch of the Week
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The clasico between Independiente and Racing tomorrow has to be the biggest game of the week. I know others are fighting against relegation or for relevance, but this game could well mean the end of a manager.
Indpendiente’s Miguel Angel Santoro is feeling the heat, and a loss at home to their biggest rivals may [...]
Category: UncategorizedThis Weekends Action-Friday
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OK, it’s been a bit since I last posted. Moving, job issues, and sick children (and wife) have kept me pretty darn busy. But that is mostly behind me now, so back to regular posting.
Today has two matches on tap. League leaders (I’m not partisan or anything) Newell’s Old Boys receive bottom [...]
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