Game Eleven: v River Plate

River Plate  0  Argentinos Juniors  1

It’s now been four days since the superclásico, the twice yearly clash between Boca Juniors and River Plate which Boca won 2-0. The newspapers are still full of it. There were front page photos of celebration that might have left a stranger to Argentine football thinking that Boca had just [...]

Game Ten: v Tigre

Argentinos Juniors  1  Tigre  1

There were five or six of them, middle-aged chaps, working men no doubt with families and bills to pay. But they spent pretty much the whole match, their faces pressed to the wire fence, spewing insults at the Tigre manager, Ricardo Caruso Lombardi. These were not jocular snipes which Lombardi could [...]

Game Nine: v Racing Club

Racing Club 0  Argentinos Juniors  1

I’m not going to say it since when I said it last season after Argentinos Juniors strung a few victories together, they went on to lose and draw their next batch of games. But three wins on the trot and….no! Resist! Resist!

And the winner is….

It’s a week now since [...]

Game Eight: v Velez Sarsfield

Argentinos Juniors 1 Velez Sarsfield 0

This was a tense game, a very tense game against tough opposition. The winning goal came six minutes from the end, a scrambled, confusing own goal by Velez defender, Marco Torsiglieri. Despite the home side’s dominance, their inability to tuck away their chances meant that it could [...]

Game Seven: v Estudiantes

Estudiantes  0  Argentinos Juniors  1

There’s been a full programme of mid-week games which have produced bundles of goals, including the 4-4 draw between Velez Sarsfield and Boca Juniors. And this as the national team finally played the way they should be playing and outclassed Germany on their own soil in an impressive pre-World Cup friendly.

Game Six: v Godoy Cruz

Argentinos Juniors  1  Godoy Cruz  2

I’m going to ramble only semi-coherently in relation to this game since it pains me to be direct. The Argentinos Juniors’ front man,  Nicolas Pavlovich is nicknamed El Buitre or the vulture because he’s a ruthless predator who devours any loose ball and callously slots it into the net. But [...]