Official thread of Liga Argentina: Apertura 06/07.

[El Diablo Rojo]

Well, well more pre-season friendlies.

River Plate won 1-0 over Defensa y Justicia.
Racing Club drew 0-0 with Tristuan Suarez, the third friendly of Racing and still couldn't win and what causes more worries is that they couldn't even score a single goal.
Arsenal FC drew 1-1 wth Platense.
Argentinos Juniors lost 1-0 with Chacarita Juniors.
San Lorenzo drew 0-0 with Tigre.
Gimnasia J. drew 0-0 with San Martín T.
Independiente won 1-0 over Talleres RE.
And Boca Juniors drew 3-3 with Atlas, in Mexico, and then lost 3-1 on the penalties, in Boca, both Bobadilla and Datolo got to play. It's obvious that Morel Rodriguez is fighting for the spot of Krupoviesa, he does the same dirty fouls.

Some of the coming friendlies. On Saturday: Boca Juniors vs. Tigres UANL, San Lorenzo vs. Gimnasia LP and Estudiantes LP vs. Argentinos Juniors. The sunday: River Plate vs. Independiente Rivadavia. And that's all i think.

The problems seem to continue at Rosario Central even though Astrada already resigned and it's confirmed that Gorosito will replace him, the supporters protest in front of the club house and beg for the managment of the club to leave, since most of the supporters agreed with Astrada's plan for this new season.

Regarding San Lorenzo, well it was founded in April of 1908. they have 9 first division championships(being the 4th top team between the teams that won them the most), 1 second division championship and 2 international cups(One is the Sudamericana 2002 the other one is the Mercosur 2001 a tournament that doesn't exist anymore). Their all-time rival is Huracán, which is actually on the second division, they also have a big rivalry with Vélez Sarsfield and Boca Juniors. Their stadium can hold up to 43,000 spectators, they have been playing there since the 80's actually their old stadium could hold up to 75,000 spectators and back in the time it was the stadium used by the national team for their matches. San Lorenzo is also referred as "El cuervo(the crow)" or "El ciclón(the cyclone)". If you come to Buenos Aires and ever plan to go to a match of San Lorenzo, there's something tricky the complete name is Club Atlético San Lorenzo de Almagro, but it isn't even close of the neighborhood of Almagro the club is actually located in the neighborhood of Boedo. Their official site is http://www.sanlorenzo.com.ar i believe it's spanish only.

 

[courtdeasy]

Thank you for the info and link to the site. It is only available in spanish, but that will only help me to learn!

I just got done watching their friendly against Gimnasia, which ended in an 0-0 draw. 5 red cards total in the match between both teams.
Lorenzo played well despite being down 2 men for most of the second half, defending set pieces very well and even had a good shot to win that sailed just over the goal late in the second half.

Needless to say, it was a very entertaining match, though Im sure the A.F.A isnt to pleased!

 

[El Diablo Rojo]

Gotta blame Lunatti he didn't realize that this was a friendly match only, i still wonder how the **** he got to be an international referee.
It seems that Lunatti won't be the referee of any match for at least 1 or 2 weeks.

Well some of the friendlies scores.

Gimnasia LP and San Lorenzo drew 0-0. Lunatti once again showed that he is a disgrace as referee and ruined the game, also for the first time in South America there were used those electronic ad banners on the sides, apparently more stadiums would get those too.
Boca Juniors won 6-1 over Tigres UANL.
Argentinos Juniors won 1-0 over Estudiantes LP. Verón returned but Estudiantes couldn't win anyway.
River Plate won 3-1 over Independiente Rivadavia, most of the match played with substitutes and youth players, however on the second half Belluschi and Ortega came in.
Lanús won 2-0 on a friendly, but i have no clue which was the other team.
Independiente played a friendly against CEFAR, Independiente won 3-0, as usual on the friendlies Denis scored, another goal was an own goal from a player of the other team and Vladimir Rios scored once again, now from a free kick.

It seems that Figueroa is too expensive of River so basically they got rid of him, now he'll play in Genova, the italian club. Botero, the bolivian forward who played many times for Bolivia's national team, joined San Lorenzo.

Due a demand from FIFA from now on the referees for the matches of the first division won't be chosen randomly anymore.

Gimnasia LP and Estudiantes LP are now allowed to remodel their stadiums, while they respect the laws and the security precautions, however for bigger matches they would use the stadium Ciudad de La Plata.

 

[Axolote]

Updated transfer list:

ARGENTINOS: Darío González, Jorge Quinteros, Pablo Barzola, Leandro Desábato, Fernando Cáceres, Rafael Viotti, Facundo Bonvín, Gabriel Hauche, Gonzalo Choy González, Marchissio, Sebastián Carrera, Gonzalo Prósperi y Juan Avendaño.

ARSENAL: Catriel Orcellet, Mario Cuenca, Gabriel Loeschbor, Pablo Garnier, Cristian Tavio, Mauro Obolo, Lucas Valdemarín y Freddy Guarín y Andrés Pérez.

BANFIELD: Ricardo Andrés Aparicio, Cristian Bardaro, Silvio González, Carlos Galván, Héctor Silva, Mario Grana y Angel Morales.

BELGRANO: Ricardo Rojas, Juan José Serrizuela, José Moisela, Ezequiel Medrán, Juan Daniel Cáceres, Jorge Cervera y Andrés Yllana.

BOCA: Aldo Bobadilla y Jesús Dátolo.

COLÓN: José Sand, Claudio Enría, Freddy Grisales, Diego Barrado, Cristian Grabinski, Juan Fernández, Sebastián Blázquez y Gastón Esmerado.

ESTUDIANTES: Juan Sebastián Verón, Mauricio Casierra, Josimar Mosquera y Mariano Andújar.

GIMNASIA (LP): Andrés Gulielminpietro, Juan Carlos Olave, Germán Basualdo, Santiago Silva, Luciano Leguizamón y Kilian Virviescas.

GIMNASIA (J): Mauricio Almada, Silvio Iuvalé, Carlos Barrionuevo, Mario Turdó, Germán Noce, Ricardo Gómez, Juan Sabia, Cristian Basualdo, Ariel Colzera y Pablo Frontini.

GODOY CRUZ: Juan Manuel Herbella, José Pablo Cárdenas, Franco Mendoza, Rolando Bogado, Hernán Buján, Esteban Buján, Osvaldo Miranda, D. Fernández, Fernando Giarrizo, Gustavo Pinto y José Devaca.

INDEPENDIENTE: Daniel Montenegro, Antonio Barijho, Germán Denis, Guillermo Rodríguez, Vladimir Marín Ríos, Damián Luna, Marcos Ramírez y Leandro Gioda.

LANÚS: Lucas Alesandria, Nelson Benítez, Javier Almirón, Walter Ribonetto, Claudio Flores y Rogelio Martínez.

NEWELL´S: Matías Miramontes, Marcos Flores, Carlos Araujo, Santiago Salcedo y Oscar Cardozo.

NUEVA CHICAGO: Lucio Filomeno, Juan Matías Fischer, Jorge Martínez, Juan Gómez, Pablo Nieva, Eduardo Méndez, Carlos Soto, Adrián González, Mauricio Hanuch, De Olivera, W. Velázquez, Brahaman Sinisterra y Juan Pietravallo.

QUILMES: Horacio Cardozo, Fernando Crosa, Pablo Ricchetti, Gustavo Ibáñez, Derlis Gómez, Damián Grosso, Raúl Saavedra, Martín Romagnoli, Sebastián Rusculleda, Carlos Barrionuevo, Juan Fernández D´Alessio, Gastón Coyette, Fernando Saavedra, Carlos Luna y Pablo Giménez.

RACING: Leandro Grimi, Facundo Sava, Gonzalo Bergessio, Sebastián Romero, Ezequiel Miralles, Sixto Peralta, Celso Esquivel, Francisco Maciel, Emanuel Culio y Javier Arizala.

RIVER: Ariel Ortega, Fernando Belluschi, Eduardo Tuzzio, Federico Lussenhof, Bernardo Leyenda y Marcelo Sosa.

ROSARIO CENTRAL: Ariel Garcé, Darío Conca, Paulo Wanchope, Cristian González y Gonzalo Belloso.

SAN LORENZO: Sebastián Méndez, Pablo Quatrocchi, Cristian Tula, Claudio Husain, Santiago Hirsig, Roberto Jiménez y Joaquín Botero.

VÉLEZ: Iván Moreno y Fabianesi.

 

[El Diablo Rojo]

Yesterday the season started here the scores of the matches of yesterday and today.

Racing Club vs. Nueva Chicago 2-0
31' SH Facundo Sava(PK) 1-0
39' SH Facundo Sava(PK) 2-0

Arsenal FC vs. Gimnasia LP 3-1
30' FH Santiago Raymonda 1-0
42' FH Martín Cardetti 1-1
47' FH Juan Pablo Caffa 2-1
31' SH Lucas Valdemarin 3-1

Colón Sta. Fe vs. Independiente 1-4
12' FH Esteban Fuertes(PK) 1-0
5' SH Sergio Orteman 1-1
7' SH Germán Denis 1-2
35' SH Rodrigo Diaz 1-3
42' SH Daniel Montenegro(PK) 1-4

Gimenez either roots for All Boys or for Vélez because he calls **** against Nueva Chicago in all the matches he's the referee in matches that involve them.

About Independiente match, Independiente started dominating in few minutes Orteman headed the ball it hits the post, few minutes later Vladimir Marin Rios takes a free kick that hits the other post, but suddenly in a defensive mess there was a penalty for Colón, which was the 1-0, since then Colón started to lose the posession of the ball and didn't insist too much on attacking. On the second half Independiente came with another mentality, there was a big improvement of Orteman, Montenegro and Armenteros on attack, which eventually resulted in the 2 goals right after the start of the second half. Also excellent work of Vladimir on the left and "cebolla" Rodriguez in defense blocking everywhere. The second half team was like another Independiente, also got to take note that Colón wasn't the same from the first half, not like it was overhelming but still.

:Bow: Daniel Montenegro, Sergio Orteman and Vladimir Marin Rios.

For what it has been said, Ortega would be on the bench tomorrow against Lanús.

 

[Bummy_JaB]

Ive been following Boca ever since the glory days of Oscar Cordoba and El chico Serna. Ever since than ive been loving everything about them. They also won the last 2 championships and will be in the Libertadores next year. The Libertadores that was played this year was maaaaaaad boring without boca.

Lost a couple of really good players like Insua but still have important youngsters like Dago and Palacio.

 

[SB9Dragon]

Fantastic game yesterday by Boca. Great to see Martin scoring goals, even with the passing in his family. Emotionally inspiring stuff.

 

[pasion1]

I just heard Veron's inteview after the game. What an arrogant Prick. I cant wait for el Pato Sosa to "fix him" up a bit.

 

[El Diablo Rojo]

Well well, here the scores of the matches played on Sunday.

Gimnasia J. vs. San Lorenzo 0-1
5' FH Jonathan Bottinelli 0-1

Newell's Old Boys vs. Vélez Sarsfield 3-0
20' FH Oscar Cardozo 1-0
2' SH Santiago Salcedo 2-0
3' SH Santiago Salcedo 3-0

Argentinos Juniors vs. Godoy Cruz 1-0
42' FH Jorge Quinteros 1-0

Quilmes AC vs. Estudiantes LP 0-1
34' FH Mariano Pavone 0-1

Boca Juniors vs. Banfield 3-0
12' SH Martín Palermo 1-0
21' SH Sebastián Battaglia 2-0
30' SH Martín Palermo 3-0

Lanús vs. River Plate 0-2
4' SH Maximiliano Velazquez(OG) 0-1
6' SH Gonzalo Higuain 0-2

Belgrano Cba. vs. Rosario Central 1-0
9' SH Jorge Cervera 1-0

The table.

1- Independiente 3 +3(4-1)
2- Boca Juniors 3 +3(3-0)
3- Newell's Old Boys 3 +3(3-0)
4- Arsenal FC 3 +2(3-1)
5- Racing Club 3 +2(2-0)
6- River Plate 3 +2(2-0)
7- Argentinos Juniors 3 +1(1-0)
8- Belgrano Cba. 3 +1(1-0)
9- Estudiantes LP 3 +1(1-0)
10- San Lorenzo 3 +1(1-0)
11- Gimnasia J. 0 -1 (0-1)
12- Godoy Cruz 0 -1(0-1)
13- Quilmes AC 0 -1(0-1)
14- Rosario Central 0 -1(0-1)
15- Gimnasia LP 0 -2(1-3)
16- Lanús 0 -2(0-2)
17- Nueva Chicago 0 -2(0-2)
18- Colón Sta. Fe 0 -3(1-4)
19- Banfield 0 -3(0-3)
20- Vélez Sarsfield 0 -3(0-3)

The matches of the Matchday 2.

Friday 11/8
Nueva Chicago vs. Argentinos Juniors

Saturday 12/8
San Lorenzo vs. Colón Sta. Fe
Rosario Central vs. Boca Juniors
Independiente vs. Belgrano Cba.

Sunday 13/8
Banfield vs. Lanús
Godoy Cruz vs. Arsenal FC
Estudiantes LP vs. Gimnasia J.
Gimnasia LP vs. Quilmes AC
Vélez Sarsfield vs. Racing Club
River Plate vs. Newell's Old Boys

Palacio is 24, so he isn't exactly a youngster.
If Verón thought that people forgave him, then he got proven wrong yesterday.
Kily Gonzalez got sent off on his return match.

Did you hear that there's an offer floating around from Atlético de Madrid for Belluschi? Apparently they offer 7 millions of dollars.

 

[RUSI]

I just heard Veron's inteview after the game. What an arrogant Prick. I cant wait for el Pato Sosa to "fix him" up a bit.

What did he say ?

 

[El Diablo Rojo]

He said something among the lines that if he was playing at Quilmes he would have been clapped and not get the chant "El que no salta es un inglés", basically that anywhere he'd go he'd be loved and hated by everybody else.

 

[Axolote]

Veron is a great player. I always admire his class. Estudiantes with him is a real candidate.

Best Match:
Boca vs. Banfield

Best Goal:
Lucas Valdemarin (vs. Gimnasia LP)

Best Player:
Fernando Gago (vs. Banfield)


River played a good match against Lanus, and Lussenhoff was the MoM.


Here are the goals:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5VxWrignuM

 

[El Diablo Rojo]

After all it seems that River rejected the offer for Belluschi.

Andrés Silvera will join San Lorenzo, and while he had the chance Ruggeri once again brought the Marcelo Tinelli's empty promises issue again.

 

[Axolote]

After all it seems that River rejected the offer for Belluschi.

U$S 7.000.000 from Atl. Madrid.

Radamel Falcao is almost ready...

 

[El Diablo Rojo]

Ok here the results of the 3rd matchday.

Nueva Chicago vs. Argentinos Juniors 3-2
30' FH Matias Caruzzo 0-1
32' FH Federico Higuain(PK) 1-1
34' FH Cristian Ledesma 1-2
4' SH Cristian Pellerano 2-2
18' SH Cristian Pellerano 3-2

San Lorenzo vs. Colón Sta. Fe 5-0
20' FH Osmar Ferreyra 1-0
26' FH Roberto Jimenez 2-0
7' SH Ezequiel Lavezzi 3-0
38' SH Roberto Jimenez 4-0
39' SH Osmar Ferreyra 5-0

Rosario Central vs. Boca Juniors 1-2
15' SH Juan Krupoviesa 0-1
38' SH Daniel Diaz 0-2
43' SH Ariel Garcé 1-2

Independiente vs. Belgrano Cba. 3-1
19' SH Rodrigo Diaz 1-0
22' SH Gastón Machín 2-0
27' SH Germán Denis 3-0
38' SH Matias Gigli 3-1

Banfield vs. Lanús 1-1
3' FH Josemir Lujambio(PK) 1-0
42' SH Claudio Graf 1-1

Godoy Cruz vs. Arsenal FC 0-0 - Suspended at 16' of first half.

Estudiantes LP vs. Gimnasia J. 1-0
36' FH José Luis Calderon 1-0

Gimnasia LP vs. Quilmes AC 3-2

River Plate vs. Newell's Old Boys 3-3
12' FH Santiago Salcedo 0-1
16' FH Marcelo Gallardo(PK) 1-1
22' FH Fernando Belluschi 2-1
44' FH Oscar Cardozo 2-2
45' FH Oscar Cardozo 2-3
1' SH Eduardo Tuzzio 3-3

Vélez Sarsfield vs. Racing Club 0-0

The table.

1- San Lorenzo 6 +6
2- Independiente 6 +5
3- Boca Juniors 6 +4
4- Estudiantes LP 6 +2
5- Newell's Old Boys 4 +3
6- River Plate +2(5-3)
7- Racing Club +2(2-0)
8- Arsenal FC* 3 +2
9- Argentinos Juniors 3 0
10- Gimnasia LP 3 -1(4-5)
11- Nueva Chicago 3 -1(3-4)
12- Belgrano Cba. 3 -1(2-3)
13- Lanús 1 -2
14- Banfield 1 -3(1-4)
15- Vélez Sarsfield 1 -3(0-3)
16- Godoy Cruz* 0 -1
17- Quilmes AC 0 -2(2-4)
18- Rosario Central 0 -2(1-3)
19- Gimnasia J. 0 -2(0-2)
20- Colón Sta. Fe 0 -8

The matchday 4 schedule.

Friday 18/8
Banfield vs. Rosario Central
Belgrano Cba. vs. San Lorenzo

Saturday 19/8
Arsenal FC vs. Nueva Chicago
Boca Juniors vs. Independiente

Sunday 20/8
Colón Sta. Fe vs. Estudiantes LP
Newell's Old Boys vs. Lanús
Banfield vs. Rosario Central
Gimnasia J. vs. Gimnasia LP
Racing Club vs. River Plate
Argentinos Juniors vs. Vélez Sarsfield

Finally Boca-Independiente won't be pay-per-view this season and instead it'll be Racing-River.

Once again paraguayans do important things at Newell's.

San Lorenzo is looking good that peruvian Jimenez seems to be a good player.

Yes you have Falcao, he better get ready to play because Higuain may be gone since Liverpool offered 12 million for him.

Regarding Godoy Cruz vs. Arsenal FC. Apparently when the match started there were some Godoy Cruz fans out of the stadium but apparently they started incidents with the police, the useless police of Mendoza started to spread the brawl using gas, unfortunately the incidents took place in the stadium too and some of the players got affected by the gas and suddenly you could see that the players started to run away out from the pitch while some of them fell 'cuz of the effect of the gas. The problem is there's a group of like 400 "supporters" that demand to have stuff like money and free tickets for the matches or else they will cause riots and complicate Godoy Cruz chances in the first division and also put in risk the chance of Mendoza once again being in the top league of Argentina, regardless it being only with Godoy Cruz.

Another shameful event(without violence however) happened during the week which was Ramaccioti resigning as coach of Belgrano because of the brand that manages the club. How is this related to the Godoy Cruz thing? Well the chairman of Godoy Cruz resigned which means that "Chaucha" Llop may resign as coach of Godoy Cruz and then he may go to Belgrano.

About Independiente's match. Once again a very good play of the team in general but specially of Montenegro, also good match of Orteman, Carrizo and Machín(finally he got to score), for the second time in a row Rodrigo Diaz came from the bench and scored, evidently he's showing that he's good enough to be a starter or at least that he's the 12th player. Guillermo Rodriguez had a close shoot on goal too, a very powerful shot from outside the box and went past the crossbar.
Now let's get ready for Bo$ta Junior$.

 

[Alianza]

Yep Jimenez is looking pretty good but Ruggeri didnt like that fact he got called up to the NT. Pretty stupid imo to call a player up for a meaningless friendly when the player is new at the club and just adjusting, i hope this jeooperdize his chances of starting in san Lorenzos next game.

 

[El Diablo Rojo]

Looks like that the friday he will be starting no matter what.

http://www.infiernorojo.com/ecrire/article.php?id_article=90 - :boohoo: It's always the same story when a big team visits Boca, they don't want to give anymore tickets it seems they like to see empty sections behind the keep. And later they come bitching when they aren't given enough tickets, so next time Independiente should give'em only 1,000 tickets(out of possible 20,000) and so for once they will stop with this nosense.

More likely this match should be played at Monumental, but meh it doesn't matter if Boca's stadium is falling to pieces and they will have to bribe the pope they will be allowed to do such.

 

[Axolote]

Macri is an arrogant prick.

Here are the goals of the 3rd match day:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kArIv5x4oeE

------------Carrizo--------------
Ferrari---Nasuti-Tuzzio---Mareque
-------------Sosa----------------
Belluschi----------------Zapata
------------Gallardo--------------
----Ortega---------Farias-----

5 changes in the team (out Lux, Lussenhoff, Dominguez, Lima and Sambueza).

On other news, Falcao isnt ready yet. One more week

 

[El Diablo Rojo]

And the third one went away.

Banfield vs. Rosario Central 1-1
15' SH Juan Manuel Azconzabal(OG) 1-0
36' SH Cristian "Kily" Gonzalez(PK) 1-1

Belgrano Cba. vs. San Lorenzo 2-2
6' FH Matias Gigli 1-0
8' FH Emanuel Arriola 2-0
9' FH Pablo Quattrocchi 2-1
16' FH Ezequiel Lavezzi 2-2

Arsenal FC vs. Nueva Chicago 2-0
14' FH Mauro Óbolo 1-0
30' SH Santiago Raymonda 2-0

Boca Juniors vs. Independiente 1-0
36' FH Matias Silvestre 1-0

Colón Sta. Fe vs. Estudiantes LP 0-2
26' FH Mariano Pavone(PK) 1-0
35' SH Mariano Pavone 2-0

Newell's Old Boys vs. Lanús 0-1
37' FH Marcos Aguirre 0-1

Quilmes AC vs. Godoy Cruz 0-0

Gimnasia J. vs. Gimnasia LP 3-1
19' FH Marcelo Quinteros(PK) 1-0
27' FH Diego Herner 1-1
34' FH Gabriel Ramón 2-1
46' SH Ariel Colzera 3-1

Racing Club vs. River Plate 3-1 :boohoo:
9' FH Gustavo Bergessio 1-0
33' FH Ariel Ortega 1-1
45' FH Facundo Sava 2-1
17' SH Adrián Bastia 3-1

Argentinos Juniors vs. Vélez Sarsfield 0-1
33' FH Mauro Zárate 0-1

The table.

1- Boca Juniors 9 +5
2- Estudiantes LP 9 +4
3- San Lorenzo 7 +6
4- Racing Club 7 +4
5- Independiente 6 +4(7-3)
6- Arsenal FC* 6 +4(5-1)
7- Newell's Old Boys 4 +2
8- River Plate 4 0
9- Belgrano Cba. 4 -1(4-5)
10- Lanús 4 -1(2-3)
11- Vélez Sarsfield 4 -2
12- Gimnasia J. 3 0
13- Argentinos Juniors 3 -1
14- Gimnasia LP 3 -3(5-8)
15- Nueva Chicago 3 -3(3-6)
16- Banfield 2
17- Godoy Cruz* 1 -1
18- Quilmes AC 1 -2(2-4)
19- Rosario Central 1 -2(2-4)
20- Colón Sta. Fe 0

*: Have a pending match which got suspended.

The next matchday.

Friday 25/8
Lanús vs. Rosario Central
Vélez Sarsfield vs. Arsenal FC

Saturday 26/8
Godoy Cruz vs. Gimnasia J.
Nueva Chicago vs. Quilmes AC
Newell's Old Boys vs. Racing Club

Sunday 27/8
Estudiantes LP vs. Belgrano Cba.
Independiente vs. Banfield
Gimnasia LP vs. Colón Sta. Fe
San Lorenzo vs. Boca Juniors:hit:
River Plate vs. Argentinos Juniors

River in troubles. After the match against Racing the players found their cars withe the windows broken and missing stuff. There were death threats for the chairman, who apparently is/was about to resign, and there's a tense climate surrounding the club, the justice is working on this. Also this week it was known that 36 youth players of River were sold for a total of 1,000,000 of dollars.

La Volpe is the new coach of Boca his work will begin on September 15th.

About Independiente's match... Well a very low first half, however neither team was impressing, but from a corner kick and an unfortunate wrong step by Ustari Boca's goal arrived, since then Boca basically didn't do anything else but defend, on Independiente Carrizo and Machín had a bad start eventually started to do better, Machín took a while though, Montenegro and Orteman didn't get the ball a lot they weren't a complete diaster but they didn't do that good. Rodriguez and Gioda, a wall, completely owned Palacio and Palermo the whole match, also with Lorgio Alvarez who was the best player of Independiente in the match(and the only one that can fight the title of man of the match with Silvestre). Marin played fine, but didn't really apply anything on attack this time, and unfortunately there wasn't any single free kick near the box. Later Rodrigo "el rengo" Diaz came in and completely changed the things, Boca wasn't doing anything but defending, Montenegro, Denis, and Diaz had close shots, Diaz had excellent dribblings amd made a lot for the attack, unfortunately the goal tie never came. A player that somewhat worries his low performance on these matches so far is Armenteros. Evidently that position of pseudo central attacking midfielder doesn't fit him, he's a lot better when he's only a left midfielder. On the side of Boca, not a lot to mention Silvestre interesting at defense and had interesting appearances on the other box. Palermo and Palacio, nothing, they hardly got the ball Palacio himself just dedicated to whine the whole match. Neri Cardozo had some good appearances but nothing amazing. Gago just gave 1 good pass, he's becoming worse each match. The rest weren't worth mentioning. Marino... i wonder, did he get to wear the 10 of Boca after a lottery? Probably the WORST player of the match, i mean, c'mon you are supposed to kick the ball not the other players heels, Elizondo was soft with him not showing a yellow card early, missing a very hard tackle on Gioda without the ball, he was deserving to be the sent off. Elizondo himself was fine with the calls but wrong with the bookings, he didn't give yellow cards to Boca player's for some fouls that Independiente player's got yellow card without doubting, or even Ortmena's yellow card which wasn't even a foul. Probably the most frustrating thing is that right after the match some people from the media dares to say that Boca is the only team with international class, so evidently they didn't see this game nor the other games.

San Lorenzo could return back to its original place. http://www.clarin.com/diario/2006/08/24/deportes/d-06001.htm
So they would move their actual stadium to the location of the old one.

Argentina's national team will play a friendly match against Brazil on September 3rd at Fly Emirates Stadium. From Argentina Basile(the new coach) only called Ibarra, but he got injured playing against Independiente and won't be able up for that match, it's said that Zanetti will replace him. Also because of this match being played on sunday, the matches of matchday 5 may be played on saturday and there would be no matches that sunday.

Also Argentina would play on October against Spain, and in November 15th against Turkey in Cologne, it's said that in December there would be a friendly against Italy.

 

[Axolote]

After the game we played against Racing, and with Nasuti and Gallardo out becouse of the red card, Passarella will make some ''drastic'' changes to the team.

------------Carrizo--------------
Ferrari---Gerlo---Tuzzio---Mareque
--------------------------------
Belluschi---Mendez---Lima---Zapata
--------------------------------
-----Ortega---------Higuain-----

Will see...