Marked for Ezequiel Centurión
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Triumph
Match7 Nov 2026
3‑0, and Thiago Almada took the headlines on an afternoon when everything River Plate tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” River Plate may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market9 Nov 2026
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at River Plate heard it as anything else.
Match7 Nov 2026
3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Squad9 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at River Plate this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.36, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.38, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Rafael Santos Borré, and the manager let it.
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Upbeat
Squad26 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at River Plate this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A muscle injury and 14 days out for Francisco Vidal
The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. River Plate will quote 14 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Lautaro Rivero falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad26 Oct 2026
The division's best last weekend was a River Plate man
It is a small honour and it is not nothing: somebody watched every match in the division and decided that Rafael Santos Borré was the best thing in any of them.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
Market26 Oct 2026
The name of Ángel Correa keeps appearing in other people's back pages. River Plate say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Looking ahead26 Oct 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Independiente Rivadavia in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
Loan watch26 Oct 2026
The goals keep arriving from Maximiliano Salas’s exile
5 goals in 10 games at Independiente Rivadavia — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at River Plate updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
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Crisis
Market14 Sep 2026
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
Match12 Sep 2026
Barracas Central left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes of Mauro Arambarri at his very best
Marked 8.06. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at River Plate.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at River Plate training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lautaro Rivero is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A defender's mistake gets tidied up by somebody else; a goalkeeper's ends up in the net. He knew before the ball crossed the line, and so did everybody in the ground.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑2 defeat, delivered by Iván Miranda to a room that had heard them before.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
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Crisis
Squad3 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 12 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Boardroom3 Aug 2026
There is money circling River Plate
Nothing signed, nothing denied, and a lot of people suddenly very careful about their wording. Supporters who have been through one of these know the quiet part lasts months.
Market3 Aug 2026
Cesena come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and River Plate did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market3 Aug 2026
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Nicolás Otamendi and River Plate agree another 1 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at River Plate this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“139 caps was 139 more than the boy who started ever expected.” At 38 he has stepped away from the national side and has not stepped away from River Plate.
Market3 Aug 2026
The phone has started ringing about Sebastián Driussi again, and this time the name on the line is Cádiz. River Plate are listening politely and promising nothing.
Match1 Aug 2026
Racing Club left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.