The Defensa y Justicia Post
Match19 Aug 2026
Defensa y Justicia through in the cup
A 1‑0 win over Atlanta, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Aarón Molinas
Successful dribbles: 28. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
No sign of nerves from Mateo Aguiar at 19 — 8.08
The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Mateo Aguiar did not need any: 8.08, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Defensa y Justicia
Éver Banega was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Market24 Aug 2026
Lautaro Amadé moves on
Sevilla pay $830.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Rubén Botta 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.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to Mateo Aguiar
At 19 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Squad24 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of David Martínez
“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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Ayrton Portillo dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
In brief
- Match Defensa y Justicia draw a blank against Instituto
- Player ratings The referee tires of Éver Banega
- The terraces The press cannot get enough of Mateo Aguiar