The River Plate Sentinel
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Nobody could get near Facundo Colidio
Successful dribbles: 32. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Age has not caught Nicolás Otamendi yet — 8.69
At 38 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.69 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
A defender's afternoon for Mauro Arambarri
Defensive actions: 26. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Mauro Arambarri in a row with a teammate
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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Kendry Páez is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Match3 Oct 2026
The run at home goes on for River Plate
8 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.
Match3 Oct 2026
Nicolás Otamendi sends River Plate past Belgrano
It finished 1‑0, and it was Nicolás Otamendi’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to River Plate.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at River Plate training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Aníbal Moreno 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Fausto Vera gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
In brief
- Player ratings Aníbal Moreno was immovable
- The terraces The press cannot get enough of Nicolás Otamendi
- Loan watch Ian Subiabre has made Saburtalo’s shirt his own