The Platense Sentinel
Match5 Sep 2026
6 matches without a win for Platense
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Platense are no longer polite ones.
Market7 Sep 2026
The Zamalek deal is off
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Nicolás Sumavil reports back to Platense with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Platense
Nico López 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.
Match5 Sep 2026
Platense refuse to lose to Defensa y Justicia
A point taken on 90 minutes is worth exactly one point and considerably more than that to a dressing room. This side does not stop, which is a reputation worth more than the result.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
Iván Gómez 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.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Nico López was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 16. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Platense are still strangers to each other
17 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Leonardo Heredia slips down the pecking order
The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Leonardo Heredia is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.
Match5 Sep 2026
Honours even between Platense and Defensa y Justicia
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
In brief
- Squad Bautista Merlini falls out with a teammate over standards
- The dugout Half-satisfied: Nicolás Marino on the draw
- The terraces Everybody has an opinion about Brian Bustos