Lautaro Cano

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4 Jun 2028
Sunday
Process

Marked for Lautaro Cano

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The Banfield Herald

30 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Tomás Adoryan 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.

Squad

Words exchanged at Banfield

Ezequiel Cerutti and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

The dugout

No hiding place for Nehuén Paz

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nehuén Paz, and the manager let it.

Match

Adolfo Gaich the difference as Banfield beat Belgrano

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Adolfo Gaich. 2‑0 against Belgrano, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Player ratings

Lautaro Cano was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.01. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Squad

100 appearances for Renzo Malanca

100 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.

The dugout

Ignacio Abraham is still paying for one afternoon at Banfield

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.

Loan watch

Tomás Jerez wants to come home

“I did not go to Universidad de Concepcion to sit and watch. I want to come back to Banfield and fight for my place.” 4 appearances in 30 matches say the rest.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Ricardo Gómez kept it short after the 2‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.

In brief

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The Banfield Herald

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Up for the corner, and Lautaro Cano delivers — 7.30

Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Lautaro Cano scored, was marked 7.30, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.

Squad

Tomás Adoryan 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 Banfield this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Banfield training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Erick Cabaco 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.

Match

Lautaro Cano’s goal not enough for Banfield

Lautaro Cano scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to River Plate, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Market

Eyes on Lucas Palavecino again

The phone has started ringing about Lucas Palavecino again, and this time the name on the line is Cacereño. Banfield are listening politely and promising nothing.

Squad

Erick Cabaco is a square peg at Banfield

The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.

The dugout

Diego Rodríguez is still being punished for one mistake

Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.

Squad

Banfield are still strangers to each other

13 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.

The dugout

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 Ricardo Gómez to a room that had heard them before.

In brief