Lucas Arce

Right Back - Godoy Cruz
20 Aug 2026
Thursday
Process

Marked for Lucas Arce

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The Godoy Cruz Herald

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Nahuel Ulariaga agrees terms with Omonoia

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Godoy Cruz people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Player ratings

Juan Andrada goes up and wins it — 7.93

A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.93 for the rest of it.

Squad

A falling-out at Godoy Cruz

Lucas Arce and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

A row about effort at Godoy Cruz

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Diego Viera was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

Roberto Ramírez gifts one

A goalkeeper’s error has no defender behind it to tidy it away. He knew before the ball crossed the line, the crowd knew a second later, and there is nothing anybody can say tonight.

The dugout

Roberto Ramírez is still paying for one afternoon at Godoy Cruz

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.

Match

Godoy Cruz share the spoils with Defensores

A 2‑2 draw with Defensores leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Emiliano Correa chose the glass-half-full version of 2‑2; the supporters left with the other one.

The dugout

Somebody else is better right now than Guillermo Cosaro

The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.

In brief

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The Godoy Cruz Herald

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Market

Digenis Morfou come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Godoy Cruz did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

Tempers go at Godoy Cruz

Lucas Arce 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.

Market

Godoy Cruz may not be able to give Mateo Mendoza what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Mateo Mendoza wants continental football; whether Godoy Cruz can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Market

One of our own: Tito joins the Godoy Cruz first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Tito is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Mateo Escobar steps up from the Godoy Cruz academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Mateo Escobar has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Match

Godoy Cruz get the job done against Talleres

A 1‑0 win over Talleres, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad

Luciano Pascual stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Luciano Pascual and Godoy Cruz agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Player ratings

Nahuel Ulariaga was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.04. 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.

The dugout

Martín Pino 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

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The Godoy Cruz Herald

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Market

Guadalajara come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Godoy Cruz did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market

Lucas Arce has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Godoy Cruz can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Squad

Vicente Poggi signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Vicente Poggi commits to Godoy Cruz for another 4 years.

Squad

Lucas Arce 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 Godoy Cruz this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A row about effort at Godoy Cruz

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Brian Orosco was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Player ratings

Luigi Cendales beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 19. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Match

Godoy Cruz see off Mitre

Three points for Godoy Cruz, 1‑0 the final word against Mitre in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Market

Still no ink between Godoy Cruz and Luca Martínez Dupuy

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Godoy Cruz, another week without a signature from Luca Martínez Dupuy.

Player ratings

Luca Martínez Dupuy takes the honours

Marked 7.92 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Godoy Cruz had the best player on the pitch.

In brief