The River Plate Post
Squad9 Apr 2029
The knee: Orlando Colmán out for 79 days
79 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. River Plate lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match7 Apr 2029
The wait goes on for River Plate
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad9 Apr 2029
Words exchanged at River Plate
Miguel Martínez 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.
Squad9 Apr 2029
Words at River Plate training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Enzo Ortiz 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.
Match7 Apr 2029
3 matches without a goal for River Plate
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Player ratings9 Apr 2029
Nobody could get near Rodrigo Mosqueda
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout9 Apr 2029
Somebody else is better right now than Juan Manuel Elordi
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.
The dugout9 Apr 2029
Carlos Santa Cruz on the point
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Carlos Santa Cruz after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
Looking ahead9 Apr 2029
A test against the best for River Plate
The team at the top of the table next, and the honest measure of where this side actually is. Anybody can beat the club below them; the question is what happens against Libertad.
In brief
- The dugout No hiding place for Manuel Llano
- The dugout The plan did not have a place for Óscar Alcócer
- Match Point won or two lost for River Plate?