Marked for Ignacio Russo
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad31 Aug 2026
19 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Tigre lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
No sign of nerves from Ian Subiabre at 19 — 9.85
The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Ian Subiabre did not need any: 9.85, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
A brace, and Ignacio Russo takes the afternoon — 9.19
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Ignacio Russo provided it, and the 9.19 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad31 Aug 2026
3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 27. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match29 Aug 2026
Whatever happens, Tigre do not lose
6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Match29 Aug 2026
Three points for Tigre, 3‑1 the final word against Rosario Central in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Tigre
Mauro Méndez 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.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Squad17 Aug 2026
38 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Tigre lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match15 Aug 2026
Ignacio Russo had done his part in building a 2-goal cushion. What happened after that was collective, and Argentinos Juniors were allowed back into a match that had been finished with.
Market17 Aug 2026
Levante come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Tigre did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
No sign of nerves from Ian Subiabre at 19 — 7.72
The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Ian Subiabre did not need any: 7.72, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Tigre
Jabes Saralegui 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 dugout17 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Felipe Zenobio, and the manager let it.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
A performance of 8.74 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Tigre
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Guillermo Soto was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Santiago González's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
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Uneasy
Squad10 Aug 2026
Gonzalo Martínez damages knee ligaments — 46 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 46 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market10 Aug 2026
NK Domzale come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Tigre did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ignacio Russo and Tigre agree another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Tigre this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Tigre training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Felipe Zenobio 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
24 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
Match8 Aug 2026
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
Ignacio Russo knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Tigre, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.