The Instituto Chronicle
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Alex Luna runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Instituto
Manuel Roffo 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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
137% of the income goes out in wages at Instituto
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Hernán de la Fuente 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
The one thing Facundo Suárez could not do
Shots: 10, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Jonathan Galván takes the honours
Marked 7.79 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Instituto had the best player on the pitch.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
A defender's afternoon for Fernando Alarcón
Defensive actions: 16. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The armband comes off Giuliano Cerato
Instituto will explain it as a decision about the team, and it may well be one. A dressing room has never once read it that way.
Match5 Sep 2026
Instituto draw a blank against Vélez
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Vélez defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
In brief
- Squad John Córdoba knocks on the manager's door
- Market The shop window has Jonathan Brizuela in it