The Banfield Herald
Match17 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Banfield
8 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.
Market19 Oct 2026
Lisandro Piñero asks to leave Banfield
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Banfield
Diego Rodríguez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Nobody could get near David Zalazar
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Ignacio Abraham 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A late step up for Gino Santilli
At 24 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
Match17 Oct 2026
Alexander Machado answers Gimnasia La Plata immediately
Conceding is one thing; the response is what tells you about a dressing room. Alexander Machado had Banfield level again within 3 minutes, and Gimnasia La Plata never got to play with a lead at all.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Marcos López signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Marcos López commits to Banfield for another 5 years.
Match17 Oct 2026
Alexander Machado rescues a point for Banfield
It needed Alexander Machado to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Gimnasia La Plata, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
In brief
- The dugout The view from the dugout
- The dugout No hiding place for Nicolás Rojas
- The dugout No place in the plan for Nehuén Paz