Nicolás Olivera

Central Defender - River Plate U20
29 Jan 2029
Monday
Process

Marked for Nicolás Olivera

99 Edition

The River Plate Gazette

19 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

River Plate refuse to drop out of the race

Position 3, 31 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from José Arbío

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Squad

Mauricio Lemos 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 River Plate this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Colon join the queue for Agustín Mora

Add another name to the list: Colon have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Agustín Mora. The answer from River Plate has not changed — yet.

Player ratings

João Lourenço in the eights

A performance of 8.96 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Match

River Plate find a way past Artigas

Artigas made River Plate work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings

One of those days for Felipe Chiappini

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.12, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad

No hiding place for Gonzalo Pelúa

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Gonzalo Pelúa, and the manager let it.

Squad

River Plate count the cost of losing Nicolás Olivera

15 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

In brief