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The Newell's Old Boys Herald

9 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad9 Aug 2027

Rodrigo Herrera keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Newell's Old Boys may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad9 Aug 2027

A one-man rearguard from Lautaro Maldonado

There were 7 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.

Squad9 Aug 2027

Tempers go at Newell's Old Boys

Michael Hoyos 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.

Squad9 Aug 2027

Words at Newell's Old Boys training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ignacio Ramírez 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.

Player ratings9 Aug 2027

One of those days for Oscar Salomón

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.10, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Match7 Aug 2027

Oscar Salomón the difference as Newell's Old Boys beat Platense

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Oscar Salomón. 2‑1 against Platense, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Player ratings9 Aug 2027

Ninety minutes of Guillermo Balzi at his very best

Marked 8.91. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Newell's Old Boys.

Player ratings9 Aug 2027

Michael Hoyos runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings9 Aug 2027

The chances came and went for Ignacio Ramírez

5 shots, and a count that reads like a good afternoon until you check the other column. Strikers survive weeks like this on the understanding that the chances keep arriving; the day they stop is the day it becomes a problem.

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The Newell's Old Boys Herald

7 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Match2 Jun 2027

Job done: Newell's Old Boys advance past Banfield

The tie is over and the right side of it is theirs. 2‑2 on the night, a dressing room that will not come down for a day and a half, and a next round nobody has thought about yet.

Squad7 Jun 2027

Lautaro Maldonado is the hero from the spot

A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Lautaro Maldonado: 2 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.

Player ratings7 Jun 2027

No sign of nerves from Valentino Acuña at 21 — 8.43

The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Valentino Acuña did not need any: 8.43, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Market7 Jun 2027

Williams Barlasina puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Newell's Old Boys, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad7 Jun 2027

Michael Hoyos 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 Newell's Old Boys this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad7 Jun 2027

Ignacio Ramírez 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.

Squad7 Jun 2027

The manager makes an example of Oscar Salomón

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

The terraces7 Jun 2027

Newell's Old Boys supporters have found a favourite in Valentino Acuña

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Valentino Acuña has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Player ratings7 Jun 2027

Ian Glavinovich was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.69. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

In brief