The Instituto Chronicle
Squad21 Feb 2028
Emanuel Bilbao keeps Instituto in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad21 Feb 2028
Gastón Lodico 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 Instituto this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Feb 2028
Words at Instituto training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jonathan Galván 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 ratings21 Feb 2028
Jeremías Lázaro runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings21 Feb 2028
Ninety minutes of Gonzalo Requena at his very best
Marked 8.11. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Instituto.
Player ratings21 Feb 2028
Gastón Lodico in the eights
A performance of 8.07 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad21 Feb 2028
Valentín Pucheta out for 19 days
The medical room confirms 19 days on the sidelines for Valentín Pucheta, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Match19 Feb 2028
Gonzalo Requena rescues a point for Instituto
It needed Gonzalo Requena to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Independiente, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Player ratings21 Feb 2028
Tiziano Dornell could have had three
11 attempts, none of them in. He got into the right places all afternoon, which is the hard part, and did the easy part badly — and that is the version of a bad day a manager can live with.
In brief
- Market Gastón Lodico linked with a move away
- Boardroom The Instituto production line keeps running