The Defensores Post
Match12 Sep 2026
8 matches without a win for Defensores
The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Defensores are no longer polite ones.
Market14 Sep 2026
Fabián Sánchez 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 The request is on a desk at Defensores, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Patricio Moyano runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 30. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Alejandro Medina 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 Defensores this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Patricio Moyano 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
Defensores come up short against Temperley
Temperley left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad14 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Alejandro Medina
“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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Agustín Benítez is still paying for one afternoon at Defensores
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
Market14 Sep 2026
Defensores and Santino Robles are talking past each other
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
In brief
- Market Valentin Pisacreta leaves for nothing
- Market Santiago Nardozza leaves for nothing