The Los Andes Courier
Match5 Sep 2026
5 matches without a win for Los Andes
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Los Andes are no longer polite ones.
Match5 Sep 2026
5 matches without a goal for Los Andes
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 5 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Market7 Sep 2026
Mariano Tota asks to leave Los Andes
“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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Los Andes
Brian Leizza 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Matías Gómez 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 Sep 2026
Matías Gómez gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad7 Sep 2026
An unwelcome headline for Benjamín Garay
He will be fined, he will apologise, and he will play on Saturday. The order of those three tells you everything about what a football club actually values.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Mauricio Asenjo could have had three
8 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.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Juan Manuel Vázquez runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 12. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
In brief
- Match Point won or two lost for Los Andes?
- Player ratings Matías Gómez could not find anything
- Player ratings Brian Leizza was immovable