The Instituto Chronicle
Squad7 Sep 2026
Pedro Baster damages knee ligaments — 17 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 17 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
A defender's afternoon for Franco Moyano
Defensive actions: 25. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
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.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Nobody could get near Alex Luna
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Fernando Alarcón shuts the door
Defensive actions: 22, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Match5 Sep 2026
6 unbeaten for Instituto
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Instituto did not have in the autumn.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Gastón Lodico was on a different afternoon to everybody else
9.22. 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.
Match5 Sep 2026
Instituto get the job done against Vélez
A 1‑0 win over Vélez, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Juan Romero 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.
In brief
- Squad Too much change too quickly at Instituto
- Loan watch 3 goals on loan for Jonathan Dellarossa
- Market The shop window has Jonathan Brizuela in it