The Gimnasia La Plata Gazette
Squad6 Sep 2027
Benjamín García breaks a bone — 55 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 55 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings6 Sep 2027
Nobody could get near Lucas Castro
Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match4 Sep 2027
The wait goes on for Gimnasia La Plata
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad6 Sep 2027
At 21, Jeremías Merlo is already the best thing here
An average of 7.17 in a first team he is several years too young for. Gimnasia La Plata have something, and by now the whole division has noticed.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Tempers go at Gimnasia La Plata
Ignacio Miramón 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.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Words at Gimnasia La Plata training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Maximiliano Zalazar 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.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
Gimnasia La Plata agree a free transfer for Thiago Gómez
Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.
Player ratings6 Sep 2027
Juan José Pérez was on a different afternoon to everybody else
9.00. 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.
Market6 Sep 2027
Diego Mastrángelo wants European nights
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
In brief
- Loan watch Lautaro Napolitano wants to come home
- Match Juan Ignacio Barbieri rescues a point for Gimnasia La Plata
- Player ratings Juan Ignacio Barbieri turns it into his own net