Marked for Thiago Amitrano
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Crisis
Squad5 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Germán Conti out for 94 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Gimnasia La Plata will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Thiago Amitrano damages knee ligaments — 19 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 19 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 ratings5 Oct 2026
A defender's goal wins it for Gimnasia La Plata — 7.67
1 for Ignacio Miramón, marked 7.67, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Johan Carbonero 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
At 22 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Match3 Oct 2026
1‑3 to Rosario Central, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Both jobs done by Augusto Max — 6.63
A midfielder is measured on whether the team functions when he is on the pitch, which is nearly impossible to see and completely obvious in retrospect. 10 actions, 6.63, and a manager who will not be substituting him again in a hurry.
Back issues
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Upbeat
Squad28 Sep 2026
Germán Conti breaks a bone — 101 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 101 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad28 Sep 2026
28 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Gimnasia La Plata lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match26 Sep 2026
2 behind and going nowhere, until Marcelo Torres decided otherwise. Aldosivi had done the hard part and then watched it come apart, and the noise at the final whistle was the sort a ground keeps.
Squad28 Sep 2026
The match ball belongs to Marcelo Torres, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
Market28 Sep 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Gimnasia La Plata they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad28 Sep 2026
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.
Match26 Sep 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Marcelo Torres. 4‑3 against Aldosivi, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.35, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“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.
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Steady
Squad21 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Germán Conti out for 108 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Gimnasia La Plata will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Thiago Amitrano damages knee ligaments — 36 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 36 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.
Market21 Sep 2026
Marcelo Torres has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Gimnasia La Plata they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Boardroom21 Sep 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Alexis Steimbach has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Squad21 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Gimnasia La Plata this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Agustín Auzmendi 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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
A performance of 8.46 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Match19 Sep 2026
It needed Johan Carbonero to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Tigre, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Marcelo Torres knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Gimnasia La Plata, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Steady
Squad14 Sep 2026
116 days out for Germán Conti after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Gimnasia La Plata will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Thiago Amitrano damages knee ligaments — 44 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 44 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 ratings14 Sep 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.21 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market14 Sep 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Pedro Silva Torrejón will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Gimnasia La Plata the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Nicolás Barros Schelotto, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 8.30
A mark of 8.30 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Market14 Sep 2026
“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 Gimnasia La Plata, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 27. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.