Marked for Giuliano Peralta
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad22 Mar 2027
Facundo Juárez damages knee ligaments — 35 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 35 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 ratings22 Mar 2027
Axel Oyola runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 31. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market22 Mar 2027
“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 The request is on a desk at Racing, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match20 Mar 2027
Whatever happens, Racing do not lose
7 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Tempers go at Racing
Abel Bustos 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.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Words at Racing training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ricardo Centurión 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.
Match20 Mar 2027
The goals have deserted Racing
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Racing can tell you which week it ends in.
Boardroom22 Mar 2027
Wages eat 166% of everything Racing earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Match20 Mar 2027
Nobody wins at Racing
8 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
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Uneasy
Squad15 Feb 2027
Facundo Juárez damages knee ligaments — 70 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 70 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.
Squad15 Feb 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Racing may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad15 Feb 2027
76 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Market15 Feb 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Racing can pretend not to have heard.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Abel Bustos 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 Racing this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match13 Feb 2027
It finished 2‑0, and it was Ignacio Valsangiácomo’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Racing.
Player ratings15 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings15 Feb 2027
A mark of 7.75, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Player ratings15 Feb 2027
Defensive actions: 15. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad18 Jan 2027
Facundo Juárez damages knee ligaments — 98 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 98 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.
Market18 Jan 2027
“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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Abel Bustos 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 Racing this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad21 Dec 2026
Facundo Juárez damages knee ligaments — 126 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 126 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 Dec 2026
“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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Abel Bustos 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 Racing this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match26 Aug 2026
Racing out of the cup
Boca Juniors ended it 0‑0. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Brian Olivera: 1 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Match29 Aug 2026
No end in sight to Racing's wait for a win
7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Racing has to find a result from somewhere.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Pablo Chavarría, 38, rolls back the years — 7.84
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.84 at 38, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Market31 Aug 2026
Racing say no — this time
The offer from Atromitos for Giuliano Peralta was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Abel Bustos 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 Racing this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Axel Oyola runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match29 Aug 2026
Whatever happens, Racing do not lose
6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Alejandro Rébola 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.