The Ferro Carril Oeste Sentinel
Player ratings22 Mar 2027
Mateo Acosta, 34, 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 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.
The dugout22 Mar 2027
Matías Zubowicz: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Ferro Carril Oeste have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market22 Mar 2027
Joaquín Maroni hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Ferro Carril Oeste can pretend not to have heard.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Mateo Acosta 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 Ferro Carril Oeste this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad22 Mar 2027
A row about effort at Ferro Carril Oeste
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Lautaro Parisi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout22 Mar 2027
Matías Kabalín 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.
Match20 Mar 2027
Ferro Carril Oeste get the job done against Tristán Suárez
A 1‑0 win over Tristán Suárez, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings22 Mar 2027
Lautaro Parisi was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 16. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
The dugout22 Mar 2027
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Maximiliano Torres kept it short after the 1‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
In brief
- The dugout The plan did not have a place for Matías Kabalín
- Market The Matías Kabalín talk will not go away
- Squad Uriel Valdez: “I am not a substitute”