The Estudiantes Chronicle
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Gabriel Neves shuts the door
Defensive actions: 36, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Santiago Núñez was immovable
32 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Gastón Benedetti was immovable
28 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Guido Carrillo, 35, rolls back the years — 8.49
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.49 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Daniel Acosta keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Estudiantes may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
Graduation day at Estudiantes
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Edwuin Cetré 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.
Market8 Feb 2027
Estudiantes promote Hernán Castro from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Hernán Castro has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market8 Feb 2027
One of our own: Alejandro Vidal joins the Estudiantes first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Alejandro Vidal is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Bautista Russo steps up from the Estudiantes academy
- Market One of our own: Miguel Aguirre joins the Estudiantes first team
- Match Estudiantes find a way past Agropecuario Argentino