The Banfield Herald
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Favio Álvarez scores twice — 8.25
Two goals and a mark of 8.25 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Ignacio Pais says Banfield went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Bruno Sepúlveda 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 Banfield this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
Graduation day at Banfield
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
Words at Banfield training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Favio Álvarez 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.
Match6 Feb 2027
Banfield see off Sarmiento
Three points for Banfield, 2‑1 the final word against Sarmiento in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Market8 Feb 2027
Turco steps up from the Banfield academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Turco has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market8 Feb 2027
One of our own: Gabriel Benítez joins the Banfield first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Gabriel Benítez is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market8 Feb 2027
Banfield promote Pato from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Pato 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.
In brief
- Market Banfield promote Iván Arias from within
- Squad Lucas Palavecino stays put
- Player ratings Tomás Adoryan runs at them all day