The Gimnasia La Plata Gazette
Squad7 Feb 2028
Nelson Insfrán damages knee ligaments — 28 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 28 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.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Lautaro Maldonado keeps Gimnasia La Plata in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Tempers go at Gimnasia La Plata
Juan Pintado 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.
Boardroom7 Feb 2028
Graduation day at Gimnasia La Plata
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.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Jeremías Merlo 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 ratings7 Feb 2028
Nothing got past Gonzalo Errecalde
21 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
Player ratings7 Feb 2028
Alexis Steimbach was immovable
21 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.
The terraces7 Feb 2028
Gimnasia La Plata supporters have found a favourite in Jeremías Merlo
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Jeremías Merlo has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match5 Feb 2028
Gimnasia La Plata see off Estudiantes
Three points for Gimnasia La Plata, 2‑0 the final word against Estudiantes in a contest settled by the finer margins.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Hernán Ojeda joins the Gimnasia La Plata first team
- Market Gimnasia La Plata promote Mateo Colombo from within
- Market Luis Alberto Miranda steps up from the Gimnasia La Plata academy