The Estudiantes Chronicle
Player ratings7 Feb 2028
No sign of nerves from Santiago Segovia at 20 — 8.61
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Santiago Segovia did not need any: 8.61, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Player ratings7 Feb 2028
Age has not caught Alexis Castro yet — 8.25
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.25 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Market7 Feb 2028
Estudiantes say no — this time
The offer from USM Alger for Martino Botti 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.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Facundo Farías 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 Estudiantes this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Martino Botti is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Boardroom7 Feb 2028
6 academy players handed senior numbers at Estudiantes
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Alexis Domínguez signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Alexis Domínguez commits to Estudiantes for another 3 years.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Words at Estudiantes training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Santiago Núñez 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.
Match5 Feb 2028
Alexis Castro sends Estudiantes past Güemes
It finished 3‑1, and it was Alexis Castro’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Estudiantes.
In brief
- The terraces Estudiantes supporters have found a favourite in Santiago Segovia
- Market One of our own: Iván Cabrera joins the Estudiantes first team
- Market Estudiantes promote Cuyano from within