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Marked for Toro

578 Edition

The Estudiantes Gazette

24 Aug 2037
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad24 Aug 2037

Tuerto says Estudiantes 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.

Boardroom24 Aug 2037

150% of the income goes out in wages at Estudiantes

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

Match22 Aug 2037

Agropecuario Argentino take the points off Estudiantes

Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad24 Aug 2037

Words at Estudiantes training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Francisco Suárez 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.

Squad24 Aug 2037

No hiding place for Leonel Herrera

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Leonel Herrera, and the manager let it.

Player ratings24 Aug 2037

Nobody could get near Bill

Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad24 Aug 2037

Costly mistake from Claudio Lopez

An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Claudio Lopez knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.

Player ratings24 Aug 2037

The chances came and went for Nicolás Valdemarín

8 shots, and a count that reads like a good afternoon until you check the other column. Strikers survive weeks like this on the understanding that the chances keep arriving; the day they stop is the day it becomes a problem.

Player ratings24 Aug 2037

Tuerto never got going

5.61 on the card. Some afternoons a footballer looks like a man who has only just been introduced to the game, and this was one of them.

In brief

Back issues
577 Edition

The Estudiantes Gazette

17 Aug 2037
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad17 Aug 2037

Bill 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.

Squad17 Aug 2037

Nicolás Garnica is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.35 with 4 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Player ratings17 Aug 2037

Nobody could get near Bill

Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad17 Aug 2037

When it matters, Tomás González plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Match15 Aug 2037

Honours even between Estudiantes and Almirante Brown

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

Squad17 Aug 2037

Miguel Castillo 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.

In brief

572 Edition

The Estudiantes Gazette

13 Jul 2037
From our football correspondent Steady

Match11 Jul 2037

12 unbeaten for Estudiantes

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 12 matches without defeat is a foundation Estudiantes did not have in the autumn.

Squad13 Jul 2037

Nicolás Valdemarín is carrying Estudiantes

19 goals and a season average of 7.53. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Squad13 Jul 2037

Tomás González 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.

Squad13 Jul 2037

Words at Estudiantes training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Francisco Suárez 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.

Squad13 Jul 2037

Claudio Lopez lets one through his hands

A defender's mistake gets tidied up by somebody else; a goalkeeper's ends up in the net. He knew before the ball crossed the line, and so did everybody in the ground.

Match11 Jul 2037

Estudiantes and Newell's Old Boys take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

Market13 Jul 2037

Tobías Ostchega linked with a move away

The name of Tobías Ostchega keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Estudiantes say nothing, which says plenty.

Player ratings13 Jul 2037

Nobody could get near Francisco Suárez

Successful dribbles: 12. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings13 Jul 2037

Off the pace: Toro

A mark of 5.70 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.

In brief