The River Plate Sentinel
Match5 Feb 2028
No mercy from River Plate
Aldosivi will want this one forgotten quickly: 3‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. River Plate were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Squad7 Feb 2028
A fracture rules Andrés Herrera out for 85 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason River Plate will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings7 Feb 2028
Santino Viollaz, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 8.55
A mark of 8.55 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Player ratings7 Feb 2028
Nothing got past Mauro Arambarri
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 26 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Dominik Takáč stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Dominik Takáč and River Plate agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Mauro Arambarri 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 River Plate this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Words at River Plate training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nicolás Otamendi 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.
Boardroom7 Feb 2028
6 academy players handed senior numbers at River Plate
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.
The terraces7 Feb 2028
The crowd has taken to Santino Viollaz
At 19 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Benjamín González joins the River Plate first team
- Market One of our own: Julián Silva joins the River Plate first team
- Market Carlos Alberto Colombo steps up from the River Plate academy