The San Martín Sentinel
Squad16 Aug 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Darío Sand
30 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. San Martín lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market16 Aug 2027
Matías García asks to leave San Martín
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
The dugout16 Aug 2027
Juan Orellana frozen out at San Martín
This is not rotation. Juan Orellana has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at San Martín is pretending otherwise.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Words exchanged at San Martín
Lautaro Ovando and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Facundo Pons 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.
Squad16 Aug 2027
San Martín count the cost of losing Roberto Ortiz
22 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Player ratings16 Aug 2027
Laureano Rodríguez takes the honours
Marked 7.53 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, San Martín had the best player on the pitch.
The dugout16 Aug 2027
Lautaro Ovando gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Lautaro Ovando is on it.
The dugout16 Aug 2027
Sergio Herrera on the point
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Sergio Herrera after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
In brief
- Looking ahead A test against the best for San Martín
- Match San Martín draw a blank against Maipú
- The dugout The plan did not have a place for Jorge Juárez