The Banfield Herald
Squad8 Feb 2027
Diego Rodríguez breaks a bone — 129 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 129 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Both of them Tomás Adoryan's — 8.18
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.18, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Lisandro Piñero, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 7.75
A mark of 7.75 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.
Match6 Feb 2027
7 unbeaten for Banfield
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 7 matches without defeat is a foundation Banfield did not have in the autumn.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A falling-out at Banfield
Diego Rodríguez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
3 academy graduates step up at Banfield
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Ignacio Abraham 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.
The terraces8 Feb 2027
The crowd has taken to Lisandro Piñero
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.
Match6 Feb 2027
Banfield find a way past Racing
Racing made Banfield work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
In brief
- Market Banfield promote Benjamín Varela from within
- Market One of our own: Benjamín Ramírez joins the Banfield first team
- Market Luis Moreno steps up from the Banfield academy