The Banfield Herald
The dugout8 Feb 2027
Renzo Malanca: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Banfield have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words exchanged at Banfield
Lautaro Ríos 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.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
1 academy players handed senior numbers at Banfield
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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A row about effort at Banfield
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Tomás Adoryan was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match6 Feb 2027
Banfield find a way past Güemes
Güemes made Banfield work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Market8 Feb 2027
Banfield promote Sergio Ojeda from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Sergio Ojeda has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Ninety minutes of David Zalazar at his very best
Marked 8.22. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Banfield.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
Santiago Esquivel 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.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Favio Álvarez runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
In brief
- The dugout Martín Campos: “That is the standard”
- The dugout Somebody else is better right now than Lautaro Gómez
- Squad David Zalazar is off the mark for Banfield