The Independiente Herald
Match5 Feb 2028
7 matches without a win for Independiente
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Independiente are no longer polite ones.
Market7 Feb 2028
Federico Mancuello has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Independiente they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Santiago Arias 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 Independiente this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market7 Feb 2028
Cristian Iglesias is a Independiente player again
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Market7 Feb 2028
Liam Muñoz comes home
The shirt still fits. Liam Muñoz is back at Independiente, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Market7 Feb 2028
As if he never left: Federico Costa returns
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Federico Costa is a Independiente player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Player ratings7 Feb 2028
Lautaro Millán runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Rodrigo Rey 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 ratings7 Feb 2028
Luciano Cabral in the eights
A performance of 8.45 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
In brief
- Loan watch Martín Leal has seen enough of Deportivo Municipal
- Match Independiente share the spoils with Güemes
- Player ratings The one thing Luka Jović could not do