The Independiente Herald
Market10 Apr 2028
Diego Segovia asks to leave Independiente
“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.
Squad10 Apr 2028
Tempers go at Independiente
Santiago Arias was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad10 Apr 2028
The manager makes an example of Santiago Montiel
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad10 Apr 2028
Independiente lose Patricio Ostachuk
97 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad10 Apr 2028
Ezequiel Moretti out for 29 days
The medical room confirms 29 days on the sidelines for Ezequiel Moretti, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Player ratings10 Apr 2028
Kevin López in the eights
A performance of 8.28 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings10 Apr 2028
Lautaro Millán in the eights
A performance of 8.12 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings10 Apr 2028
One of those days for Mateo Pérez Curci
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.06, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Match8 Apr 2028
Honours even between Independiente and Gimnasia y Esgrima
4‑4, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
In brief
- Player ratings Luciano Cabral runs at them all day
- The terraces Everybody has an opinion about Rodrigo Rey
- Market The Juan Manuel Villalba story refuses to die