Marked for Alejandro Martínez
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad3 Nov 2031
17 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Lanús lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad3 Nov 2031
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 59 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match28 Oct 2031
The cup run ends for Lanús
0‑5 against River Plate, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Squad3 Nov 2031
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market3 Nov 2031
“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 terraces3 Nov 2031
A cup hiding at River Plate leaves Lanús explaining themselves
0-5, and long before the end the away end had switched from encouragement to something considerably more pointed. Nobody rings a phone-in about losing narrowly.
Boardroom3 Nov 2031
Pressure builds in the Lanús boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
The dugout3 Nov 2031
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Match1 Nov 2031
4 matches without a win for Lanús
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Lanús are no longer polite ones.
In brief
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Squad
Words exchanged at Lanús
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The dugout
The manager makes an example of Lautaro Amadé
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Match
Lanús caught on 87 minutes
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Crisis
Squad27 Oct 2031
A fracture rules Jonathan Berón out for 66 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Lanús will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad27 Oct 2031
24 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Lanús lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match21 Oct 2031
Lanús come up short in Europe
0‑1 away to the standard of Universidad Catolica. Nobody will pretend this was a scandal; the gap is real, it is measurable, and closing it is a project rather than a team talk.
Market27 Oct 2031
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Lanús, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market27 Oct 2031
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Lanús they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad27 Oct 2031
Tempers go at Lanús
Lautaro Amadé 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.
Loan watch27 Oct 2031
35 appearances away from home and 17 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
Squad27 Oct 2031
Words at Lanús training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Santiago Kubiszyn is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Match25 Oct 2031
0‑1 to Boca Juniors, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
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Uneasy
Squad20 Oct 2031
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 73 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad20 Oct 2031
31 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Lanús lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings20 Oct 2031
A brace, and Camilo Durán takes the afternoon — 8.95
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Camilo Durán provided it, and the 8.95 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Market20 Oct 2031
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Lanús is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad20 Oct 2031
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Lanús this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad20 Oct 2031
Words at Lanús training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Santiago Kubiszyn is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Match18 Oct 2031
Platense made Lanús work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Match18 Oct 2031
It had gone 5 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.
Loan watch20 Oct 2031
28 appearances at Deportes Limache and the goals keep coming. Lanús are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
In brief
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The dugout
Lautaro Amadé dropped after a run of poor form
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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The dugout
Camilo Durán gets picked when it counts
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad13 Oct 2031
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 80 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad13 Oct 2031
Alejandro Martínez damages knee ligaments — 38 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 38 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market13 Oct 2031
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Lanús, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad13 Oct 2031
A falling-out at Lanús
Lautaro Amadé and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad13 Oct 2031
Words at Lanús training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Santiago Kubiszyn is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The dugout13 Oct 2031
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Juan Cruz Guasone, and the manager let it.
The dugout13 Oct 2031
Gonzalo Pérez 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 Gonzalo Pérez is on it.
Loan watch13 Oct 2031
26 appearances away from home and 9 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
Market13 Oct 2031
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Lanús, another week without a signature from Juan Cruz Guasone.