The Racing Sentinel
Match14 Jul 2029
No mercy from Racing
Progreso will want this one forgotten quickly: 7‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Racing were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Market16 Jul 2029
Terms done: Iván Manzur is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Progreso waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Racing is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Player ratings16 Jul 2029
A brace, and Bautista Tomatis takes the afternoon — 8.94
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Bautista Tomatis provided it, and the 8.94 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Market16 Jul 2029
Facundo Machado puts it in writing
“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 The request is on a desk at Racing, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad16 Jul 2029
Racing count the cost of losing Bautista Tomatis
57 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad16 Jul 2029
Tempers go at Racing
Bautista Tomatis 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.
Match14 Jul 2029
Nobody could stop scoring
7 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Racing and Progreso in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Market16 Jul 2029
Eyes on Manuel Ayala again
The phone has started ringing about Manuel Ayala again, and this time the name on the line is Albion. Racing are listening politely and promising nothing.
Player ratings16 Jul 2029
One of those days for Tomás Habib
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.57, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
In brief
- Player ratings One of those days for Esteban da Silva
- The dugout Guillermo Cotugno is still being punished for one mistake
- Squad Facundo Varela stays put