The River Plate Sentinel
Match18 Oct 2027
River Plate refuse to drop out of the race
Position 2, 23 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Squad18 Oct 2027
A fracture rules Tobías Bacar out for 36 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason River Plate will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Loan watch18 Oct 2027
14 clean sheets on loan for Santiago Beltrán
36 appearances at Jaguares and the goals have stopped going in. River Plate lent out a goalkeeper and are watching somebody else’s season get better every week.
Market18 Oct 2027
River Plate promote Juan Carlos Luna from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Juan Carlos Luna 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.
Market18 Oct 2027
River Plate promote Jorge Ortiz from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Jorge Ortiz 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.
Market18 Oct 2027
Juan Martín Domínguez steps up from the River Plate academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Juan Martín Domínguez has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market18 Oct 2027
One of our own: Daniel Ortiz joins the River Plate first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Daniel Ortiz is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Match16 Oct 2027
Mauro Arambarri the difference as River Plate beat Belgrano
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Mauro Arambarri. 1‑0 against Belgrano, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings18 Oct 2027
Mauro Arambarri was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.25. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
In brief
- Squad Matías Galarza in a row with a teammate
- Loan watch The goals keep arriving from Thiago Acosta’s exile
- Player ratings Ángel Correa runs at them all day