The Gimnasia y Esgrima Herald
Match5 Mar 2036
Gimnasia y Esgrima bow out of the cup
Güemes go through and Gimnasia y Esgrima go home, 0‑2 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Market10 Mar 2036
Gallito hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Gimnasia y Esgrima can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings10 Mar 2036
A brace, and Emiliano Zambrano takes the afternoon — 8.27
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Emiliano Zambrano provided it, and the 8.27 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings10 Mar 2036
Valentín Benítez, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.86
A mark of 7.86 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Player ratings10 Mar 2036
Nobody could get near Benjamín Gutiérrez
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad10 Mar 2036
Tempers go at Gimnasia y Esgrima
Giuliano Peralta 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.
The terraces10 Mar 2036
Gimnasia y Esgrima supporters have found a favourite in Valentín Benítez
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Valentín Benítez has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match8 Mar 2036
Gimnasia y Esgrima get the job done against Nueva Chicago
A 2‑0 win over Nueva Chicago, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad10 Mar 2036
The manager makes an example of Giuliano Peralta
“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.
In brief
- Squad Words at Gimnasia y Esgrima training over how hard people work
- Squad Jorge Miranda signs on for more
- Market The Emiliano Zambrano talk will not go away