The La Luz Post
Squad22 Mar 2027
Mauricio Aquino decides it from twelve yards
3 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.
Match17 Mar 2027
Cup progress for La Luz
A 1‑1 win over River Plate, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Player ratings22 Mar 2027
Nobody could get near Nahuel Albano
Successful dribbles: 27. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match20 Mar 2027
No end in sight to La Luz's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at La Luz has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Jhonathan Ramis falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Nahuel Albano in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at La Luz this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad22 Mar 2027
No hiding place for Pablo Porcile
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Pablo Porcile, and the manager let it.
Player ratings22 Mar 2027
Horacio Sequeira takes the honours
Marked 7.85 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, La Luz had the best player on the pitch.
Boardroom22 Mar 2027
Wages eat 92% of everything La Luz earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
In brief
- Player ratings The cruellest goal, and it is Germán Gabriel's
- Match No goals between La Luz and Colon
- Player ratings Pablo Porcile spends the afternoon fouling