The Gimnasia y Tiro Sentinel
Squad31 Aug 2026
Juan Rocca damages knee ligaments — 22 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 22 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
Fabricio Rojas breaks San Miguel hearts
Some goals win a match and some take one off somebody else. Fabricio Rojas scored in the 87th minute, San Miguel had already begun thinking about the journey home, and Gimnasia y Tiro took the lot.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Ivo Chaves 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 Gimnasia y Tiro this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match29 Aug 2026
Whatever happens, Gimnasia y Tiro do not lose
6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Match29 Aug 2026
Gimnasia y Tiro get the job done against San Miguel
A 1‑0 win over San Miguel, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Nicolás Contín
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Gonzalo Soto gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Adolfo Tallura 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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Fabricio Rojas takes the honours
Marked 7.75 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Gimnasia y Tiro had the best player on the pitch.
In brief
- Player ratings Matías Birge shuts the door
- Player ratings Off the bench and decisive: Walter Busse