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Crisis
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 36. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Match26 Aug 2026
Out, 0‑1 to Platense, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Market31 Aug 2026
The bid was some way short and Atlético Tucumán did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Leandro Díaz 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 Atlético Tucumán this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Kevin Ortiz 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.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Martín Benítez, and the manager let it.
Match29 Aug 2026
Barracas Central left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
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Upbeat
Match22 Aug 2026
2 in front and in complete control, and it finished with Estudiantes the happier side. There is no version of this afternoon that Atlético Tucumán will enjoy reviewing.
Market24 Aug 2026
Celta come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Atlético Tucumán did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.01, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
At 34 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.01, and nobody on the pitch better.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Leandro Díaz and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
One scored and one made, which is a different afternoon from scoring twice and an easier one to overlook. Marked 7.98, and involved in 2 of his side's goals.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Atlético Tucumán training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tomás Durso is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
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Upbeat
Market17 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Age has not caught Alexis Canelo yet — 7.81
At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.81 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Leandro Díaz and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Atlético Tucumán training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tomás Durso is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
The form table has caught Tomás Durso
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
Match15 Aug 2026
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Gael Navarro was not hiding it after 1‑1, and nobody in the Atlético Tucumán dressing room was either.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
No place in the plan for Leandro Díaz
The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
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Triumph
Market10 Aug 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ramiro Ruiz Rodríguez will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Atlético Tucumán the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market10 Aug 2026
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” FC Cincinnati had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Leandro Díaz, 34, rolls back the years — 7.83
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.83 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Market10 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Ramiro Ruiz Rodríguez has agreed terms with Estudiantes for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Leandro Díaz 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 Atlético Tucumán this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ramiro Ruiz Rodríguez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match8 Aug 2026
It finished 2‑1, and it was Leandro Díaz’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Atlético Tucumán.
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Triumph
Market3 Aug 2026
Levadiakos come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Atlético Tucumán did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Leandro Díaz commits to Atlético Tucumán for another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Leandro Díaz 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.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Atlético Tucumán training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tomás Durso is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The terraces3 Aug 2026
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Market3 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Atlético Tucumán have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Match1 Aug 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Franco Nicola. 1‑0 against Gimnasia La Plata, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Market3 Aug 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.