Monday, May 15, 2006

Boca Juniors capped its Argentine Apertura championship by defeating Olimpo Bahia Blanca 2-0 in the last round on Sunday amid thousands of happy fans at Bombonera stadium.
Matias Silvestre scored off a header in the 14th minute and Rodrigo Palacio made it 2-0 in the 59th for a seventh straight win for Boca, which won the tournament last week. It was Boca's fourth cup in less than a year, after the South American Recopa and Copa Sudamericana, and the Clausura championship.
Boca ended with 43 points, followed by Lanus with 35, River Plate with 34, Gimnasia Jujuy on 33, and Gimnasia La Plata at 32.
River Plate defeated host Quilmes 3-1 in a match which was suspended in the 67th minute because of fan violence.
Elsewhere, it was Instituto 1, Velez 1; Lanus 1, Estudiantes 1; Rosario Central 2, Independiente 0; Gimnasia Jujuy 2, Tiro Federal 1; Banfield 2, Gimnasia La Plata 0; and San Lorenzo 0, Arsenal 2.

Tuesday, May 09, 2006

Lanus drew 0-0 Saturday with Velez Sarsfield. In other games Saturday, Gimnasia La Plata beat Newell's 3-2 to move into third place, p***ing River Plate, which fell to fourth with a 2-0 loss to Racing.
Elsewhere Sunday, it was: Banfield 3, Argentinos Juniors 1; Arsenal 1, Instituto 1; Tiro Federal 1, Quilmes 1; Olimpo 1, Gimnasia Jujuy 0.
Later Sunday, Estudiantes hosted Rosario Central and Colon visited San Lorenzo.
With striker Sergio Aguero suspended, Independiente set up two defensive lines and employed only one attacker. However, it was able to create and several runs down the flanks, forcing Argentine national team keeper Roberto Abbondancieri into acrobatic saves on shots by Esteban Bujan and Gaston Machin.
Rodrigo Palacio and Martin Palermo scored one goal apiece and traded ***ists for Boca. Palacio put the Buenos Aires side ahead in the 38th with a shot from outside the penalty area after a long p*** from Palermo, who added the insurance in the 47th with a header off a cross by Palacio.
In the oldest derby in Argentine soccer, Racing beat crosstown rival River Plate, which played with a mostly reserve team to rest its regulars for the first leg of Copa Libertadores quarter-finals against Paraguay's Libertad on Thursday.
Maximiliano Moralez headed in a cross from Juan Manuel Torres in the 38th, and Claudio Fileppi made it 2-0 in injury time.
River midfielder Lucas Pusineri was red-carded in the 88th.

Thursday, May 04, 2006

Cranes skipper Ibrahim Sekagya was on Sunday night red-carded in the 90th minute for a second bookable offence as his Arsenal de Sarandi side suffered a 3-0 away defeat to Lanus in Argentina’s top flight. Sekagya had earlier been cautioned in the 36th minute. Strikes from Sebastián Leto in the third minute, Agustín Pelletieri in the 28th and Santiago Biglieri in the 31st sealed Arsenal’s fate.