Apertura 2010: Huracán 0 – 1 River Plate

By: Christian | August 16th, 2010

   

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Just my luck.

On a Sunday when River Plate post an impressive 1-0 victory over Huracán, TyC Sports, which shows most Primera games here in the States along with Fox Sports en Español, decides instead to show some basketball game between Argentina and Spain. Even the internet failed to provide my fix, as most streaming links I found online were either of low quality or simply failed to play. As a result, my only impression of the game came thanks to the TyC highlight show, Paso a Paso.

What I missed was a fine effort by los millonarios, and superb performances from veterans Ariel Ortega and Matías Almeyda. River were sharp with their passes, strong in defense, and overall, a much better side that played against Tigre last week. Facundo Affranchino had the games only goal in the 11th minute. The only negative was the sending off of Ortega in the 71st minute for an elbow to an opponent’s face, though replays showed that the contact was incidental and far from malicious.

So I’m bummed I missed the match, but no complaints from me about the outcome. Two games, six points – I’ll take that just fine, thank you very much. Next week, a huge home clásico against Independiente.

NOTE: There was an unfortunate point in the game where the referee had to stop play after hearing racist singing coming from the River section. I’m utterly disgusted to hear these kind of songs still being sung at games, even more so knowing that it came from River fans. It’s unfortunate that no one, not the club, the players, the fans, or the press, has come out against this. It’s an embarrassment to the club, and a blight on the world game. It should never happen, not at River Plate, not anywhere.

Category: 2010 Apertura, Team News

   

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• Jack |  August 17th, 2010 at 4:49 am

  
  
  

  Racist singing from the River fans? I did not hear about that, but I did hear about the Huracán fans chanting “asesino de mierda” at el enano when he left the pitch and borracho de mierda at orteguita when he left the pitch… those were the fans who have no class… espeically with regards to buonanotte and his car crash. he was in tears after the match.

  also- in regards to the TV rights that the government/AFA have ruined for those of us in the US, you can watch them live on riverplate.com which is the non-official site of the club, although i think the official site shows the matches as well. most clubs in the primera are now streaming the games live on their sites

  

• Mauro |  August 17th, 2010 at 2:46 pm

  
  
  

  Looks like Pavone trained with the rest of the players today and is going to try to give Funes-Mori a run for his money against Independiente.

  And why the hell was Ortega sent off? I saw the replay and he looked like HE was tripped by the player on the floor? Was he accused of purposely kicking that player? I had no audio on my feed, which I got from justin.tv BTW.

  

• Christian |  August 17th, 2010 at 3:08 pm

  
  
  

  I used the feed that riverplate.com posted on their site, which I assume is the same feed from Canal 9. I would get the audio fine, but then after a few minutes the video would freeze, then it would just buffer endlessly. I gave up after about 15 minutes.

  @Jack: Huracan fans are not the first ones to yell that at Buonanotte. There was one other set of fans who did last year, can’t remember who exactly. Maybe Estudiantes. Bunch of assholes.

  @Mauro: The replays I saw looked like Ortega fell over the player, and his elbow accidentally made contact with the guy’s face. A yellow maybe, no way a red card, though nobody really argued with the ref. Looking forward to seeing Pavone this Sunday, assuming of course I can watch the game

  

• Jack |  August 17th, 2010 at 8:44 pm

  
  
  

  It was Estudiantes. It happened during the match we played against them in Quilmes’s stadium. The whole night was “caliente” because there was also the clash/war of words between El Burrito and that HDP Desabato when he said “que te pasa borracho de mierda” and the estudiantes fans started chanting at El Enano when he came on as a sub and a number of estudiantes players were doing it too, desabato and cellay were the two main culprits as i recall. HDPs. Although Desabato once went to jail in Brazil for his racism against Grafite so it was to be expected from scum like him