Racing Club v Sportivo Luqueno

After one day off, tonight live the football was back! This time to watch Racing Club, another of the big 5, play Sportivo Luqueno from Paraguay in the Copa Sudamerica (the equivalent of the South American Europa League).

However, the match was not played at Racing Club's stadium, but two stops further on the train at Lanus' stadium. This was due to Racing's 50,000 seater stadium failing a pitch inspection, despite there having been no bad weather for an age. One thing we have noticed is that the standard of the pitches in most of these huge Premier Division stadiums have been terrible.

So, we hopped in an Uber for 45 minutes to get to Lanus' ground, this time for a 9:30pm (!!!) kick off, on a school night. When purchasing our tickets we either had the choices of the 'popular' section or the away end. We therfore opted for the popular which was full of the most passionate supporters, including a man with no legs who spent the game climbing the perimeter fence. In fairness to him it was the only way for him to actually see the pitch.

The atmosphere was probably the best we'd experienced as Racing cruised to an easy 3-0 victory. Not much else to say about the game itself!

During the match we spotted a familiar face who by sheer coincidence came and stood next to us. It was a Czech / American / Canadian guy who was on our Bocs tour. He was probably a bit scared when a hooded Dan prodded him in the shoulder but he recognised us in the end!

We then all shared an Uber back into town after the match, which got us back to our apartment at half past midnight. A late night but definitely worthwhile!Читать далее