September 2017
Colon 1-4 Huracan
Kamahara (6, 10, 47)
Machin (66)
We recovered from the last defeat with a great victory, with Kamahara bagging an early hat-trick. At 3-0, Colon had a player sent off, and we made them pay with a fourth goal, another superb finish from Machin. But minutes after that, we went down to ten men when Antonio Jose got injured and we had already used all three subs. They pulled one back, but we cruised to a comfortable three points.
Huracan 2-0 Tigre
Kamahara (59, 87)
A great win, and Kamahara made it five goals from two matches with another brilliant performance. I was pleased with the clean sheet, and we looked lethal in attack.
Chacarita 0-2 Huracan
Lentini (9)
Bruno (29)
I rested a couple of players for this match, but it didn’t show. We put in a dominant performance and had the quality to put the game beyond them early on. We are on some good form at the moment, but we still have ground to make up on the teams above us.
Boca 2-1 Huracan
Bruno (88)
This was a game we had to take something out of, and we didn’t do that. I actually thought we were the better team, but we somehow found ourselves 2-0 down after just 34 minutes. But a few minutes later, we were handed a lifeline when we were awarded a penalty. But Diaz missed, and I have to say I saw it coming. We continued to battle, and pulled one back late on, but it wasn’t enough.
Huracan 2-0 Independiente
Bruno (18)
Diaz (pen 35)
We bounced back well, with Bruno giving us the lead with his third goal in as many games. Later on in the first half, we were given another penalty. But this time, Diaz put it away and we were out of sight. Our forma against this calibre of team has been very good this season.
It doesn’t look great in sixth, but we are only four points off surprise package Racing Club at the top. Like I said, our form against the mid-table teams has been superb, but we have lost to both Velez and Boca this season.
Algeria
We had two World Cup qualifiers this month. After losing our first game at home to Senegal, before beating Tunisia, we wanted six points. And something had to change, as we had not been playing well at all, and our last match was a 1-0 friendly defeat to Australia. I opted to change to a more fluid approach, but still keeping to the same formation. And we seem to have finally found a quality striker to spearhead the team, and that player is Abdelkader Saadaoui.
Congo 0-3 Algeria
Feghouli (19, 26)
Bouzid (69)
A superb performance from Feghouli, and the rest of the team played well as well. Saadaoui made his first start up front, but had to come off injured and has now withdrawn from the squad.
Tunisia 0-0 Algeria
O.G. (16)
I am gutted we didn’t get the three points. We dominated the match, but were shocked by their equaliser four minutes into first half stoppage time.
So we got off to a terrible start against Senegal, but we have recovered well. And we now sit top of the group, and have a good chance of qualifying. If we beat Congo, we put ourselves into a great position going into our final match in Senegal.