2014 Club Atlético Independiente season

The 2014 season is Independiente's first season back in the Primera División, following one season in the Primera B Nacional. Independiente this season going to play in the Argentine Primera División and be Continue Copa Argentina.

Independiente

2014 season
President	Hugo Moyano
Manager	Jorge Almiron
Stadium	Estadio Libertadores de América
Argentine Primera División	3rd
Copa Argentina	Elimited In Round of 16
Top goalscorer	League: Federico Mancuello (9) All: Federico Mancuello (9)
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Current squad

Last updated on 16 October 2014

Squad No.	Name	Nationality	Position	Date of Birth (Age)	Signed from	Note
Goalkeepers
1	Diego Rodríguez		GK	June 25, 1989	Independiente
12	Facundo Daffonchio		GK	February 2, 1990	Independiente
22	Germán Montoya		GK	January 23, 1983	Colón
30	Alan Depotte		GK	May 18, 1993	Independiente
Defenders
2	Cristian Tula (VC)		DF	March 28, 1978	Atlético Nacional
3	Lucas Villalba		DF	December 5, 1987	Independiente
4	Néstor Breitenbruch		DF	September 13, 1995	Independiente	Injury
6	Sergio Ojeda		DF	January 4, 1992	Independiente
13	Rodrigo Moreira		DF	June 15, 1993	Independiente
15	Jorge Figal		DF	April 3, 1994	Independiente
25	Alexis Zárate		DF	April 8, 1994	Independiente
27	Víctor Cuesta		DF	November 19, 1988	Arsenal
28	Gabriel Vallés		DF	May 31, 1986	Godoy Cruz	Injury
31	Rafael Barrios		DF	May 23, 1993	Independiente
34	Sergio Escudero		DF	April 12, 1983	Criciúma
	Emanuel Aguilera		DF	June 11, 1989	Godoy Cruz
Midfielders
5	Franco Bellocq		MF	October 15, 1993	Independiente
8	Jesús Méndez		MF	August 1, 1984	Rosario Central
10	Federico Insúa		MF	January 3, 1980	Vélez Sarsfield
11	Federico Mancuello (C)		MF	March 26, 1989	Belgrano
14	Fabián Monserrat		MF	June 25, 1992	Independiente
16	Jorge Iván Pérez		MF	May 23, 1990	San Martín de San Juan
20	Christian Ortiz		MF	August 20, 1990	Independiente
23	Daniel Montenegro (VC)		MF	March 28, 1979	América
24	Marcelo Vidal		MF	January 15, 1991	Independiente
26	Rodrigo Gómez		MF	January 2, 1993	Argentinos Juniors
32	Matías Pisano		MF	1991 (age 29–30)	Chacarita
33	Leonel Miranda		MF	January 7, 1994	Independiente
37	Juan Manuel Trejo		MF	August 19, 1994	Independiente	Injury
Forwards
7	Francisco Pizzini		FW	September 19, 1993	Independiente
9	Sebastián Penco		FW	September 22, 1983	San Martín (SJ)
17	Patricio Vidal		FW	April 8, 1992	Unión Española
19	Juan Martín Lucero		FW	November 30, 1991	Defensa y Justicia
21	Claudio Riaño		FW	August 1, 1988	Boca Juniors
29	Martín Benítez		FW	June 17, 1994	Independiente
35	Maximiliano Herrera		FW	January 8, 1993	Chacarita Juniors
36	Eloy Rodriguez		FW	May 3, 1993	Boca Unidos

Players out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player — DF  ARG Cristian Báez (at Deportes Iquique) — MF  ARG Walter Busse (at Manta) — DF  ARG Federico Gay (at Aldosivi) — DF  PAR Adrián Fernández (at Quilmes Atlético Club) — MF  ARG Lucas Villafáñez ( Panetolikos) — FW  ARG Leonel Buter (at Douglas Haig)

Transfers

Players In Name Nat Pos Moving from Patricio Vidal  ARG FW Unión Española Lucas Villafáñez  ARG MF Huracán Eloy Rodriguez  ARG FW Boca Unidos Maximiliano Herrera  ARG FW Chacarita Juniors Iván Pérez  ARG MF San Martín de San Juan Juan Martín Lucero  ARG FW Defensa y Justicia Jesús Méndez  ARG MF Rosario Central Germán Montoya  ARG GK Colon Claudio Riaño  ARG FW Boca Juniors Rodrigo Gómez  ARG MF Argentinos Juniors Víctor Cuesta  ARG DF Arsenal Sergio Escudero  ARG DF Criciúma Emanuel Aguilera  ARG DF Godoy Cruz

Players Out Name Nat Pos Moving to Martín Zapata  ARG MF Argentinos Juniors Cristian Menéndez  ARG FW Atlético Tucumán Reinaldo Alderete  ARG MF Ferro Carril Oeste Fabián Assmann  ARG GK Mérida Leonel Buter  ARG MF Douglas Haig Samuel Cáceres  ARG DF Nueva Chicago Adrián Fernández  PAR FW Quilmes Hernán Fredes  ARG MF Arsenal Hilario Navarro  ARG GK Estudiantes Facundo Parra  ARG MF Asteras Tripolis Julián Velázquez  ARG DF

Position	Staff
Manager	Jorge Almiron

Source: clubaindependiente.com

Friendlies

  Win   Draw   Loss   Postponed

12 July 2014 Pre-season	Independiente	1 – 1	Atlético Mineiro	Gran Buenos Aires, Argentina
	Mancuello  17'	Report	Ronaldinho  45' (p)	Stadium: Ezeiza Partido Referee: Ariel Penel

12 July 2014 Pre-season	Independiente	0 – 2	Atlético Mineiro	Gran Buenos Aires, Argentina
		Report	Guilherme Dátolo	Stadium: Ezeiza Partido Referee: Ariel Penel

16 July 2014 Pre-season	Independiente	2 – 0	Vélez Sarsfield	Villa Olímpica
9:30	Penco  58' Mancuello  64'			Stadium: Villa Olímpica, Argentina Referee: Juan Battaglia

16 July 2014 Pre-season	Independiente	1 – 1	Vélez Sarsfield	Villa Olímpica
9:30	Fausto Grillo  65' (og)		Fausto Grillo  43'	Stadium: Villa Olímpica, Argentina Referee: Juan Battaglia

19 July 2014 Pre-season	Independiente	0 – 0	Deportivo Armenio	Avellaneda, Buenos Aires
		Report		Stadium: Estadio Libertadores de América

19 July 2014 Pre-season	Independiente	0 – 0	Deportivo Armenio	Avellaneda, Buenos Aires
		Report		Stadium: Estadio Libertadores de América

24 July 2014 Pre-season	Independiente	1 – 0	Villa Dálmine	Avellaneda, Buenos Aires
	Mancuello  32'	Report		Stadium: Estadio Libertadores de América

24 July 2014 Pre-season	Independiente	3 – 0	Villa Dálmine	Avellaneda, Buenos Aires
	Marcelo Vidal  31' Benítez  74' (79)	Report		Stadium: Estadio Libertadores de América

24 July 2014 Pre-season	Independiente	1 – 1	Temperley	Avellaneda, Buenos Aires
	Diego Rodriguez  53' (p)	Report	Dinenno  50'	Stadium: Estadio Libertadores de América Referee: Pablo Motto

24 July 2014 Pre-season	Independiente	2 – 1	Temperley	Avellaneda, Buenos Aires
	P.Vidal  46' Eloy Rodriguez  50'	Report	Ariel Rojas  60'	Stadium: Estadio Libertadores de América Referee: Pablo Motto

Competitions

Primera División

  Win   Draw   Loss   Postponed

10 August 2014 Round 1	Independiente	3 – 0	Atlético de Rafaela	Avellaneda
15:15	Mancuello  44' Francisco Pizzini  53' Lucero  74'	Report	Rodrigo Depetris  80'	Stadium: Libertadores de América Referee: Saúl Laverni

16 August 2014 Round 2	Estudiantes (LP)	1 – 0	Independiente	La Plata
20:30	Desábato 33' Goñi  38'	Report	Pérez  22' Jorge Figal  51' Lucas Villalba  83' Mancuello  90'	Stadium: Ciudad de La Plata Referee: Patricio Loustau

23 August 2014 Round 3	Independiente	0 – 4	Vélez Sarsfield	Avellaneda
20:30		Report	Cubero  43' Lucas Pratto  47',  72' Leonardo Rolón  80' Romero  84'	Stadium: Libertadores de América Referee: Mauro Vigliano

27 August 2014 Round 4	Olimpo	1 – 2	Independiente	Bahía Blanca
19:15	Leonardo Gil  21' Blanco  50' (p),  56',	Report	Víctor Cuesta  11' Diego Rodríguez  49' Méndez  55' Penco  88' Mancuello  92'	Stadium: Roberto Natalio Carminatti Referee: Pablo Lunati

31 August 2014 Round 5	Independiente	2 – 1	Racing Club	Avellaneda
15:15	Penco  24',  25' Mancuello  27' Tula  56' Franco Bellocq  74'	Report	Milito  13',  14' Yonathan Cabral  84'	Stadium: Libertadores de América Referee: Fernando Rapallini

6 September 2014 Round 6	Banfield	0 – 1	Independiente	Banfield
20:30	Prichoda  33' Jonathan Requena  86'	Report	Rodrigo Gómez  32' Víctor Cuesta  46' Mancuello  59' Néstor Breitenbruch  70' Lucas Villalba  73'	Stadium: Florencio Solá Referee: Jorge Baliño

13 September 2014 Round 7	Independiente	5 – 3	Quilmes	Avellaneda
20:30	Diego Rodríguez  26' (p),  51' (p) Franco Bellocq  39' Riaño  60',  91' Tula  68' Mancuello  93'	Report	Sarmiento  10' Romero  31' Klusener  70' (p) Joel Carli  75' Jonathan Zacaría  85'	Stadium: Libertadores de América Referee: Fernando Echenique

21 September 2014 Round 8	River Plate	4 – 1	Independiente	Buenos Aires
21:30	Pisculichi  3' Vangioni  7' Sánchez  11' Kranevitter  19' Rojas  37' Gutiérrez  66' Mora  77'	Report	Víctor Cuesta  4' Franco Bellocq  33' Mancuello  57' Méndez  67'	Stadium: Monumental Antonio Vespucio Liberti Referee: Pablo Lunati

27 September 2014 Round 9	Independiente	2 – 0	Rosario Central	Avellaneda
15:30	Jorge Figal Mancuello  50' Francisco Pizzini  57' Méndez  86'	Report	Rafael Delgado  33' Musto  55' Niell  73' Lucas Acevedo  81'	Stadium: Libertadores de América Referee: Patricio Loustau

6 October 2014 Round 10	Godoy Cruz	2 – 2	Independiente	Mendoza
20:30	Fernando Zuqui  7' Ramírez  36' Aquino  48' Daniel González  58'	Report	Mancuello  18' Franco Bellocq  48' Néstor Breitenbruch  53' Alexis Zárate  83',  83' Riaño  84' Víctor Cuesta  85'	Stadium: Malvinas Argentinas Referee: Jorge Baliño

12 October 2014 Round 11	Independiente	1 – 1	Defensa y Justicia	Avellaneda
16:00	Franco Bellocq  79' Penco  91'	Report	Mariano Barbieri  56' Camacho  73' Damián Martínez  85' Ruis  88'	Stadium: Libertadores de América Referee: Diego Ceballos

18 October 2014 Round 12	San Lorenzo	1 – 2	Independiente	Buenos Aires
16:00	Yepes  30' Torrico  70' Buffarini  71' Villalba  81' Juan Mercier  83'	Report	Montenegro  32' Méndez  42' Diego Rodríguez  66' (p) Víctor Cuesta  80'	Stadium: Pedro Bidegain Referee: Darío Herrera

25 October 2014 Round 13	Independiente	3 – 1	Tigre	Avellaneda
15:00	Lucero  1' (45+2) Mancuello  56' Franco Bellocq  78'	Report	Pablo Vitti  37'	Stadium: Libertadores de América Referee: Diego Abal

9 November 2014 Round 15	Independiente	0 – 1	Gimnasia y Esgrima (LP)	Avellaneda
	Méndez  68'	Report	Licht  59'	Stadium: Libertadores de América Referee: Patricio Loustau

13 November 2014 Round 14	Arsenal	1 – 1	Independiente	Sarandí
19:00	Alemán  35'	Report	Penco  72'	Stadium: Julio H. Grondona Referee: Mauro Vigliano

17 November 2014 Round 16	Independiente	4 – 1	Lanús	Avellaneda
20:30	Penco  27' Méndez  33' Montenegro  35' Alexis Zárate  71' Lucero  89' Víctor Cuesta  90+2'	Report	Romero  2' Facundo Monteseirín Velázquez	Stadium: Libertadores de América Referee: Germán Delfino

23 November 2014 Round 17	Boca Juniors	v	Independiente	Buenos Aires
		Report		Stadium: Alberto J. Armando

30 December 2014 Round 18	Independiente	v	Newell's Old Boys	Avellaneda
		Report		Stadium: Libertadores de América

7 December 2014 Round 19	Belgrano	v	Independiente	Córdoba
		Report		Stadium: Julio César Villagra

Season review

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
2	River Plate	19	11	6	2	34	13	+21	39	2015 Copa Libertadores second stage and 2015 Copa Sudamericana Round of 16[lower-alpha 1]
3	Lanús	19	10	5	4	28	23	+5	35	2015 Copa Sudamericana second stage
4	Independiente	19	10	3	6	31	29	+2	33
5	Boca Juniors	19	9	4	6	25	23	+2	31	2015 Copa Libertadores second stage
6	Estudiantes (LP)	19	9	4	6	23	23	0	31	2015 Copa Libertadores first stage[lower-alpha 2]

Source: Programación de Primera División Torneo Final 2013/2014
Notes:

1. Qualified as 2014 Torneo Final champion and 2014 Copa Sudamericana champion
2. Qualified as 2014 Copa Sudamericana best Argentine team not yet qualified.

Results summary

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
16	9	3	4	29	22	+7	30	6	1	2	20	12	+8	3	2	2	9	10	−1

Last updated: 18 November 2014.
Source:

Results by round

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19
Ground	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A
Result	W	L	L	W	W	W	W	L	W	D	D	W	W	D	L	W
Position	1	7	15	11	6	4	3	4	2	3	3	3	4	4	4	3

Source:
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Copa Argentina

9 April 2014 Final Round II	Independiente	4 – 2 [1]	Deportivo Santamarina	San Luis
20:00 UTC−03:00	Insúa  26' (p),  63' Fabián Monserrat  35',  40' Menéndez  65' (p) Néstor Breitenbruch  80' Guillermo Pereira  87'	Report	Ignacio Celaya  25',  41' Jorge Peirone  31' Leonardo Gogna  69' Maximiliano Timpanaro  71'	Stadium: Estadio Provincial Juan Gilberto Funes Referee: Carlos Maglio

28 July 2014 Round of 32	Independiente	2 – 0	Belgrano	Buenos Aires
21:15 UTC−03:00	Néstor Breitenbruch  18' Francisco Pizzini  25',  48'	Report	Pittinari  2' Turús  66' Nicolás Ferreyra  75'	Stadium: Florencio Sola Referee: Silvio Trucco

1 October 2014 Round of 16	Independiente	0 – 2	Estudiantes de La Plata	Sánchez de Loria, San Juan
20:30 UTC−03:00	Franco Bellocq  52' Mancuello  83'	Report	Jonatan Shunke  50' Ezequiel Cerutti  75' Vera  84'	Stadium: San Juan de Bicentenario Referee: Diego Abal

Squad statistics

Updated on 19 October 2014

			Primera División					Copa Argentina					Total
Nation	No.	Name		GS	Min.		Assist		GS	Min.		Assist		GS	Min.		Assist
Goalkeepers
	1	Diego Rodríguez	12	12	1,080	2	0	2	2	180	0	0	14	14	1,260	2	0
	12	Facundo Daffonchio	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	22	Germán Montoya	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	30	Alan Depotte	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Defenders
	2	Cristian Tula	9	8	767	0	0	1	1	90	0	0	10	9	857	0	0
	3	Lucas Villalba	10	10	896	0	0	2	2	180	0	0	12	12	1,076	0	0
	4	Néstor Breitenbruch	9	9	716	0	0	2	2	135	0	0	11	11	851	0	0
	6	Sergio Ojeda	4	2	189	0	0	1	0	45	0	0	5	2	234	0	0
	13	Rodrigo Moreira	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	90	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	15	Jorge Figal	7	6	565	0	0	2	2	180	0	0	9	8	745	0	0
	25	Alexis Zárate	5	3	292	1	0	1	1	90	0	0	6	4	382	1	0
	27	Víctor Cuesta	11	11	990	0	0	1	1	90	0	0	12	12	1,080	0	0
	28	Gabriel Vallés	1	1	45	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	45	0	0
	31	Rafael Barrios	1	0	33	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	33	0	0
	34	Sergio Escudero	2	2	114	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	114	0	0
Midfielders
	5	Franco Bellocq	9	8	710	0	0	2	2	180	0	0	11	10	890	0	0
	8	Jesús Méndez	7	5	476	1	1	1	0	32	0	0	8	5	508	1	1
	10	Federico Insúa	1	0	11	0	1	1	0	22	0	0	2	0	33	0	1
	11	Federico Mancuello	12	12	1,055	8	3	2	2	165	0	0	14	14	1,220	8	3
	14	Fabián Monserrat	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	16	Jorge Iván Pérez	1	1	35	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	35	0	0
	20	Christian Ortiz	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	23	Daniel Montenegro	11	11	796	1	4	1	1	69	0	0	12	12	868	1	4
	24	Marcelo Vidal	4	0	102	0	0	1	0	15	0	0	5	0	117	0	0
	26	Rodrigo Gómez	5	5	345	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	5	345	0	0
	32	Matías Pisano	10	5	525	0	4	2	2	148	0	1	12	7	673	0	5
	33	Leonel Miranda	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	37	Juan Manuel Trejo	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Forwards
	7	Francisco Pizzini	10	3	530	1	0	2	2	158	2	0	12	5	688	3	0
	9	Sebastián Penco	6	3	258	3	0	2	1	114	0	0	8	4	372	3	0
	17	Patricio Vidal	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	19	Juan Martín Lucero	10	7	659	1	0	1	0	21	0	0	11	7	680	1	0
	21	Claudio Riaño	9	8	643	2	1	1	1	69	0	0	10	9	733	2	1
	29	Martín Benítez	2	0	48	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	48	0	0
	35	Maximiliano Herrera	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	36	Eloy Rodriguez	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Goals

Rank	Player	Position	Primera División	Copa Argentina	Total
1	Federico Mancuello	MF	9	0	9
2	Francisco Pizzini	MF	1	2	3
	Sebastián Penco	FW	3	0	3
	Diego Rodríguez	GK	3	0	3
	Juan Martín Lucero	FW	3	0	3
3	Claudio Riaño	FW	2	0	2
4	Jesús Méndez	MF	1	0	1
	Alexis Zárate	DF	1	0	1
	Daniel Montenegro	MF	1	0	1
Total			24	2	26

Assists

Rank	Player	Position	Primera División	Copa Argentina	Total
1	Matías Pisano	MF	4	1	5
2	Daniel Montenegro	MF	4	0	4
	Federico Mancuello	MF	4	0	4
3	Claudio Riaño	FW	1	0	1
	Jesús Méndez	MF	1	0	1
	Federico Insúa	MF	1	0	1
	Francisco Pizzini	FW	1	0	1

Disciplinary record

No.	Pos.	Name			Notes
5	DF	Franco Bellocq	6	0
27	DF	Víctor Cuesta	5	0
8	MF	Jesús Méndez	4	0
15	DF	Jorge Figal	2	1
3	DF	Lucas Villalba	2	0
2	DF	Cristian Tula	2	0
4	DF	Néstor Breitenbruch	1	1
26	MF	Rodrigo Gómez	1	0
1	GK	Diego Rodríguez	1	0
9	FW	Sebastián Penco	1	0
7	FW	Francisco Pizzini	1	0
21	FW	Claudio Riaño	1	0

Penalties Date Penalty Taker Scored Opponent Competition 13 September 2014 Diego Rodríguez Yes Quilmes Argentine Primera División 13 September 2014 Diego Rodríguez Yes Quilmes Argentine Primera División 18 October 2014 Diego Rodríguez Yes San Lorenzo Argentine Primera División

Overall

	Total	Home	Away	Naturel
Games played	16	8	6	2
Games won	9	5	3	1
Games drawn	2	1	1	0
Games lost	5	2	2	1
Biggest win	3-0 vs Atlético Rafaela	3-0 vs Atlético Rafaela	2-1 vs Olimpo 1-0 vs Banfield	2-0 vs Belgrano
Biggest loss	0-4 vs Vélez Sarsfield	0-4 vs Vélez Sarsfield	1-4 vs River Plate	-
Biggest win (League)	3-0 vs Atlético Rafaela	3-0 vs Atlético Rafaela	2-1 vs Olimpo 2-1 vs San Lorenzo 1-0 vs Banfield
Biggest win (Cup)	2-0 vs Belgrano	-	-	2-0 vs Belgrano
Biggest loss (League)	0-4 vs Vélez Sarsfield	0-4 vs Vélez Sarsfield	1-4 vs River Plate	-
Biggest loss (Cup)	0-2 vs Estudiantes	-	-	0-2 vs Estudiantes
Clean sheets	4	2	1	1
Goals scored	26	16	8	2
Goals conceded	22	11	9	2
Goal difference	4	5	-1	0
Average GF per game	1.63	2	1.33	1
Average GA per game	1.38	1.38	1.5	1
Yellow cards	33	10	20	3
Red cards	2	1	1	0
Most appearances	Diego Rodríguez Federico Mancuello (16)	–
Most minutes played	Diego Rodríguez (1,440)	–
Most goals	Federico Mancuello (9)	–
Winning rate	56.25%	62.5%	50%	50%

Source: Competitive matches

References

1. this game is from the previous season but in same cup compation

External links

• Club Atlético Independiente official web site (in Spanish)