Beltrán's Goal Streak Ends at River Plate

07/02/2026 20:26hs.

Due to the tear in the right calf of Franco Armanithe departure of Jeremías Ledesma to Rosario Central and the recovery still in progress from the broken wrist of Ezequiel Centurion, The doors were opened for Santiago Beltrán to be River’s goalkeeper at the start of the Apertura Tournament. And the boy, the number 52 that Marcelo Gallardo makes his debut as coach of the Millonario, responded in spades. He had three undefeated goals, a streak that was cut at the start of the match against Tigre.

The minutes of goal in zero that Beltrán had

Just five minutes into the game and Tiago Serrago, a midfielder on loan from the Núñez club in Victoria, He opened the scoring on the night of the Monumental. The former Aldosivi’s shot deflected off Matias Viña, and this was key to making Beltrán’s reaction inert, and putting an end to a good streak without scoring goals. To make matters worse, ten minutes later he received the second after a deep run by David Romero.

Officially, it reached 275 minutes without conceding goals. But, if you count the pair of preseason friendlies, against Peñarol and Millonarios (where he saved a penalty in the series against Carbonero) He had 455 minutes with his undefeated goal. A real brand in the CARP world, even more so, taking into account that in the days between matches there was always talk that he would return to the substitute bench in the event of Franco Armani returning, something that is still a long time coming.

Santiago Beltran. (Photo: Marcelo Carroll)

With Beltrán, the 52 youth players who debuted in River with Gallardo

With Beltrán’s first minutes in Primera, the first youth debut of 2026 also occurred: he was the first kid to debut in the top category in this new year. A season that starts with a premiere, after what was a 2025 in which Gallardo had his season with the highest number of youth debuts: there were nine, surpassing the eight of 2015 (Leandro Vega, Franco López, Pablo Carreras, Abel Casquete, Claudio Salto, Lautaro Arellano, Exequiel Palacios and Luis Olivera) and 2017 (Maxi Velazco, Zacarías Morán Correa, Alan Picazzo, Santiago Vera, Augusto Aguirre, Kevin Sibille, Nahuel Gallardo and Cristian Ferreira).

2014: 1) Lucas Boyé 2) Emanuel Mammana 3) Guido Rodríguez.

2015: 4) Leandro Vega, 5) Franco López, 6) Pablo Carreras, 7) Abel Casquete, 8) Claudio Salto, 9) Lautaro Arellano, 10) Exequiel Palacios, 11) Luis Olivera.

2016: 12) Augusto Batalla, 13) Gonzalo Montiel, 14) Tomás Andrade, 15) Lucas Martínez Quarta, 16) Matías Moya.

2017: 17) Maximiliano Velazco, 18) Zacarías Morán Correa, 19) Alan Marcel Picazzo, 20) Santiago Vera, 21) Augusto Aguirre, 22) Kevin Sibille, 23) Nahuel Gallardo, 24) Cristian Ferreira.

2018: 25) Santiago Sosa, 26) Julián Álvarez, 27) David Martínez, 28) Lucas Beltrán.

2019: 29) Federico Girotti, 30) Hernán López, 31) Benjamin Rollheiser, 32) Elías Lopez.

2020: 33) Franco Paredes, 34) Enzo Fernández, 35) Santiago Simón, 36) Tomás Castro Ponce.

2021: 37) Alan Leonardo Díaz, 38) Tomás Galván, 39) Daniel Lucero, 40) Tomás Lecanda, 41) Felipe Peña Biafore, 42) Felipe Salomoni.

2022: no players debuted.

2024: no players debuted.

2025: 43) Giorgio Costantini, 44) Ulises Giménez, 45) Juan Cruz Meza, 46) Bautista Dadín, 47) Agustín de la Cuesta, 48) Thiago Acosta, 49) Cristian Jaime, 50) Agustín Obregón and 51) Joaquín Freitas.

2026: 52) Santiago Beltrán