Fulham have allowed six players to leave the club, including veteran central defender Alain Goma and Argentinian striker Facundo Sava.

Goma is the most high-profile name on the released list, having been with the Cottagers since March 2001, when he joined in a £4million deal from Newcastle United.

The 33-year-old made just over 150 first-team appearances for Fulham, but leaves the club after negotiations over a new contract broke down.

Striker Sava has not featured for Fulham for more than two years, having joined the club for £2million from Gimnasia de Jujuy in the summer of 2002. 

He scored six goals 26 league games for the Cottagers and more recently has been with Celta Vigo and Deportivo Lorca in Spain.

The other four players released by Fulham are fringe players Robert Watkins, Neale McDermott, Adam Green and Richard De Villiers.

Lanus drew 0-0 Saturday with Velez Sarsfield. In other games Saturday, Gimnasia La Plata beat Newell's 3-2 to move into third place, p***ing River Plate, which fell to fourth with a 2-0 loss to Racing.

Elsewhere Sunday, it was: Banfield 3, Argentinos Juniors 1; Arsenal 1, Instituto 1; Tiro Federal 1, Quilmes 1; Olimpo 1, Gimnasia Jujuy 0.

Later Sunday, Estudiantes hosted Rosario Central and Colon visited San Lorenzo.

With striker Sergio Aguero suspended, Independiente set up two defensive lines and employed only one attacker. However, it was able to create and several runs down the flanks, forcing Argentine national team keeper Roberto Abbondancieri into acrobatic saves on shots by Esteban Bujan and Gaston Machin.

Rodrigo Palacio and Martin Palermo scored one goal apiece and traded ***ists for Boca. Palacio put the Buenos Aires side ahead in the 38th with a shot from outside the penalty area after a long p*** from Palermo, who added the insurance in the 47th with a header off a cross by Palacio.

In the oldest derby in Argentine soccer, Racing beat crosstown rival River Plate, which played with a mostly reserve team to rest its regulars for the first leg of Copa Libertadores quarter-finals against Paraguay's Libertad on Thursday.

Maximiliano Moralez headed in a cross from Juan Manuel Torres in the 38th, and Claudio Fileppi made it 2-0 in injury time.

River midfielder Lucas Pusineri was red-carded in the 88th.

River Plate and Boca Juniors won to stay neck and neck at the top of the Argentine championship in a weekend when Independiente teenager Sergio Aguero produced another outstanding display.
As River beat Instituto 3-1 at home and Boca won 2-1 at Colon's so-called Elephants' Graveyard, Aguero pushed his claim for a place in Argentina's World Cup squad by scoring twice in five minutes to give his side a 2-0 win at Velez Sarsfield.
Aguero, who had already come close in the first half, broke the deadlock in the 81st minute when he left two defenders in his wake and placed the ball beyond Gaston Sessa.
Five minutes later, he buried Velez by firing home from the edge of the penalty area.
Velez finished with 10 men after Fabian Cubero was sent off for a second bookable offence in the 65th minute.
Aguero, the competition's second-top scorer with eight goals, burst onto the scene in the second half of last year and his performances have brightened up an otherwise mundane campaign by the Red Devils.
The Avellaneda-based team are 11th in the Clausura championship with 19 points from 13 games.
River and Boca both have 28 points from 14 games at the top after winning, with River enjoying the edge on goal difference.
River, beaten 4-1 by Lanus last week, went ahead in the 14th minute with a spectacular volley from midfielder Victor Zapata.
Instituto, 19th in the 20-team table with eight points, shocked the hosts by equalising five minutes before half-time when Gabriel Lobos scored from close range following a corner.
Ernesto Farias, the championship's leading scorer, struck twice in the second half to take his tally to 10 goals and hand Daniel Passarella's team the points.
Boca were gifted a ninth-minute lead when Colon defender Horacio Ameli turned Rodrigo Palacio's cross into his own net.
Palacio then put them further ahead in the 25th minute as he fired home from Martin Palermo's pass.
Colon, who have caused numerous upsets at home in the past, pulled one back through Franco Cangele early in the second half.
But Boca goalkeeper Roberto Abbondanzieri, whose poor recent form has jeopardised his place as Argentina's first-choice goalkeeper, kept the visitors in front with several excellent saves.
Third-placed Lanus, who are one point behind, kept up the chase with a 2-1 win over Newell's Old Boys and Gimnasia-Jujuy's 4-0 win away to Estudiantes kept them a further point behind in fourth.

Bianco had been in charge of the unfashionable club since last August, when he took over from 1986 World Cup winner Jorge Burruchaga.

Gimnasia-Jujuy continued their excellent campaign with a 3-1 win over Argentinos Juniors, Israel Damonte, Franco Sosa, from a penalty, and Matias Oyola scoring the goals.

At the other end of the table, Racing Club stayed bottom when they were beaten 1-0 at Instituto. Racing have only three points from eleven games and have yet to win a game.

Rosario Central picked up their first win under new coach Leonardo Astrada when they beat Tiro Federal 3-0. Goals from defenders Gabriel Loeschbor and German Rivarola put Central 2-0 up and striker Pablo Vitti added the third.