A year after disappearing Libertadores Cup together palm trees for 2-1, flamingos returns to the battle in pursuit of its third title in the history of the tournament, which in 2022 celebrates 63 editions, and coincides with the fifth final between the Brazilian teams.
It is a decision dyed red and black to be played in 52 days, on October 29, at the stadium Monumental Isidro Romero carbon from the Ecuadorian city of Guayaquil.
Red and black finish because they are the distinguishing colors flamingos, that this Thursday removed the Velez Sarsfield Argentinian, yes Athletico Paranaensewhich on Wednesday left the gutter palm trees, champion of 2021, 2020 and 1999.
The ‘Furacao’ (Hurricane) of the city of Curitiba he also knows what to play, and lose to Libertadores Cup, a truly Brazilian final.
In 2005 he was excited to match the 1-1 in Curitiba together São Paulowhose representative colors were white, red and black, but the title dream vanished when they went down 4-0 at the stadium Morumbi.
That year was the first decider between Brazilian teams in the Libertadores, which began to be played in 1960.
A year later, Brazilian clubs re-imposed their hegemony on the ten countries of Conmebol.
The champion São Paulo In 2006 a fourth title was stroked, but Internacional was undefeated, the Colorado team from Porto Alegre winning 1-2 in Morumbiand surrendered 2-2 at the stadium in Beira-Rio.
For 2019, in conjunction with the celebration of the sixtieth edition, the Copa Libertadores began to be played in single matches.
In 2020 the Brazilians Saints and Palmeiras, iconic clubs from São Paulo, reached the final. The white team made famous by Pelé fell 1-0 to the Verdiblanca formation.
And on November 27, 2021, exactly 9 months and 9 days ago, the red and black of flamingos They fell 2-1 against the Verdiblancos of palm trees at the stadium Centenary of Montevideo.
In the important appointment of October 29 at Guayaquil Flamengo He arrived boosted and with another title in his pocket thanks to the superlative level of the tournament’s top scorer Pedro Guilherme Abreu two saintswho now consolidated his position by scoring the provisional equalizer in a 2-1 win at Rio de Janeiro in Velez.
This is the twelfth goal of Peter ‘the Great’, an impressive return, if you consider that his main pursuers have scored seven and have already been eliminated: the Argentine from Velez Lucas Janson and the Brazilians from Palmeiras Rony and Rafael Navarro.
But the surprising thing Athletico Paranaense seems comfortable when facing rivals with declared favoritism.
Not to be outdone, in the semifinals they eliminated the champion of the last two editions of Liberators. The 1-0 victory over palm trees in Curitiba doesn’t seem to be enough for Luiz Philip Scolari, that in the end they came out of the classification after equalizing 2-2.
The final dyed red and black of the 63rd edition of the Copa Libertadores will achieve a third title in flamingos or the first in Athético Paranaense. And leave one of the two clubs with the taint of losing two Brazilian finals of the tournament.
Results of the second leg of the semifinals:
07.09 FLAMENGO (BRA) 2-1 Vélez Sarsfield (ARG) First Leg: 0-4
06.09 Palmeiras (BRA) 2-2 ATHLÉTICO PARANAENSE (BRA) First Leg: 1-0
Copa Libertadores scorers classification:
With 12: Pedro (Flamengo).
Including 7: Lucas Janson (Vélez Sársfield), Rony (Palmeiras), Rafael Navarro (Palmeiras).
May 6: Julián Álvarez (River Plate), Raphael Veiga (Palmeiras) and Sebastián Rodríguez (Emelec).
Including 5: Gabriel Barbosa ‘Gabigol’ (Flamengo), Junior Sornoza (Independiente del Valle) and Hulk (Atletico Mineiro).
Source: La Verdad
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