Four goals in the same number of games, two narrow victories and two draws, described the week of games in the first leg of the quarterfinals of Libertadores Cupthat left the champion Fluminense with a smile, at Flamengo with a concerned grimace penarol with great enthusiasm.
For the rest, River Plate and Sao Paulo They return home from their excursions with a sense that as locals they will make the change necessary to move forward, though Colo Colo and Botafogo They understand that the conditions remain the same for everyone.
0-1. Tite, the favorite villain
Flamengo fans, the club followed by more than 50 million Brazilians, turned their anger against coach Adenor Leonardo Bacchi ‘Tite’, while on the other side of the Maracaná stadium Peñarol players celebrated and their fans the 0-0 victory.
The game was decided early, at 13 minutes, with a goal from striker Javier Cabrera that crowned the quick defeat of the Mirasol team.
Fla managed to equalize in the first half with attacks, but Carbonero dug in and stopped the rain.
It was easier in the second, because the need of the red and black team combined the pressure of the fans and the pressure of the forwards to break the resistance of goalkeeper Washington Aguerre.
The decisive event will take place next Thursday at the Campeón del Siglo stadium.
0-0. Everything is good, except the scoring
The Venezuelan Jefferson Savarino and the Brazilian Luiz Henrique were in charge of producing fine play by Botafogo, the leader of the ‘Brasileirao’, but they forgot to put the final note in the match at the Nilton Santos stadium in Rio.
Sao Paulo did not do much for the show in Rio de Janeiro and, on the contrary, seemed very comfortable in the role of fighting in the background and making the minutes pass thanks to the sacrificial work of its defenders Sabino and the Ecuadorian Robert Arboleda.
Without the goals, although Botafogo generated a lot of play with that stamp, Sao Paulo considered itself well served and on Wednesday, with its fans in the Morumbí stand, will hope to cause a surprise in the quarterfinals of Libertadores.
1-0. The champion is still there
Good news for Fluminense, the champion of the 2023 Copa Libertadores Lima’s goal at the Maracaná stadium leaves the lead light for the second leg to be held next Wednesday at the Arena MRV in Belo Horizonte, the home of Atlético Mineiro.
Lima was fishing in calm waters, as the match was not filled with emotion in front of the goals and was decided only three minutes from the end of regulation time, when the match seemed to be decided.
The other good news left out of Wednesday’s match in Flu was the reappearance of the top scorer of the last edition of the Copa Libertadores, Argentine forward Germán Cano, who was sent to the dry dock for two months due to injury on his right foot.
The winner of this series will face the winner of the match between River Plate and Colo Colo in the semifinals, which tied 1-1 in the first leg on Tuesday in Santiago, Chile.
1-1. nothing has been decided
It was a tough game in Santiago on Tuesday night.
Germán Pezella put the red band ahead before the curtain fell on the first half, but Carlos Palacios left everything as it was at the start with half an hour left in regulation time.
The disappointment of the draw at home was not enough and the catharsis generated by saving the furniture from the shipwreck made the rivals angry, especially River’s Chilean defender Paulo Díaz and the Uruguayan Colo Colo center-back Maximiliano ‘Peluca’ Falcón.
A red card at the end of 90 minutes will rule them out of next week’s decisive second leg.
Quarterfinals first legs:
19.09
Flamengo (BRA) 0-1 Peñarol (URU)
18.09
Fluminense (BRA) 1-0 Atlético Mineiro (ARG)
Botafogo (BRA) 0-0 Sao Paulo (BRA)
17.09
Colo Colo (CHI) 1-1 River Plate (ARG)
Source: La Verdad
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