Athletico Paranaense defeated Atlético Mineiro which increased their crisis.
The Curitiba team worked the game and kept the three points to partially lead their zone.
This Tuesday, March 18, Athletico Paranaense received Atlético Mineir o at the Arena Da Baixada stadium , in commitment corresponding to the second date of Group G of the Copa Libertadores . At the end of 90 minutes, the score benefited the home owners by 2-1.
And things started in a great way for the current runners-up in the competition, since the footballer who dreams of reaching Barcelona, Vitor Roque, came up with a good play in which he began to pile up rivals and through a crossed shot , scored the goal that broke zero.
Paulo Turra's men were broad dominators throughout the initial 45 , my sample of this occurred just before the end of the first act, there was a hand in the area by the visitors, and the penalty kick was the Uruguayan striker , David Terans, who translated his shot into a goal.
Already for the complement, the Frenchman woke up from the football lethargy of the first half, not even through a good score achieved by Paulinho, the visitors discounted , however, from then on they appealed to whatever it took to reach equality , which finally did not occur.
Those led by the Argentine technical director, Eduardo Coudet, finished the game with one less man due to the expulsion of Mariano , who was sent off the field after 87 minutes. The complicated thing in this case is that the international crisis is increasing for the Belo Horizonte team, which has not scored any points so far in the South American tournament.
For its part, Furacao partially reached the top of its zone with 4 points , but we must wait for what happens in the matchup between Libertad and Alianza Lima, since if the Paraguayans win the victory they will add a perfect score and they would close the week leading.
Olimpia defeated Patronato and settled in its zone of the Libertadores.
Fernando Cardozo, in the first half, scored the only goal of the process in which Olimpia beat Patronato.
At the Defensores del Chaco Stadium, Olimpia prevailed by the slightest difference against Patronato in the framework of the second date of the group stage of the Copa Libertadores . When the first part died, Cardozo provided the only shout of the game.
After the tie in his visit against Melgar on the first day, the striped player was looking to settle in the area by adding three for the first time in the edition. Walter Otta 's men had already taken the nerves out of their absolute debut in the tournament in the defeat against Atlético Nacional and traveled to Paraguay with the desire to get their first points.
Those led by Diego Aguirre were the dominant players in the first half of the game, it was only after 44 minutes that they were able to capitalize on it. Fernando Cardozo took advantage of a poor rejection in the area, eluded the defender who was on the line and sent it to the back of the net without opposition.
The complement had the roles reversed, with the Pattern pushing his rival towards his own goal. However, and despite a good flow of approximations, the people from Entre Ríos could not balance the process again and ended up leaving empty-handed.
With this result, Olimpia momentarily climbed to the top of Group H with 4 units, while Patronato is at the bottom without having added yet. This Thursday, Atlético Nacional will receive Melgar with the chance to recover the lead alone.
Internacional suffered, fought, and agonizingly beat Metropolitans.
The Venezuelan team was excited about a historic result, but no matter how much they endured, they couldn't against Colorado.
At the Beira Río stadium, in Porto Alegre, Internacional received Metropolitanos, within the framework of the second day of Group B, of the Copa Libertadores . In the match, the scoreboard registered a short 1-0, in which the Brazilians did everything, and in the end they won with a solitary goal.
And it is that the Caracas team throughout the game had an outstanding presentation, because they knew how to hold zero, but they were frustrated their first time in adding in the important tournament. Unfortunately for them, their second outing meant defeat , just as it happened on the first day.
During the match, those led by Mano Menezes were lords and masters in the match , they had the best scoring chances, which without a doubt, were more than ten, and only agonizingly at the end of the match did they break the zero.
At least in what was the first part, there were four approaches by the Colorado team, and mainly, the protagonist of each of these plays was the extreme left, Wanderson, who was not effective enough to overcome the goal defended by Giancarlo Schiavone .
Already for the second half, the home owners had a goal annulled, precisely because moments before the score, Wanderson stepped on the Venezuelan goalkeeper's arm, and for this reason the first celebration was not given for the large number of fans present. on the sports stage.
The truth is that, at minute 90+1, the footballer entered from the bench, Alemao, practically in front of the goal, defined with some difficulty, and the ball slowly entered the goal of the Venezuelan team, which could not be done with his first point in the tournament.
Now, in the zone, Internacional partially leads , to which he adds 4 points after two outings , it should be remembered that in his first match the same or against Independiente Medellín. Metropolitanos, for their part, remain last in the area since they have not managed to add in the championship.
With a header from Nino in the first half, Fluminense put together another victory at the start of the Copa Libertadores.
At the Maracaná Stadium, Fluminense won by the minimum against The Strongest in the framework of the second day of the group stage of the Copa Libertadores . The only goal of the game was scored by Nino , when the first half was ending.
The partial leaders of the area faced each other on this second day. The Brazilian team had just defeated Sporting Cristal as a visitor and was looking to continue on the same path, while the Bolivians had beaten River Plate in La Paz and wanted another hit.
This Tuesday, Fluminense easily dominated the first half, monopolizing the approaches to the rival goal, with 80% of possession in their favor. It was only at 40 when they managed to break the zero, through a dove in the heart of Nino 's area .
In the second half, the Bolivian cast had their first chances, with two clear shots, but failed to balance the game. The Flu, on the other hand, continued to attack frequently, reaching close to 30 attempts at the rival goal.
In this way, Fluminense achieved its second victory in the Copa Libertadores and leads Group D with 6 units, while The Strongest escorts it with 3. River and Sporting Cristal will complete this Wednesday in Buenos Aires the date in the area seeking both their first points.
With mystical cup, Boca turned it around and beat Pereira in the Copa Libertadores.
When the weather was dense and he lost, his mystical cup appeared . Boca Juniors tried as best they could , much better in the second half, was at a disadvantage and within the hour achieved an agonizing victory, to the relief of their fans. Xeneize , which clings to its greatest hope, the CONMEBOL Libertadores , defeated Deportivo Pereira from Colombia 2-1, on the second date of Group F at La Bombonera, in the debut of Jorge Almirón as coach of the team in the Cup .
Without associated game, he did not win the midfield and not even the constant encouragement of his people seemed to push him. The people of Boca were hit and felt the urge to be happy to leave behind old and recent wounds . Boca pursued the desire to find his identity and needed to recover the mystical cup.
Sebastián Villa , who began the day declaring in the trial against him for gender violence , was put as starter by Almirón. He sought to open the rival defense, being the alternative most required by his teammates, but the first shot on goal of the match was made by another Colombian, in this case a rival, like captain Jhonny Vásquez, with a deflected frontal shot after two minutes of play .
The locals found themselves with a rival who started out serene, without despairing or flinching at the magnitude of the visitor's debut in the Libertadores, in a venue as historic and special as La Bombonera. And at 16, Vásquez tried again, although left-footed, between many legs, inside the big area, after another well-developed advance by the visiting team. Two minutes later, the Pereira captain had to leave due to an injury .
Xeneize bet on the "change of air" with the arrival of Jorge Almirón . As if Ibarra's departure was going to take with it the lack of playing volume and the tactical confusion, Boca gave way to another of his idols, as he had done with Sebastián Battaglia , and appointed Mariano Herrón as interim coach, to the waiting for the definition of a new commander.
With Herrón, Boca made its debut in the Libertadores: they played a messy game in Venezuela, had to endure at a disadvantage against Monagas and settled for a draw . Then came the welcome to Almirón and, since he took office, the disappointments continue: San Lorenzo beat him in the classic at the Nuevo Gasómetro and Estudiantes beat him at La Bombonera , both for the League Tournament .
To all this, the clearest of Boca in the first half against Pereira was given by Darío Benedetto , when he received a long pass, he entered the area and kicked on goal, but Geisson Perea arrived at the end and deflected it into a corner. They spent 35 minutes of action to have that possibility. Very little for the claims of a great and their fans, already very upset.
And Pereira had just generated another chance, when Johan Bocanegra finished off weakly inside the area and Sergio Romero controlled without problems . Shortly, Angelo Rodríguez launched himself into the area when he felt a slight contact from Nicolás Valentini and the visit claimed a penalty, but the referee did not see an infringement .
At 43 minutes, all of Deportivo Pereira shouted a goal. Chiquito Romero had another save and it was Juan Quintero who scored the header but judge Andrés Matonte reviewed the action in the VAR and annulled it , to the relief of the local fans, for an offense committed by the defender, who grabbed Guillermo Pol Fernández , who marked him on that play.
At the start of the second stage, Villa tried a shot from the outside entering from the left, after a combination with Valentín Barco , but the shot went to the far post. Right away, the Colombian had a free kick but he didn't hit it either . And his team continued to try almost always on the left, with that Barco-Villa tandem , but without looking for a surprise with attempts on the other flank.
He kept looking for a way to reach the opponent's goal with danger, but without very clear ideas, more by individual attacks. He suffered the biggest blow at minute 76 , when Jimer Fory , left-footed and at the far post, now scored for Pereira , after a good counterattack. Nothing to do for Romero against a rival who did not take care of himself, who resisted Boca's search, but disorderly.
When the weather was very tense, Luis Advíncula nailed a left-footed shot to place, high, at the far post, to achieve equality at 88 . The cry of relief came from the xeneize sympathizers, tired of suffering in a losing streak. He started to have one more player, due to the expulsion of Maicol Medina for a foul on Villa , and at the end it was Barco, the great figure of the night , who opened it at the back, in an attack, so that Alan Varela entered to head it to the chosen place, without disheveled, already nine minutes into extra time , just one minute from the end, with the noose around his neck.
Far from being a formality, as many thought in the previous one, Boca did not show his credentials until at the end he had some hints of the football he was looking for, lucidity to score two goals and vent to his thousands of supporters in La Bombonera . It was the dream closure , in a night that came with a different flavor.
Independiente del Valle dominated the game and recovered with a win against Liverpool.
Independiente del Valle adds the first victory in the CONMEBOL Libertadores . They defeated Liverpool of Uruguay 2-0 for the second date of group E, on the night of this Tuesday, April 18, at the Banco de Guayaquil stadium.
The victory was important, but the score did not reflect the dominance that the Valle team had in the match . In the first half alone, he had 12 shots on goal and scored 1 goal. In total he made 24 shots at the rival goal.
The goalkeeper Sebastián Britos became the figure of the match because he prevented Michael Hoyos, Lautaro Díaz and Junior Sornoza himself from scoring more goals.
Sornoza opened the scoring at minute 26, after a header . The small IDV striker resorted to this definition, very little known about him. Alan Minda, who had entered a couple of minutes earlier, made it 2-0 in the 66th minute , after winning a one-on-one against goalkeeper Britos.
In the 75th minute, the Bolivian Marcelo Moreno Martins entered , who had two goal positions, but could not hit it. Another player who also finished off on goal was Patrik Mercado , who put the Uruguayan defense in trouble.
In the second half, the dominance was total from IDV . Goalkeeper Moisés Ramírez touched the ball once in the last 25 minutes.
For Liverpool it is the second defeat, after the 3-0 they suffered at home against Corinthians.
On the third date, which will be held on May 2, Independiente del Valle will visit Corinthians in Sao Paulo while Liverpool will host Argentinos Juniors.
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