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Copa Libertadores Boca Juniors vs Racing Club

Copa Libertadores Boca Juniors vs Racing Club 19:30 ET   Those led by Sebastián Beccacece know that with the tie they are among the best four in the tournament, something that the Argentine club has not achieved since 1997. A Racing goal could also complicate the key to the ‘Azul y Oro’ team. As recalled, the ‘Academy’ eliminated Flamengo on penalties in the round of 16. Avellaneda's men have fallen 2-1 against Vélez Sarsfield for the Diego Maradona Cup. Boca Juniors, for its part, relies on the experience and scoring quota of Carlos Tevez to get this complicated game through. Miguel Ángel Russo's team lost their unbeaten home match to Internacional in the round of 16, so they had to define their classification from the twelve steps. The "Xeneizes" beat Independiente 2-1 in the Argentine tournament, so they arrive in good spirits for the match against Racing. LIVE STREAM

Copa Libertadores Nacional vs River Plate

Copa Libertadores Nacional vs River Plate 19:30 ET   Last week, Marcelo Gallardo's team took an important step towards the semifinals with a 2-0 home run at the Independiente stadium in Avellaneda, in a match marked by several disputed failures despite the use of VAR. River Plate, current runner-up of the Copa Libertadores, will be able to go to the next round with a win, a draw, a 1-0 defeat and even by two goals if they manage to score a goal or more in Montevideo. For its part, Nacional hopes to solve the offensive problems it presented recently. The ‘charrúa’ club trusts Gonzalo Bergessio, who has not scored for five games, and in last week’s match, ‘Bolsa’ only hit a shot on the rival goal. Coach Jorge Giordano considered that “you have to be very balanced, try to make a game like we want, and score a goal as soon as possible, but you have to maintain a balance and not get carried away because if you don't have it, it may be something that we pay for very expensive. We hav...

Copa Libertadores Racing Club vs Boca Juniors

Copa Libertadores Racing Club vs Boca Juniors 19:30 ET   Boca Juniors and Racing will star in one of the keys to the quarterfinals of the Copa Libertadores 2020. The xeneize team came to these instances after eliminating Inter, whom they beat 5-4 in the penalty shootout, and after losing 1-0 (partial 0-0) in the 90 minutes, in the match for the second round played last Wednesday at the Bombonera, in Buenos Aires. Racing eliminated the current champion of the Copa Libertadores, Flamengo. The semifinals in the first half of January and the final with a single match is scheduled for January 30 at the Maracaná stadium in Rio de Janeiro. The Cup champion will play the FIFA Club World Cup, scheduled for February 2021 in Qatar, and the 2021 Recopa Sudamericana against the 2020 South American Cup champion. LIVE STREAM

Copa Libertadores Palmeiras vs Libertad

Copa Libertadores Palmeiras vs Libertad 19:30 ET   The ‘Verdao’ will test his defensive strength in his field, where he has not conceded goals under the command of Portuguese coach Abel Ferreira, when he meets the Paraguayans. In the first leg, played in Asunción, they drew 1-1. Since the Portuguese took over from Vanderlei Luxemburg, the São Paulo club, the only undefeated in this edition of the Libertadores, has played six home games between national and international tournaments. He won all, did not receive a goal and scored 17 points. For his part, Libertad has seven games without losing (four draws and three wins) and they arrive in Sao Paulo with the peace of mind of having qualified for the final stages of the Paraguayan championship. Boosted by the experience and the scoring nose of veteran striker Óscar Cardozo, the runner-up clings to the possibility of lifting the title of South American champion for the first time. LIVE STREAM

Copa Libertadores River Plate vs Nacional

Copa Libertadores River Plate vs Nacional 19:30 ET   River, which is also one of the candidates in the local tournament, in which it advanced easily to the championship stage, will not have one of its figures for this series, the midfielder Enzo Pérez, who in the last hours tested positive for a Covid-19 test and you will miss both games. On the visiting side, the tricolor arrives at this meeting rested, since the classic that was to play the weekend against Peñarol was suspended for national mourning, due to the death of former president Tabaré Vázquez. Iván Alonso, Nacional manager and former River player, declared that the red band club “has been the best team of the time for a long time because they work in the best way. Anyway, we are going to make it difficult. We have a group of guys who are fans of the club and feel the shirt. We are not going to make it easy for River ”. LIVE STREAM

Copa Libertadores Boca Juniors vs Internacional

Copa Libertadores Boca Juniors vs Internacional 19:30 ET   Boca took a minimal advantage in his visit to Brazil. A solitary goal by Carlos Tevez gave them the victory. The match was marked by the celebration of Tevez. Who when taking off his shirt showed a tribute to Diego Maradona. He was wearing a Boca shirt from the year 81 that Maradona himself gave him. Despite having only one goal difference in the series, Boca is the favorite. This is because the return is in La Bombonera and the Argentines are strong at home. With the victory in Brazil, Xeneize completed a very good record playing away on Brazilian soil. They are the team that has won the most times there, with 9 wins. Wide difference with Peñarol and Nacional. The two Uruguayan teams have won 5 times there. Whoever takes the series must be measured with Racing. The team where Marcelo Díaz, Eugenio Mena and Gabriel Arias play has just eliminated the American champions. They managed to defeat Flamengo on penalties. LIVE STRE...

Copa Libertadores Grêmio vs Santos

Copa Libertadores Grêmio vs Santos 17:15 ET   Let us remember that Gremio acceded to this instance after defeating Guaraní from Paraguay in an impeccable manner, defeating the Paraguayan team in the two games by 2 goals to 0. In the Brasileirao, the champion of the 2017 edition of the Libertadores beat Vasco 4 to 0 da Gama, a match that marked the debut in Pinares' networks that scored a goal from distance that was highlighted by coach Renato Gaúcho after the match. Santos's team, for its part, eliminated the Quito League in a highly contested series, with the Brazilian victory 2 to 1 in Ecuador and a 1 to 0 defeat at the Estadio Urbano Caldeira, which meant the passage to the quarterfinals of the Santista team for the highest number of goals scored in visiting conditions. Over the weekend, the team drew 2-2 with Palmeiras at the Brasileirao. Let's remember that the first leg is played in Gremio's land while the return match is scheduled for next December 16 in Vila Bel...

Copa Libertadores Libertad vs Palmeiras

Copa Libertadores Libertad vs Palmeiras 19:30 ET At the Brasileirao, Palmeiras has also managed to weather the health emergency and will travel to Paraguay after drawing 2-2 with Santos, a result that helped both teams climb to fourth place after the twenty-fourth matchday. For its part, for Libertad it will be a new challenge in the midst of the search for a more competitive team that has fallen to former midfielder Gustavo Morínigo, successor of Argentine Ramón Díaz, in the midst of a plummet in the group stage. And with Morínigo at the helm, the ‘Gumarelos’ qualified suffering to the round of 16, where they got rid of the Bolivian Jorge Wilstermann thanks to the sparks of the experienced Óscar ‘Tacuara’ Cardozo. The former Benfica striker scored both goals in Cochabamba after entering the second half and with another goal contributed to the victory of the first leg (3-1), which is why he has become a key piece for Morínigo. LIVE STREAM

Copa Libertadores Grêmio vs Guaraní

Copa Libertadores Grêmio vs Guaraní 19:30 ET The ‘Tricolor’ drags the biggest undefeated of the competition participants. Renato Portaluppi's team fell 2-1 against Santos at the Brasileirao on October 11. It was the last time the Porto Alegre team lost. Since then he has played 14 games, with eleven victories. None of the 16 ranked eighths come close to those numbers. Palmeiras and Boca Juniors have not lost in Libertadores, but Verdao fell to Goiás and the Xeneizes to Lanús, both in local leagues. River Plate is the one that comes closest, with six games without losing. For his part, Guaraní lives a different situation than the Gaúchos, since in the last ten outings they added four wins and four losses. On Sunday they beat Sportivo Luqueño 2-1 and temporarily entered the playoffs qualification zone of the Paraguayan tournament. For this game, Gustavo Costas will not be able to count on the midfielder Jorge Morel, sent off in the first leg, and has two doubts. The full back Guiller...

Copa Libertadores Internacional vs Boca Juniors

Copa Libertadores Internacional vs Boca Juniors 19:15 ET The departure of Diego Armando Maradona hit hard in a large percentage of people throughout the world, one of the clubs that most felt the departure of the Argentine star was Boca Juniors, a club of which Diego was a staunch fan, because of this Boca requested the postponement of the match that would initially be played on Wednesday, November 25. The Internacional de Porto Alegre was classified second in Group E of the Copa Libertadores with 8 units, the cast of Inter from Brazil left UC and América de Cali on the way. In the last round of Serie A in Brazil, Internacional drew 0-0 against Atlético Goianiense. This meeting will be key to Boca Juniors' aspirations in their goal of continuing to advance in the Copa Libertadores. The cast led by Miguel Ángel Russo has just qualified for the second round after qualifying first in group H with 14 points in the six matches played. In addition, the previous weekend the xeneizes defea...

Copa Libertadores Palmeiras vs Delfín

Copa Libertadores Palmeiras vs Delfín 17:15 ET With the victory by 3 to 1, in Ecuador, in the first game, Verdão can lose by a goal difference to advance to the next phase. Even a stumble by two goals, as long as it is 2-0, ranks Verdão. After suffering with many absences in the last games due to an outbreak of Covid-19 in the squad, now the coach Abel Ferreira will already have almost the entire squad at his disposal. Verdão comes packed with a good moment, with ten wins in the last 12 games they played.  The Delfín phase is the opposite. The team is only in tenth place in the Ecuadorian Championship and has the difficult task of taking advantage of Palmeiras. LIVE STREAM

Copa Libertadores Flamengo vs Racing Club

Copa Libertadores Flamengo vs Racing Club 19:30 ET A week after having played the first leg in Avellaneda, Flamengo faces this new challenge against Racing with his mind set on winning and enforcing his hometown in order to seal his pass to the next instance. As visitors, those led by Rogério Ceni equaled one with the 'Academy', and now they will go out with everything to the Maracana field. Racing, for its part, has the most difficult task of all. And it is that Sebastián Beccacece's men are forced to score so that the visiting goal does not play a trick on them. However, it should be mentioned that so far this season in the toroneo, Flamengo has only received one goal at home and the rest of the duels were won by a landslide. LIVE STREAM

Copa Libertadores Santos vs Liga de Quito

Copa Libertadores Santos vs Liga de Quito 17:15 ET Yeferson Soteldo's team, a former player from the University of Chile, was at the level of Ecuador and won with annotations from the Venezuelan himself and Marinho, which gave the Brazilian team the victory and the advantage to play the second leg. Coach Cuca's team has been fighting for the qualification positions in the international cups and does not diminish the importance of the local competition, in fact this weekend they won 4 to 2 against Sport Recife in a new day of the Brasileirao. Liga de Quito, meanwhile, is also coming off a win after defeating Olmedo last Friday 3-0, with a double from Cristian Borja and another from Billy Arce. The Ecuadorian team is second in the local league, just one unit behind the leader. In this second round of the LigaPro of Ecuador, the Quito team is second. LIVE STREAM

Copa Libertadores River Plate vs Athletico-PR

Copa Libertadores River Plate vs Athletico-PR 17:15 ET Marcelo Gallardo's River will try to establish itself as a local and define the pass to the quarterfinals. A 0 to 0 will reach the Millionaire to be one of the eight classified. On Saturday, River beat Rosario Central 2-0 and qualified for the Championship Phase of the Diego Armando Maradona Cup. Paranaense gave the bad news that it has another five positive cases of COVID-19 within its campus, completing a total of 11 casualties from this pandemic. Over the weekend, the Brazilians fell 3-0 home to Palmeiras. LIVE STREAM

Copa Libertadores Guaraní vs Grêmio

Copa Libertadores Guaraní vs Grêmio 19:30 ET Both teams face each other in the stage of the 16 best with different backgrounds: while the Lusophones come from qualifying after taking the lead in their group, the Paraguayans were second in theirs. But there is a paradox: Guaraní managed to harvest more units than the Brazilians themselves at that stage: the Mediterranean were able to add 13 points, whereas those from Porto Alegre obtained eleven. Of course, the present of the aurinegros is not entirely auspicious in the local tournament, despite having a good participation in the most important cup at the club level in the continent, with regard to local competition, they have barely achieved add eight points out of 21 possible, which has it five units from the leader. As for Gremio, the Brazilians present is quite similar in the Brasileirao, where they register 34 points, although the close competition also makes them five positives behind the leader. LIVE STREAM

Copa Libertadores Delfín vs Palmeiras

Copa Libertadores Delfín vs Palmeiras 17:15 ET The Ecuadorian team arrived at this stage qualifying in second place in group G, which it shared with Santos, Defensa y Justicia and Olimpia. With two wins, a draw and three defeats, Delfín is the second worst qualified for the round of 16 of the tournament, but he will try to surprise and eliminate one of the candidates for the title. Palmeiras was the best of all in the group stage, finishing undefeated with five wins and one draw. The team led by Abel Ferreira has just been a semifinalist in the last two editions of the Copa Libertadores and will now go decisively in search of the title. LIVE STREAM

Copa Libertadores Racing Club vs Flamengo

Copa Libertadores Racing Club vs Flamengo 19:30 ET Racing Club will receive Flamengo, current champion of the cup, for the first match of a bracket that could perfectly be in final instances with two important teams from the continent that bet on good football. Of course, the visit comes between doubts after saying goodbye to his coach Domenec Torrent and introducing the historic goalkeeper Rogeiro Ceni. Great game and what will mean if or if the passage of a selected from the Red to quarterfinals in a key that is reserved for the forecast. In addition, another acquaintance from Chile is on the Academy bench: Sebastián Beccacece. Racing arrived at this stage after qualifying second in their group after Nacional, while the Brazilians were leaders of Group A over Independiente del Valle, Junior and Barcelona. LIVE STREAM

Copa Libertadores Liga de Quito vs Santos

Copa Libertadores Liga de Quito vs Santos 17:15 ET   The Brazilian albinegro club swept through Group G in the previous phase of the tournament, in which it triumphed irrefutably to score 16 points and put itself ahead of Delfín, Defensa y Justicia and Olimpia, the only one in the key who managed to get a point out of it. . The Ecuadorian albos also play a good role in the Libertadores despite the pressure to win the second round of the Ecuadorian championship to avoid the final, to which they are already classified, and automatically be crowned monarch after being victorious in the initial phase . In Group D they added 12 goals, in which they scored goals but also received them.   LIVE STREAM

Copa Libertadores Atletico-PR vs River Plate

Copa Libertadores Atletico-PR vs River Plate 17:15 ET River, champion of the 2018 edition, got into the round of 16 after finishing as leader of group D that he shared with Liga de Quito, Binacional, from Peru, and San Pablo, from Brazil, with 13 points as a result of four wins and one tie, 21 goals in favor (no team did more) and 6 against. Athletico Paranaense, for his part, was second in group C with 10 points behind Jorge Wilstermann, from Bolivia, who finished with a better goal difference (+3 against +2). River and Athletico Paranaense meet again a year and a half after the definition of the Recopa Sudamericana won by the "Muñeco" team. The Brazilians - winners of the Copa Sudamericana 2018, won the first leg on the artificial turf of Curitiba 1-0 but River turned the series around with a 3-0 win with two agonizing goals in injury time when it seemed that the title was defined by penalties. LIVE STREAM

Copa Libertadores Universidad Católica vs Internacional

Copa Libertadores Universidad Católica vs Internacional 20:30 ET Universidad Católica is the favorite for a complex game tonight in Santiago, and the duel with Inter is vital for the crossed intentions, although in the previous several problems were added with five injured for today. But UC still has a chance not to leave empty-handed, and this Thursday it will host Internacional de Porto Alegre for the last date in San Carlos de Apoquindo, a team that is practically classified for the next round. The crossed objective? Winning and dreaming of going to the Copa Sudamericana as third in their group. To do this, he must prevail over the Brazilians in the Pre-Cordillera and also wait for a tie or defeat for América de Cali, who visit Gremio, leader of the group. Equal equality serves those of La Franja, but for this the Colombians must lose by more than two goals. Light at the end of the tunnel for the university team, but that will have to raise its level in recent weeks to beat Inter, a...