After the round of 16 games of the Libertadores end, only a Brazilian team lost. And it was for another Brazilian: Flamengo won Internacional in a very disputed game. Botafogo and O, and Sao Paulo drew away from home. The Brazilian teams did well in Libertadores.
The return games are: On Tuesday Sao Paulo hosts Atletico Nacional, on Wednesday Flamengo goes to Porto Alegre to face Inter, and on Thursday Botafogo climbs the hill to face LDU and Palmeiras hosts the university of Peru.
Four games, four sentences
Hernán Crespo’s team needs a simple victory to move to the quarterfinals. São Paulo has an excellent average of 2.2 goals scored per game at Morumbis. The point is that Atletico Nacional is one of those boring teams that bother as a visitor, where it has an average of 1.8 goal scored per game. If you can not conceding goals from the “Verdulagas”, Tricolor will be closer to qualifying.
Practically classified, Palmeiras can even take the luxury of playing with reserve team against the university. In the first leg, the Peruvian team showed a tremendous lack of defensive organization, leaving many spaces for the counterattacks Palmeiras. With 0x3 in the first half, the summer took the foot off the throttle. The 0x4 became small for what the game showed. If the university can beat Palmeiras by 4 goals difference in Allianz, it can deliver the title to the Peruvians.
All open in Porto Alegre
With the goal scored at 14 seconds of the game, Botafogo could not expand against LDU, even suffering pressure from Ecuadorians who could have tied the match, were it not for the inspired night of goalkeeper John. There in Quito, at altitude, the stove will need more than defending to be able to qualify. At home, the LDU has an average of 1.8 goal scored and Botafogo, of 0.2 goal conceded. Will you hold the Ecuadorian pressure?
And speaking of pressure, the great match of this round of 16 was undoubtedly the tactical class that the teams of Filipe Luís and Roger Machado delivered. If in the first half Flamengo made room in attack with a line of mobile and fast players, against an Inter who opted for the average block and resist defensively; In the second half the colorado that took the reins of the match against a mengão who did not find offensive solutions. Everything is open to the return game. If the Brazilian teams did well in Libertadores, no doubt international and Flamengo delivered the best show.
