In the next phase, Rio team will face Argentina’s Estudiantes, who eliminated Cerro Porteño
After a 20-minute delay at the Beira-Rio stadium in Porto Alegre, because of the animated celebration of the colorado crowd left the lawn completely covered with chopped paper, which made the start of the duel unfeasible to the full cleaning of the field, and were able to play the game back from Libertadores’s round of 16 on Wednesday (20). Uruguayan referee Esteban Ostojich only authorized the beginning after employees cleaned the field, in a coordinated effort with networks and a lot of disposition.
In the outward duel, played in Maracanã, Flamengo won 1-0, with a goal by Bruno Henrique. This Wednesday, at the house of the rival won 2-0, with goals from Arrascaeta, who scored in the first half after enjoying the goalkeeper of Inter, and Pedro in a quiet play in the final stage. With this result, the red-black secured the place in the quarterfinals of Libertadores, with the aggregate score of 3 to 0-considering the results of both games. In the quarterfinals, he will face Argentina Estudiantes, who eliminated Cerro Porteño.
