Palmeiras took, on Wednesday night (17), a big step in an attempt to advance to the Copa Libertadores semifinals. The alviverde team played a good game and defeated River Plate 2-1 at Núñez Monumental Stadium in Buenos Aires and opened an advantage in the quarterfinals.
The return match is scheduled for next Wednesday (27) at Allianz Parque, in São Paulo. It is enough for Abel Ferreira’s men to protect the result built in Argentina. In case of equality in the sum of the scores, regardless of the goals scored away from home, there will be penalty shootout.
The alviverde victory began to be built just six minutes into the first half, in the head of Gustavo Gómez after the corner of Andreas Pereira’s corner kick. At 41, the score was expanded in a stolen ball in the attack field, with a good pass from Flaco López to Vitor Roque, I need to finish.
River grew in the final stage and had the dominance of possession after the break. He insisted until he got his goal on 44 minutes: Fourth finished from outside the area and had a piquerez deviation to decrease the disadvantage
The bid was mourned by Palmeiras players, who, despite this, is close to the semifinals. If you confirm the vacancy, you will face the winner of the duel between Sao Paulo and LDU, which will begin their clash this Thursday (18), in Ecuador.
