River Plate, as a visitor, faces Nacional de Uruguay this Thursday for a place in the semifinal of the Copa Libertadores. The millionaire team, with a 2-0 aggregate in their favor, did not save anything and went to the Great Central Park with their best eleven, to seal the classification at the final request of this international competition.
With the two Colombians on the court, Marcelo Gallardo went out to find the match and in the 28th minute he scored the first goal. With one more man for the expulsion of Nacional’s goalkeeper in 18, the cross-band box, in a counter play commanded by Matías Suárez, left Jorge Carrascal hand in hand with a defender, whom he eluded with class to finish off on the edge of the area at the corner, leaving the local goalkeeper without reaction.
Minutes later, Nicolás de la Cruz was in charge of increasing the advantage. The midfielder took a right to the angle to beat Luis Ricardo Mejía again. that this time he did fly, but he was not enough to stop the shot.
At the end of the first half, the Uruguayans, through Ayrton Cougo, discounted the result.
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