River could not with Atletico Mineiro and fell 1-0 in the Monumental for the first leg of the quarterfinals of the Liberators cup. The only so much of the night did Ignacio Fernandez, who enforced the inexorable law of the former but was also expelled. The Millionaire must travel to Brazil in search of the heroic once again.
The team of Gallardo It was more in the first half but he could not break the zero of the visitor’s goal, with a shot on the post by Fabrizio Angileri as the clearest of the first 45 minutes. The complement found River different, and Mineiro planted in a different way. More attentive, more direct and in that way he cornered the Millionaire.
Those from Belo Horizonte began to take the reins of the game and that was how, before the age of fifteen, they took the lead after a good collective move that Nacho Fernández defined, with a crossed left-footed shot that beat Franco Armani. River never found the return to the second half. Not even with the income of Matías Suárez (he returned from injury) and José Paradela.
Armani, in the absence of a minute, kept the “Millionaire” in series with a great cover against the head of the Hulk in the area after the stopped ball. River, who will not be able to count on Enzo Pérez in the rematch for accumulating three yellow cards, will have to look for another “epic” in Brazil.
For the Copa Libertadores, under the Gallardo cycle, they do very badly against Brazilian teams at home with defeats against Cruzeiro (2014), Gremio (2018), Palmeiras (2020) and now Atlético Mineiro (2021). Of the first three, it passed in two with triumphs in Belo Horizonte and Porto Alegre.
The present time does not mark a good moment for River and he will have to appeal to his mystical cup (and something else) to turn the series around, while the evil of absences increases with successive losses due to injuries, suspensions or now sales like Gonzalo Montiel’s.
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