River Plate (ARG) vs Libertad (PRY)| DESTACADOS LIBERTADORES | 14/05/2024 | beIN SPORTS
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00:00 In these first four games of the group, Libertad sits in third of the group with four points
00:07 and Deportivo Tachirap with one point in last.
00:13 Here are the results.
00:32 It's all in the past for some at least. The way we go there, we go the plate in their traditional white shirts, that red band across the chest and the black shorts. Are we going for purple?
00:52 Alemo just around the corner. It is also by the way where the final of the competition will be held this year. And this snapshot is turned away, Nadja Fernandez.
01:09 One of those players who tends to go for him from here on in because to start a big club in Paraguay, there are steps up to be taken, but nonetheless, a long career ahead of him.
01:19 Here come River trying to exploit the flanks. Those white shirts are forward. Collegio couldn't really get hold of it properly. Chances are there to clear.
01:30 Very... Not a particularly tall side, River Plate.
01:39 Bags of technical steel though to make up for that deficiency. That should have been left perhaps.
01:49 Tantana is taking a swing against Sanchal Cordova. What abouts were you in this stand?
01:55 I was in one of the lower tiers, near halfway or so.
02:02 Beautiful curl with the ball in the air. Too high.
02:07 It was... I keep asking about this. It was my son's first game.
02:13 Without that real experience.
02:17 Silverware in the elite portion of the Argentine Canada last year always helps of course.
02:23 Here come River. Borja stretching. Keep the flaps in it. It hits Borja on the turf.
02:30 Libertad wanted a handball in their favour. Might just get it now.
02:37 Well willing to press.
02:41 Trying to find a way through the corners for the away side. Just starting to mount up.
02:46 Sanabrio again. There's some confusion inside the area.
02:50 Just about dealt with. The presence of a rather suntanned Rocky Santa Cruz.
02:57 Causing... finding it a bit hard at times to impose himself for a teenager.
03:04 It wasn't a surprise to see him being shifted out very early on against Sanchal Cordova at the weekend.
03:12 Nice bit of football here from Libertad. They just can't get the finish.
03:18 River. And as you said, you wonder whether... you look at how Guardiola brought through Phil Foden for example.
03:24 Don't you really? This year, the last 18 months that Foden's really become the absolute first choice for Guardiola.
03:32 Now an opportunity for the man we're talking about. Goes wide.
03:38 Couldn't get it from under his feet.
03:40 Just the one club qualified so far to the knockout stage.
03:46 That's Tageres of Cordova.
03:48 Oh, tapped away!
03:51 Correggio, quite sure which part of the body bounced off the number 11.
03:55 Nacho Fernandez again. Aims at the far post on that occasion.
04:07 Mufali was on there momentarily and just drops onto the roof of the net.
04:13 There's the reverse. Header off the upright.
04:17 Whistle's gone. Contact on the keeper.
04:21 But then really make sure that they make it count on the occasions when they do manage to get forward.
04:29 A river can get forward here. Correggio, ball across the area. Would have been spectacular.
04:35 Agiberti off balance.
04:38 On the match, because he's not really done a lot so far, but Libertad haven't.
04:44 And it's a bit of a challenge for the players.
04:47 It's a bit of a challenge for the players.
04:50 It's a bit of a challenge for the players.
04:53 On the match, because he's not really done a lot so far, but Libertad haven't.
04:59 And they push forward.
05:02 And now a shot!
05:05 It's hit though by Borja!
05:07 And River Plate are in front, late on in this first half.
05:12 You were talking about the tridents.
05:15 And one of them stabs it into the net.
05:18 Diak to this. Ball played out wide.
05:23 Borja took it down very, very well.
05:27 Just that little bit of space it dropped.
05:30 Maybe a slight touch from a teammate as well, which fell to the Colombian.
05:36 But he did enough to stab it forward.
05:39 And looking at it from behind the goal, you might question Mourinho maybe.
05:44 Could he have done a little bit?
05:47 Plenty of purple shirts to aim for.
05:50 He needed to have been better.
05:52 And the volley that was not far off target!
05:56 Armani looks round Caballero's effort.
06:15 Libertad rather change.
06:18 It really is for a goalkeeper you expect it, but not really for a centre forward.
06:21 Such an unusual case. Santa Cruz.
06:25 Played behind, Borja, but lots of River shirts want to make it to...
06:31 It's tame in the end.
06:33 Asco.
06:35 No power at all.
06:38 And really up is on a plate.
06:40 Into the night sky.
06:44 Libertad will be taking heart.
06:47 They've been allowed to get the ball into these kind of areas.
06:50 It's mishit. Shooting opportunities on.
06:52 It deflects. Another corner for the away side.
06:55 You can see the game plan. It's up and under.
06:57 Want to go for a direct shot on goal.
07:03 I think that's the intention.
07:05 As it bounces just wide of the upright.
07:09 Off top and then almost punished.
07:18 Sanabria. Long way out.
07:21 Little ball over the top.
07:24 Nice little combination play.
07:27 Echeverry.
07:30 Good volley. Stabs it forward in the end.
07:33 Borja onside.
07:35 So clever at playing the line.
07:37 Corleggio. Four-step wide.
07:39 Dribbling in. It's not far off target.
07:42 Good break.
07:47 He released it.
07:57 A fraction of a second too late.
08:00 Out of the blue. A terrific strike.
08:03 Just a little bit more respectable.
08:07 Stringing the passes together here.
08:11 Now looking good for a second into the body of the keeper.
08:15 Mourinho didn't have to move from Pablo Solari.
08:19 Haven't seen a lot from Santana in this second period.
08:26 Corleggio will give chase.
08:29 Mourinho back on his line.
08:33 Invites the effort on goal but it's tame, isn't it?
08:37 I wonder if Aliendro just...
08:40 Everyone's trying to get the ball to him immediately.
08:44 Nice height as well at 16.180.
08:47 We've talked about the pressure on Echeverry.
08:50 The same goes for Mastantuono.
08:53 They're made, aren't they, for these kind of clubs?
08:56 Brought up.
08:58 As Borja makes that space for himself
09:01 and gets a second.
09:03 And that will seal it now.
09:05 Well, he did it in the first.
09:07 He's done it again.
09:09 Well, it looked like the goal might not come.
09:12 That will ease the nerves for the remainder of this match.
09:15 Borja makes it two.
09:17 It's much like the first half.
09:19 It's not really in the game.
09:21 Hasn't done a huge amount.
09:23 The second half, you've got to add in the fact
09:26 that River haven't really been in the game as much as they were.
09:29 It's so simple when you look at it.
09:32 A couple of touches, finds a bit of space.
09:35 And nothing that Mourinho can do about it.
09:40 And that should be all points settled then in this game.
09:44 All points staying in Buenos Aires.
09:47 Did take a slight knock on its way in.
09:51 The man in gloves.
09:53 In any free kicks in that real danger zone
09:56 where he could test Armani because he's got a brilliant record
09:59 from set pieces.
10:01 A wonderful curl on this one.
10:04 Mourinho.
10:06 So it's open this year in the Libertadores.
10:09 We're losing Endre.
10:11 Correct as well in August.
10:13 He goes to Real Madrid as well.
10:16 Spanning the goals, another teenager.
10:21 River looking for a third.
10:23 Won't get it on that occasion.
10:25 30 seconds or so remaining here.
10:30 River about to do a double over Libertadores.
10:32 2-1 win away in Paraguay.
10:34 2-0 at the moment.
10:38 Just about a minute remaining here.
10:49 Referee reaches for his best shot for the final time.
10:53 It's in.
10:55 It's in.
10:57 It's in.
10:59 It's in.
11:01 It's in.