Copa: Wed - Fri (AM)

[kompressaur]

Copa South America

Wednesday, 27/09/2006 Best Odds 01:00 Tolima - Pachuca 2.15 3.25 3.40 03:15 Toluca - El Nacional 1.41 4.00 7.50 Thursday, 28/09/2006 Best Odds 00:15 River Plate - Atl. Paranaense 1.60 3.75 6.00 03:00 Corinthians - Lanus 1.60 3.75 5.50 03:00 San Lorenzo - Santos 2.00 3.35 3.80 Friday, 29/09/2006 Best Odds 00:15 Fluminense - Gimnasia LP 1.95 3.25 3.80 02:45 Madeira - Boca Juniors 2.63 3.27 2.42 02:45 Nac. Montevideo - Boca Juniors 2.55 3.20 2.45

[kompressaur]

River plate grrrrrrrrr

The Battle of River Plate being a famous maritime battle in which the Graff Spey(??) was blown upmand then they went hunting the Bismark.

Anyone any fancies this week?

[raven]

If that 6.00 is still available on Atl Paranaense, it's a good 'un.

At the least, you should be able to green up nicely on bf before ko.

River will not play their best 11:

River Plate: Germán Lux; José San Román, Cristian Nasuti, Danilo Gerlo, Lucas Mareque; Augusto Fernández, Lucas Pusineri, Marcelo Sosa, Víctor Zapata; Gonzalo Higuaín y Ernesto Farías.
[probable]

[fejas]

Three matches on Wednesday and one on Thursday mark the first leg of the matches between Brazilian and Argentinean teams in the Copa Sudamericana, or South American Cup. This Wednesday, Corinthians plays Lanus in Sao Paulo, while Atletico Paranaense and Santos travel to Buenos Aires to face River Plate and San Lorenzo, respectively.

In Sao Paulo, Corinthians tries to break a seven-game winless streak against teams from Argentina, dating back to 2001. The game against Lanus is also special for coach Emerson Leao, facing the team for the first time since he was involved in a fight with employees of the club in Buenos Aires in 1997, when he was coaching Atletico Mineiro. For tonight's game, midfielder Magrao will be rested to recover from a thigh injury, but the rest of the team should be the same that has been playing regularly in the Brazilian League. Lanus is currently in eighth place in Argentina's Apertura Tournament. Trying to get at least one away goal in the first leg, coach Ramon Cabrero has said he will not take an ultra-defensive approach, but rather try to open things up.

Meanwhile, Santos travels to Buenos Aires to face San Lorenzo. The team will play without midfielders Ze Roberto and Maldonado, and will again likely give a chance to many youngsters to get some match practice and international experience. Coach Wanderley Luxemburgo has not announced his starting team, but has frequently claimed the South American competition is not the team's priority this season. San Lorenzo, which is trying to recover from a 1-0 loss to Lanus on Sunday, will be without three players this Wednesday: Pablo Quattrocchi and Andres Silvera are injured, and Diego Rivero is suspended. Santiago Hirsig has been cleared to play by team doctors.

In an earlier game, Atletico Paranaense faces traditional side River Plate in the Monumental de Nunez Stadium. Teams will be taking a different approach to the game, however. Atletico will have all its main players available. River will field a reserve side, with eight changes from the starting squad that tied Colon 1-1 on Sunday in the Argentine League.

On Thursday, the other Brazilian team in the competition, Fluminense, faces Gymnasia y Esgrima in Rio de Janeiro.

Cheers,

Carlos
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[raven]

River Plate 0-1 Atletico PR

people should listen to me more.

[GaNgStA kEeKs]

Forgot to check the final score. Saw it 1-0 after 65 mins but didn't check back.

Great tipping and thanks for sharing.

Hopefully a few got on it

[fejas]

The last game of the first leg in the round of 16 involving a Brazilian team takes place tonight at the Maracana Stadium, when Fluminense hosts Gimnasia La Plata. Coach Antonio Lopes decided to radically change the way the team had been playing, unhappy with the poor display shown at the 3-1 home loss to Fortaleza last weekend. The system using three defensive midfielders has been abandoned, and attacking midfielders Juliano e Juninho return to the team - the latter coming back after missing ten months with a knee injury. Marcelo will be moved from the midfield back to his natural left back position, and defensive midfielder Marcao returns to the team. Rogerio replaces Rissut in the right-back position, and forward Petkovic misses another game due to a thigh injury. Gimnasia's coach Pedro Troglio will probably opt for a defensive formation, with a strengthened midfield. The team will probably be the same that defeated Rosario Central 1-0 last weekend in the Argentine League. That is to say, forward Martin Cardetti remains out, but midfielder Guly (formerly from AC Milan) has been confirmed.

Cheers,

Carlos
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Brazilian Futebol - http://www.brazilianfutebol.blogspot.com