2019 Copa Libertadores Final

The 2019 Copa Libertadores Final decided the winner of the 2019 Copa Libertadores. This was the 60th edition of the Copa Libertadores, the top-tier South American continental club football tournament organized by CONMEBOL.[1]

2019 Copa Libertadores Final
Event2019 Copa Libertadores
Flamengo River Plate
2 1
Date23 November 2019 (2019-11-23)
VenueEstadio Monumental, Lima
RefereeRoberto Tobar (Chile)

The final was contested between Brazilian team Flamengo and the defending champions, River Plate from Argentina. This was the first Copa Libertadores final to be played as a single match at a neutral venue chosen in advance, replacing the previous home-and-away format. The match was played at the Estadio Monumental in Lima, Peru on 23 November 2019.

Flamengo won the match 2–1, securing their second tournament title. As champions, they qualified as the CONMEBOL representative at the 2019 FIFA Club World Cup and the 2020 Recopa Sudamericana. They also automatically qualified for the 2020 Copa Libertadores group stage.[2]

Teams
Team Previous finals appearances (bold indicates winners)
Flamengo 1 (1981)
River Plate 6 (1966, 1976, 1986, 1996, 2015, 2018)

Venue
Estadio Monumental in Lima, Peru, hosted the final.

In 2017, CONMEBOL proposed that the Copa Libertadores final should be held as a single match, replacing the existing two-legged format.[3] On 23 February 2018, CONMEBOL confirmed that the 2019 final onwards would be played as a single match at a venue chosen in advance,[4] and on 11 June 2018 set the date of the match as 23 November 2019.[5] On 14 August 2018, CONMEBOL announced that the 2019 final would be played in Santiago, Chile at the Estadio Nacional.[6]

Large street protests in Chile began on 14 October 2019, involving millions of protestors and resulting in the deaths of at least 24 people.[7] The protests led to safety concerns for the teams playing the match and their travelling fans. CONMEBOL consulted both finalists and their football associations, then on 5 November announced the match was moving to the Estadio Monumental in Lima, Peru, due to the ongoing unrest in Chile.[8]

This was the first final to be played as a single match at a neutral venue chosen in advance, replacing the home-and-away format used from 1988 to 2018.[9] The second leg of the 2018 final was played at Santiago Bernabéu Stadium in Madrid, Spain, the first final held outside of the Americas, after security concerns cancelled the original second leg at the stadium of River Plate in Buenos Aires.[10]

Show

Before the match, the Argentineans Fito Páez and Tini Stoessel, the Colombian Sebastián Yatra and the Brazilian Anitta, who performed "Y dale alegría a mi corazón", by Páez. Then two bands identified with the finalist teams participated: Turf, for River Plate, and Gabriel o Pensador, for Flamengo.[11]

Road to the final
Further information: 2019 Copa Libertadores

Note: In all scores below, the score of the home team is given first.

Flamengo Round River Plate
Opponent Venue Score Opponent Venue Score
Bye Qualifying stages Bye
Group D Group stage Group A
San José Away0–1 Alianza Lima Away1–1
LDU Quito Home3–1 Palestino Home0–0
Peñarol Home0–1 Internacional Away2–2
San José Home6–1 Alianza Lima Home3–0
LDU Quito Away2–1 Palestino Away0–2
Peñarol Away0–0 Internacional Home2–2
Pos Team Pld Pts
1 Flamengo 6 10
2 LDU Quito 6 10
3 Peñarol 6 10
4 San José 6 4
Source: CONMEBOL
Pos Team Pld Pts
1 Internacional 6 14
2 River Plate 6 10
3 Palestino 6 7
4 Alianza Lima 6 1
Source: CONMEBOL
Seed 7 Final stages Seed 10
Emelec
(tied 2–2 on aggregate, won 4–2 on penalties)		 Away0–2 Round of 16 Cruzeiro
(tied 0–0 on aggregate, won 4–2 on penalties)		 Home0–0
Home2–0 Away0–0
Internacional
(won 3–1 on aggregate)		 Home2–0 Quarterfinals Cerro Porteño
(won 3–1 on aggregate)		 Home2–0
Away1–1 Away1–1
Grêmio
(won 6–1 on aggregate)		 Away1–1 Semifinals Boca Juniors
(won 2–1 on aggregate)		 Home2–0
Home5–0 Away0–1

Format

The final is played as a single match at a pre-selected venue, with the higher-seeded team designated as the "home" team for administrative purposes.[12] If scores are level after full time, 30 minutes of extra time would be played. If still tied after extra time, a penalty shoot-out would be used to determine the winner.[13][14]

Match

Summary

River Plate opened the match in a 2–3–3–2 formation, which allowed their midfield to dominate. This tactic gained them an early lead, when Rafael Santos Borré scored in the 14th minute from a cross by Ignacio Fernández. River Plate had numerous chances for a second goal in the first half: Borré missed a opportunity by inches, Nicolás De La Cruz missed a good chance in the 21st minute, and Exequiel Palacios had two long-distance shots that nearly went in. However River Plate were unable to capitalise on these opportunities, so at half time the score remained 1-0.[15][16]

River Plate continued to dominate in the early part of the second half. However, Flamengo began to assert themselves on the counter-attack, with Gabriel Barbosa and Éverton Ribeiro nearly scoring while Borré was down with an injury. Flamengo substitute Diego was brought on for Gerson in the 66th minute, and he helped Flamengo turn the match around. Diego began several counter-attacks, including in the 75th minute when he linked up with Bruno Henrique Pinto and Gabriel. The score was still 1-0 in the 89th minute, with River Plate seeking to finish off the game, when Flamengo's Arrascaeta won the ball from Lucas Pratto in his own half, and started a counter-attack by passing to Bruno Henrique. Henrique dribbled the ball down the left wing and cut inside; near the opposing goal, he passed the ball to Arrascaeta, who avoided the goalkeeper's challenge to pass to an open Gabriel who scored a tap-in to tie the game.[17]

Three minutes later (in the second minute of injury time), Diego launched a deep pass from his own half that both River Plate centre backs missed. This allowed Gabriel to score again, giving Flamengo a 2-1 lead. The sudden reversal of fortune caused tempers to flare: Palacios kicked Bruno Henrique in the 95th minute, for which he received a red card. Gabriel Barbosa sarcastically applauded the referee in response; he also received a red card. The match ended shortly thereafter. After being behind for most of the match, Flamengo emerged as last minute champions, winning their second Copa Libertadores title.[15][16]

Details
Flamengo 2–1 River Plate
Gabriel Barbosa  89', 90+2' Report Borré  14'
Referee: Roberto Tobar (Chile)
Flamengo
River Plate
GK1 Diego Alves
RB18 Rafinha 79'
CB3 Rodrigo Caio
CB24 Pablo Marí 54'
LB21 Filipe Luís
CM5 Willian Arão 85'
CM15 Gerson 65'
RW7 Éverton Ribeiro (c)
AM14 Giorgian De Arrascaeta 90+2'
LW27 Bruno Henrique
CF9 Gabriel Barbosa 90+2'  90+5'
Substitutes:
GK12 César
DF2 Rodinei
DF4 Rhodolfo
DF6 Renê
DF26 Matheus Thuler
MF10 Diego 65'
MF13 Vinícius
MF19 Reinier
MF25 Robert Piris Da Motta 90+2'
FW11 Vitinho 85'
FW20 Lincoln
FW28 Orlando Berrío
Manager:
Jorge Jesus
GK1 Franco Armani
RB29 Gonzalo Montiel
CB28 Lucas Martínez Quarta
CB22 Javier Pinola (c)
LB20 Milton Casco 29' 76'
DM24 Enzo Pérez 70'
RM26 Ignacio Fernández 68'
CM15 Exequiel Palacios 90+5'
LM11 Nicolás De La Cruz
CF19 Rafael Santos Borré 74'
CF7 Matías Suárez 45+1'
Substitutes:
GK14 Germán Lux
GK25 Enrique Bologna
DF2 Robert Rojas
DF4 Fabrizio Angileri
DF6 Paulo Díaz 76'
MF5 Bruno Zuculini
MF10 Juan Fernando Quintero
MF21 Cristian Ferreira
MF23 Leonardo Ponzio
FW9 Julián Álvarez 68'
FW27 Lucas Pratto 74'
FW30 Ignacio Scocco
Manager:
Marcelo Gallardo

Assistant referees:[18][19]
Christian Schiemann (Chile)
Claudio Ríos (Chile)
Fourth official:
Andrés Rojas (Colombia)
Video assistant referee:
Esteban Ostojich (Uruguay)
Assistant video assistant referees:
Piero Maza (Chile)
Alexander Guzmán (Colombia)
Víctor Carrillo (Peru)

Match rules

  • 90 minutes.
  • 30 minutes of extra time if necessary.
  • Penalty shoot-out if scores still level.
  • Twelve named substitutes.
  • Maximum of three substitutions, with a fourth allowed in extra time.

Post-match

Flamengo won their second Copa Libertadores and earned the right to represent CONMEBOL at the 2019 FIFA Club World Cup in Qatar. Jorge Jesus became the second non-South American manager to win the Copa Libertadores, following Mirko Jozić's 1991 championship for Colo-Colo.[20] The club went on to clinch the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A title a day later after the second-place team was mathematically eliminated from reaching the title.[21] Flamengo became the first Brazilian club to earn a league and continental double since Santos FC did in 1963. The victory celebrations in Rio de Janeiro attracted tens of thousands of fans as the players rode in an open-top bus, but ended with clashes between riot police and spectators.[22][23]

Flamengo's two late goals to overturn a 0–1 deficit invited comparisons to the 1999 UEFA Champions League Final, in which Manchester United defeated Bayern Munich in a similar fashion.[24]

Broadcasting

In Brazil, the match was broadcast by Rede Globo with commentary provided by Luiz Roberto, Júnior and Walter Casagrande, in addition to Fox Sports on cable television with commentary provided by Nivaldo Prieto, Edmundo and Paulo Vinicius Coelho. The broadcast attracted 41.1 million viewers, with almost half of the television sets in Brazil were watching the Globo's broadcast.[25]

See also

References
  1. "Reglamento CONMEBOL Libertadores 2019" (PDF). CONMEBOL.
  2. "¡Flamengo campeón de la CONMEBOL Libertadores 2019!". CONMEBOL. 23 November 2019.
  3. "Así cambiará la Copa Libertadores desde el 2019". publimetro.co. 3 October 2017.
  4. "La CONMEBOL Libertadores se definirá en final única a partir de 2019 con mayores beneficios a los clubes y la competencia". CONMEBOL. 23 February 2018.
  5. "Definida la fecha de la final de la Copa Conmebol Libertadores 2019" (in Spanish). El Tiempo. 11 June 2018.
  6. "Histórica decisión: Final Única de la Libertadores 2019 en Santiago y Final Única de la Sudamericana 2019 en Lima". CONMEBOL. 14 August 2018.
  7. Esposito, Anthony (15 November 2019). "Human rights abuse accusations proliferate in Chile unrest". Reuters. Reuters. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
  8. "Copa Libertadores final moved from Santiago to Lima due to unrest in Chile". ESPN. 5 November 2019. Retrieved 11 November 2019.
  9. "Cuando a Newell's se le escapó su primera final de Copa Libertadores". El Gráfico (in Spanish). Retrieved 24 November 2019.
  10. "Final de la CONMEBOL Libertadores 2018 se jugará el domingo 9 de diciembre en el Santiago Bernabéu de Madrid | CONMEBOL". www.conmebol.com. Retrieved 24 November 2019.
  11. en / show-of-international-stars-to-start-the-only-end-of-the-conmebol-liberators-2019 International star show to begin the Single Final of the CONMEBOL Libertadores 2019
  12. Reglamento, p. 30.
  13. Reglamento, p. 31.
  14. Blitz, Sam (22 November 2019). "Copa Libertadores Final 2019: how to watch, who is playing and how it works". FourFourTwo.com. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
  15. Ellerby, Nick (23 November 2019). "Flamengo stage incredible comeback to beat River Plate and become champions of South America". copalibertadores.com. CONMEBOL. Retrieved 24 November 2019.
  16. Chowdhury, Saj (23 November 2019). "Copa Libertadores: Flamengo beat River Plate with two late goals". BBC. BBC. Retrieved 24 November 2019.
  17. Unwin, Will (23 November 2019). "Flamengo 2–1 River Plate: Copa Libertadores final – as it happened". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 November 2019.
  18. "Roberto Tobar es el árbitro designado para dirigir la final de la CONMEBOL Libertadores" (in Spanish). CONMEBOL. 12 November 2019.
  19. "Sustitución de Árbitro VAR de la final de la CONMEBOL Libertadores 2019" (in Spanish). CONMEBOL. 19 November 2019.
  20. "Late goals give Flamengo dramatic Copa Libertadores title". The Washington Post. Associated Press. 23 November 2019. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
  21. "Flamengo win Brazilian league while celebrating Copa Libertadores title". ESPN. Reuters. 24 November 2019. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
  22. "Flamengo clinch double as Rio celebrations are marred by clashes". The Guardian. 24 November 2019. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
  23. "Flamengo's Copa Libertadores celebrations end in clashes". Sky Sports. 25 November 2019. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
  24. "Flamengo lift Copa Libertadores with last-gasp 2-1 win over River Plate". France 24. 23 November 2019.
  25. Kantar Ibope - Dados de audiência nas 15 praças regulares com base no ranking consolidado – 18/11 a 24/11/2019
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