IFFHS CONTINENTAL NEWS - COPA LIBERTADORES
Picture : Estevão Willian (Palmeiras) became in the game vs Liverpool Montevideo (3-1) the 3rd Brazilian player to score being under 17 in the Copa Libertadores (16 years 353 days).
Copa Libertadores: statistics on group stage match-day 2 (10-12 April)
*Only 3 teams (Atlético Mineiro, Bolívar and River Plate )have won both their games in first two rounds of games in the Copa Libertadores group stage.
So few teams starting an edition with 2 wins was last seen in 2011 (Cruzeiro, Deportivo San Martín and Junior).
*Estevão Willian (Palmeiras) became in the game vs Liverpool Montevideo (3-1) the 3rd Brazilian player to score being under 17 in the Copa Libertadores (16 years 353 days).
Only Ângelo Gabriel (16 years 106 days) and Endrick (16 years 321 days) did it before him.
In the overall ranking of the tournament’s youngest scorers, Estevão takes 6th position.
*Palmeiras has accumulated 32 consecutive games with scoring at home in the group stage of Copa Libertadores.
Last time they failed to score at home on 15 March 2006 (0-0 vs Rosario Central).
*River Plate vs Nacional (2-0) was the match between the 2 teams most experienced in the competition (813 games combined).
*Claudio Echeverri became the 3rd youngest (18 years 100 days) River Player scorer in the Copa Libertadores.
He only concedes to Javier Saviola (17 years 75 days) and Fernando Cavenaghi (17 years 166 days).
*German Cano has scored in the game vs Colo Colo (2-1) his 17th goal in Copa Libertadores for Fluminense. The Argentine striker tied Paolo Guerrero (Peru) who was the best foreign scorer of Brazilian clubs in the tournament.
*Flamengo achieved their 14th win in a row at home (vs Palestino 2-0) in Copa Libertadores games. It’s joint 3rd streak in the history of competition. Corinthians also have 14 games in 1999-2003.
The record belongs to El Nacional (Ecuador): 19 consecutive home wins between 1983 and 1995.
São Paulo is the 2nd in the ranking with 18 wins between 1992 and 2004.
*Peñarol (5-0 vs Caracas) scored 4 goals in the first half in a Copa Libertadores game for the first time since 1970, when they went 6-1 at halftime against Valencia Fútbol Club (Venezuela). That game ended 11-2.
*Maximiliano Silvera became the first Peñarol player to score a hat-trick in a Copa Libertadores game since José María Franco Ramallo who did it on 5 April 2000 against Universidad Católica.
*Atlético Mineiro (2-1 vs Rosario Central) are already unbeaten in 10 consecutive games against Argentine rivals in Copa Libertadores.
*Independiente Del Valle (2-0 vs San Lorenzo) still are very strong at home: they lost only one of their 31 home games in Copa Libertadores.
*Huachipato (Chile), with the 2-0 away win vs Grêmio, became the first club team to beat them twice as visitors in the Copa Libertadores group stage (also in 2013).
Three other clubs did it once each: Defensor Sporting (Uruguay) in 1982, Cruzeiro (Brazil) in 1997 and Libertad (Paraguay) in 2019.
*It was just 3rd case in the Copa Libetadores history to see a Chilean club beating a Brazilian away with more than +1 goal difference.
Other two such games are Flamengo vs Universidad Católica 1-3 (in 2002) and Palmeiras vs Colo-Colo 1-3 (in 2009).
*Huachipato is just the 2nd team in the history of Copa Libertadores to win over Gremio away by more than +1 goal difference. The previous one was Boca Juniors, in the final of the 2007 edition.
*Marc Enoumba (The Strongest) was sent off 8 minutes into the game vs Estudiantes (1-2). It is the earliest red card in the Copa Libertadores since 11 April 2019 when Jorge Toco was sent off in a Flamengo vs San José game after 4 minutes.