The Millionaire is practically forced to defeat Fluminense and The Strongest to avoid something that hasn’t happened since 2009.
For Riverthe first Libertadores cup In the post-Gallardo era, he has a headache for now, but he has two games to turn around a painful situation after a time of glory. In fact, he is practically obligated to win both games he has to play in the Monumental to avoid something that didn’t happen, precisely since the last time he played international competition without the Doll as a DT.
El Millonario is the Argentine team with the largest number of participations and fifth at continental level 39 in total out of 64 possible and since 2015 this has been done sequentially. And it was in the 2009, directed by Néstor Gorosito and two years before the relegation in Argentine football, the last time he failed to get past the group stage. On that occasion, he shared a group with National of Uruguay, national of Paraguay and San Martín de Porreswith no math probabilities after date 5. In total, he added seven points and finished third.
That occasion was, of course, the last, but not the first. Because the team of Núñez, champion in five editions, also had moments to forget and in total they were eight first-round eliminations: 1973, 1977, 1980, 1981, 1991, 1993, and 2007, in addition to those listed in 2009. And the curiosity is that those three previous ones had Daniel Passarella as a coach in two different cycles.
Source: Goal