00:02Here we go then, nothing quite beats a limited order's night, nothing quite beats an Argentina
00:13Brazil clash in this tournament at this stage and then it's two giants of this competition, all the better
00:29Two sides have met so often over the years, they are among each other's most frequent opponents
00:37They will meet again twice over the course of the next week
00:44And we are underway here in La Plata, Estudiantes against Flamengo
00:49In the Commonwealth Libertadores semi-finals, first leg, Estudiantes in their traditional red and white stripes
00:56Flamengo in their change, mostly all white, going left or right
01:05Eric Pulgar Piquetar, one of those enormous money signings for Flamengo
01:12Kind of signing, frankly, that only they in South America could make a shot from this
01:17Don't save by Rossi
01:19Rossi down onto the rebound, denies, Balthazar Rodriguez seemed to see that one a little late
01:29Through the crowd of players, narrowly missing a deflection, Rossi down to it
01:33And very quickly up to get onto the rebound as well
01:41Rossi, a former Estudiantes man
01:44As well as Boca Juniors in goal for Flamengo
01:47A member of the side that won this competition last year
01:53Another shot from distance coming in from Estudiantes this time
01:56Right down the left, the cross comes in
01:58Half cleared away by Santiago Nunez, but delivered back in
02:02Could be a charge, Bruno Enrique climbs
02:04And just cannot direct his header on target
02:12Good delivery, onside Bruno Enrique
02:15And in the end
02:18That's Don Benedetti does just enough
02:21And he's back to make that header
02:24All the more difficult
02:25Ball won cleanly
02:26The supporters didn't appreciate that
02:28The play goes on, PLV
02:30And that's deflected behind for a corner
02:32There's appeals for a handball
02:34Half-hearted appeals from Balthazar Rodriguez
02:37And a few other players
02:38Who perhaps wouldn't have had the best sight of that anyway
02:45Tiago Palacios
02:47Cleanly tackled by Eric Poulgar
02:49According to the referee
02:51And then this, the block
02:53Maybe catching an arm that was
02:55Very close to the body
02:57Positive restart from Estudiantes
03:02Who are looking to break forward with a purpose
03:04Committing to the attack
03:06Cross comes in
03:06At the back post
03:07A re-shot
03:10Straining to get there
03:11Couldn't quite redirect the header back across goal
03:19A warning nonetheless for Flamengo
03:24Who will have to get much closer and tighter to Guido Carrillo
03:34Just a down
03:35Tobio Verdagos
03:37Entirely sure what he was going for
03:41He was trying to go for goal with the outside of his boot
03:44He didn't
03:46Didn't
03:46Quite find
03:48The right part of his foot
03:49As it
03:49Went straight across the side of the pitch for a throw-in
03:53And it is Estudiantes
03:54Who have looked more dangerous
03:57Through the opening 32 minutes
04:06And it is
04:06Leo Ortiz
04:06Wins the header
04:07It is dropped here for Benedetti
04:08However, Benedetti with the cross in
04:11Balls at the back post for Rodriguez
04:13The shot is deflected
04:14It is going to be another corner
04:17And it is still Estudiantes
04:19The side knocking
04:20On the door
04:22And it comes
04:23From his body and Nunez
04:26Stand behind the goal
04:27Absolutely rocking
04:29This place will
04:31Explode
04:32If Estudiantes
04:33Can find
04:33The way into the back of the net
04:35Header on goal by Nunez
04:36Header on goal by Nunez
04:37Tamely straight at Augustine Rossi
04:49Now 35 years of age
04:51ữa Mouğlu
04:52Well down the packing over
04:53Cross in
04:54good away by Mancuso
04:55and the volley from the edge of the area by Migues
04:58off target
05:01In a rare shot and goal for Flamengo
05:03just at the end of the first half
05:05and the run
05:20and the yard
05:23well the referee brings the first half to an end before the taking of that goal kick
05:28and at the end of the first 45 minutes is Estudiantes nil, Flamengo nil
05:34the last back outs as we are ready to go, Estudiantes get the ball rolling once again
05:43as we resume with the second half here, Estudiantes nil, Flamengo nil
05:48two sides vying for a place in this is the Libertadores final
05:54Diago Palacios and Alexis Castro to some extent and the full backs all get forward Mancuso does here
06:01and having bundled his way into the area had a very good shooting opportunity
06:10drags his effort well wide in the end had no right to get there
06:14somehow just kept on going
06:18time
06:32your bird boss keeps in play and it was the cross in the volley on goal by tiago palas is
06:39not easiest he's running away from goal almost had to hook it back over his shoulder
06:45it's well off target but it continues the pattern of the first half
06:49goes down rather softly but have some sympathy there with Bruno Enrique
06:54the corner coming in towards Carillo again heads it on goal
06:57but this time just wide Nunez in the end it was climbing
07:03not for the first time this evening Estudiantes on their corners
07:07have been able to find a red and white head
07:18someone who came through at Estudiantes as a youngster often played in one of the wider positions
07:23chance may be here the first one Bruno Enrique's shots blocked by Nunez
07:31Estudiantes get the ball away
07:43free kick taken by Balthazar Rodriguez low bouncing and into the hands of Agustin Rossi
07:52Rossi has been the busier of the two goalkeepers by some distance
07:56unfortunately for Estudiantes
07:59only every save he's had to make has been one that has been straight at him
08:06Tobio Bergos will this time deliver a good ball in
08:12tutaj has been journalist
08:13over the top goes up up Boudes Mori
08:13over the top to a top and a touch looks like it came off people is Marty
08:18over the top gets over the top the world got from Fabian
08:38over the head of Carijo. Forced to Mancuso. Mancuso holds off a challenge, chance to cross again.
08:46Carijo at the back post, Cetres there. And a diving header that deflects wide as Carijo signals
08:55there to Mancuso, inches away. Cetres again with a good delivery in, turn goalwards.
09:06That's a fantastic block, a vital block inside the six-yard box.
09:25Two super deliveries from Cetres, but how about that?
09:32Alexandro makes a vital intervention there inside his own six-yard box.
09:37He only lost two of 31 home games in the knockout phases of the Liverpools over the years.
09:4323 wins in those 31 games. Only defeats coming into Barcelona in 1971,
09:53an Atletico Panamense in 2022. Cetres!
09:57Picks on goal, another one. Straight at Roffsie.
10:02How many have there been like that this afternoon?
10:06He's obviously getting his positioning right, and in the end being left with
10:09a little more than catching practice.
10:17And there goes the full-time whistle. It does indeed end goalless.
10:22But it is just a halfway point in the tie. Estudiantes nil, Flamengo nil, here in La Plata.
10:30They will meet again in a week's time in Rio de Janeiro to decide this one.
10:45There is just one more time.
10:45ally in Brown is that because there is no right behind the door,
10:45Probably not right.
10:45There are only 1-6 people in orange home cups with the American
10:45Let us get back.
10:46Let us know if you can find today.
