Brazil's Gremio win Recopa Sudamericana


Porto Alegre (Brazil), Feb 22 (IANS): Brazil's Gremio defeated Argentine side Independiente on penalties to win their second Recopa Sudamericana here on Thursday.

After a 1-1 draw in last week's first leg in Buenos Aires, both teams were in a cautious mood early at Arena Gremio in southern Brazil, reports Xinhua.

Just like in the first match, Independiente were reduced to 10 men before halftime after Fernando Amorebieta was shown a straight red card for a bad foul.

Despite their numerical disadvantage, the visitors defended resolutely in the second half and in extra-time to force the match into penalties.

Both sides converted their first four spot kicks before Gremio goalkeeper Marcelo Grohe saved Martin Benitez's shot to secure his team the title at nearly 12.30 a.m. local time.

The Recopa Sudamericana is played annually between the winners of the Copa Libertadores -- South America's top club competition -- and the Copa Sudamericana, the continent's second-tier tournament.

Gremio, who won last year's Copa Libertadores, also lifted the Recopa Sudamericana trophy in 1996.

  

Top Stories


Leave a Comment

Title: Brazil's Gremio win Recopa Sudamericana



You have 2000 characters left.

Disclaimer:

Please write your correct name and email address. Kindly do not post any personal, abusive, defamatory, infringing, obscene, indecent, discriminatory or unlawful or similar comments. Daijiworld.com will not be responsible for any defamatory message posted under this article.

Please note that sending false messages to insult, defame, intimidate, mislead or deceive people or to intentionally cause public disorder is punishable under law. It is obligatory on Daijiworld to provide the IP address and other details of senders of such comments, to the authority concerned upon request.

Hence, sending offensive comments using daijiworld will be purely at your own risk, and in no way will Daijiworld.com be held responsible.