Conmebol held the draw for the round of 16 of the Copa Libertadores on Tuesday morning, and one of the most attractive matches will be the one between Inter from Porto Alegre and Argentina’s River Plate.

Those from Belo Horizonte managed to qualify for this instance of the Conmebol Championship after defeating Independiente de Medellín (3-1) on the last date of the group stage.

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The Brazilian team hopes to be crowned champions of the most important tournament at the club level in South America for the third time this season. To do so, the Colorados bolstered their squad with the inclusion of Ecuadorian forward Enner Valencia.

The 33-year-old forward is yet to make his debut for the Brazilian team, but Enner is expected to be available to coach Manu Menezes this weekend.

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Now with Superman Valencia Preparing for their premiership, Inter will play their passage to the quarter-finals against the Millionaires in the key which will start in the week of August 2-9 of the same month.

Considering that the Brazilians passed the first instance of the competition as points in the area, the key against the Argentines will be defined on the field green-yellow.

River Plate news

River Plate has a good present. El Millonario is the leader of the Argentinian championship, taking 9 points from its immediate follower, Talleres de Córdoba, and is most likely to win the title with five 5 dates until the end of the League.

At this stage of the tournament, despite the fact that the Argentinians qualified second in their 10-unit group ahead of Sporting Cristal and The Strongest, they closed their participation in the first stage with a convincing 2-0 victory against the Bolivians.

It will be the third meeting between both teams

In 2019, it was the only time that the millionaires and the Colorados met for the Copa Libertadores. Then both matches were played in the group stage and ended with identical results in both Brazil and Argentina.

In the first game played at the Beira-Rio Stadium, the Brazilians celebrated 2-0, but Gallardo’s team responded and Lucas Pratt’s goals equalized at 2. On the sixth day, at the Monumental Stadium, Julián Álvarez opened the scoring, then Rafael Sobis turned it around with a double, and about an hour Pratto reappeared and made the final 2-2.

In that edition of the Libertadores, the Brazilian team went to the round of 16 as the leader, and River, who would later reach the final, was second. (D)