After the victory against Colo-Colo, the River Plate goalkeeper continues to accumulate records for his successful career.
River Plate is a semi-finalist in the 2024 Copa Libertadores. The Millonario team defeated Colo-Colo yesterday by 1 to 0 in the second leg of the quarter-finals, which left the overall result at 2 to 1 after the first leg.
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In this way, those led by Marcelo Gallardo They are waiting for the winner between Atlético Mineiro and Fluminensewho will face each other tonight with a 1-0 aggregate in favour of Flu. In this sense, the semi-final matches will be played at the end of next month, the first leg on 23 October and the return leg on 30 October.
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The week for the Núñez team was highly positivenot only for their international ranking, but for their victory last Saturday against their classic rival, Boca Juniors. And one of the most outstanding in both matches was Franco Armani, River’s goalkeeper. And the fact is that “the Octopus” not only reaped victories at a group level, but also milestones at individual level.
River’s goalkeeper achieves new milestone after qualifying for the Copa Libertadores
With yesterday’s match against Colo-Colo, Armani became the River footballer with Most matches for Libertadores, with 70 appearances. In this way, equaled Leonardo Astrada’s numberwho until then was the leader of this statistic, above Hernán Díaz (67), Mostaza Merlo (63), Marcelo Gallardo (59), Leonardo Ponzio (57) and Ariel Ortega (48).
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As if this were not enough, the world champion with the National Team in Qatar 2022 also He reached 100 matches in this competition, which puts him in the top 4 of players with the most appearances in the Copa Libertadoressharing a position with Enzo Pérez as the Argentine players with the best number in this statistic. In this way, Armani He is 13 games away from equalling Ever Hugo Almeida’s recordUruguayan and naturalized Paraguayan goalkeeper who between 1973 and 1991 leads the list as he played 113 matches for Olimpia.
On the other hand, the goalkeeper of the Millionaire He had reached 300 games with the River jersey last Saturdayafter playing the match against Boca at La Bombonera.
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