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The second leg of the Copa Libertadores Final was suspended at the request of Boca Juniors after the extraordinary scenes on Saturday in Buenos Aires.
The second leg of the final among Argentina's fierce rivals was suspended after the Boca team bus was attacked by River Plate fans in Buenos Aires by a visiting team.
Many of the players, former Manchester United and Manchester City star Carlos Tevez, were injured in the attack.
Two weeks ago after an exciting first leg competing in 2-2 with the competition in El Monumental'la return leg scheduled to occur at 20. [GMT] tonight.
However, Boca made an official request to Conmebol & apos; s governing body for the relocation of the game in order to be played under "equality conditions" and the match was redesigned for the second time.
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2018-11-25T16: 17: 31.480Z
Boca's statement is full
Club Atletico Boca Juniors made a formal presentation to Conmebol to request that the Copa Libertadores final be played in equality terms, as was signed yesterday in Estadio Monumental.
Boca Juniors demanded to postpone the match because of the afternoons yesterday, giving priority to discussing the fixture on an equal basis. After violent actions around the stadium, Boca has confirmed the magnitude and seriousness of the game and his results in the squad, Boca believes that these conditions are not in place and demand the suspension of the match. Conmebol to act accordingly to apply the corresponding penalties referred to in Article 18.
2018-11-25T16: 03: 55.816Z
Boca statement
Boca Juniors demanded the suspension of the re-planned Copa Libertadores Final tonight.
Boca's statement, Saturday's CONMEBOL'a, outside the stadium after the violence of the game & # 39; s equal conditions & # 39; he said that he would play underneath, but did not think that his demands had been met and that he wanted the game to be suspended once again.
2018-11-25T12: 56: 16.416Z
A heated date
Saturday's violence came three years after the second leg of Copa Libertadores' last 16 ties between Boca and River was abandoned half an hour later.
2018-11-25T11: 41: 44.093Z
So, as it is, the final will take place today at 20.00. We will keep you up to date with all the actions on site and on the field. There is no need to say that the atmosphere in Buenos Aires will be strained today, so we hope the game can be played in the spirit of the game.
2018-11-25T09: 13: 01.240Z
Here is a summary of Saturday's piano scenes …
The encounter between the Buenos Aires rivals, the Boca bus to the stadium at the time of the attack came back to Sunday.
Television footage showed that river supporters threw objects on the bus as El Monumental landed on the ground.
Boca players were injured by broken glass glass shards and were also ill with the tear gas used by the police to disperse the crowd.
A number of players, including Boca's former Manchester City striker Carlos Tevez, experienced dizziness and vomiting, and had to be treated by club doctors, according to reports in Argentina. Apparently the players inside the Boca locker room showed the curve and disadvantageous.
Reports said Boca's Pablo Perez and Gonzalo Lamardo were taken to the hospital in an ambulance, with old broken glass strips in his eyes and a cut in the head of the latter. Perez was then painted with a bandage over his left eye.
At the beginning of the South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL), the game was postponed by one hour (until 16:00 local time), and until 19:00 (10:15 GMT), but with the organizers club. After the talks between the bosses, the match was finally agreed to be played the next day at 17:00 (8:00 GMT).
CONMEBOL chairman Alejandro Dominguez said both clubs had come to the "gentleman's agreement" and the game would not be played on Saturday.
2018-11-24T22: 41: 24.820Z
A "gentleman's pact"
Conmaker President Dominguez: "The two teams agreed to move the game tomorrow at 17:00 local time.
Boca Juniors said that they were not in any condition to play, and they did not want to take advantage of River Plate.
"There was an agreement between the presidents of both clubs and a" pact of the gentleman ".
2018-11-24T22: 32: 05.026Z
River Plate or Boca Juniors will have to wait to crown the Copa Libertadores after Boca's bus has been attacked before it is shot.
River supporters threw stones and wood on the bus near the River Monumental de Nunez Stadium and broke a few windows. The players hit the shattered windows and threw the objects and experienced the effects of tear gas and pepper gas used by the police to prevent violence.
The game played on Saturday lasted more than two hours, but at 17:00 on Sunday at 17:00 today.
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Date, time and space
The second leg of the final of the Copa Libertadores 2018 will take place on Saturday night in El Monumental, Buenos Aires, but was rescheduled on Sunday following Boca's coach and the coach.
Following another request from Boca, the game's re-planning for the "equality" due to the injury of the players confirmed that CONMEBOL has once again been suspended – there is no information on the new date.
How to watch which TV channel, online broadcast and live broadcast coverage?
The match will be available free of charge on FreeSports – the channel is available via Freeview (64), Sky (422), BT (64), Virgin (533), Freesat (252) and TalkTalk (64).
You can watch the match online with FreeSports on TVplayer.
The match will also be broadcast live on BT Spor 2 & # 39; s. IT Sports subscribers will be able to broadcast the match online via the video player and BT Sport app.
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