Diego Armando Maradona smoked his Cuban cigar while looking down from his suite in the Bonbonera. All he saw was perfection on the field when the final whistle blew. Boca Juniors suffered at times as Mexico’s Atlas dominated portions of the game but in a moment Rodrigo Palacio snuck in behind the defense and scored the opener. Atlas pushed their lines up looking for the equalizer, all for nothing as in the second half once again Palacio increased the lead and scored his second goal. Finally not even a minute later the ball found the head of Martin Palermo who placed the ball beyond the keepers reach to score his 180-something goal ( He scores so much I can’t keep up!).
It didn’t matter that brilliant field marshal Juan Roman Riquelme was of no consequence in this game. Nope, it didn’t matter at all as Palacio was on the field too and he made the difference in the end. You can’t take anything away from Atlas, they played a great game, but in the end their mistakes cost them any hope of stealing points, their fate was sealed 3-0 was the final.
Atletico Nacional of Colombia dispatched Paraguay’s Spotivo Luqueño by 3-0! The goals were scored by Sergio Galvan Rey, Villagra and Valencia.
The Count on Sesame street would have loved this night as it was the night of the number "3". Buahaha! Sorry, got carried away… Uruguay’s Nacional beat Flamengo in Montevideo by… you guessed it, 3-0! Goals scored by Morales (2) and Fornaroli to leave Nacional at the top of group 4.
Flamengo, the world’s most popular club is looking to sign Romario for the next few months and will organize a game vs Barcelona of Spain in the Maracana Stadium. This will be Romario’s last game. Romario now 42 has kept playing because he wanted to pass 1000 goals. He has scored 1002 so far.