Copa Libertadores 2017

Lose two games with a combined 6-4 score after making racist remarks and after being up 2-0 in the return match only to lose 2-3 at home, lock the gates closed to trap the visiting team on the field, and to then assault them.

What is it with certain CONMEBOL teams who act up like this? Reminds me of Argentine Juniors vs. Fluminense, Estudiantes vs. Internacional... lose and resort to MMA.

Pathetic Peñarol... pathetic.

 

Perhaps, but had Peñarol won, would they still have locked the doors to assault Felipe Melo?

They were mad they lost - they did the exact same thing to Flamengo in 1999, without provocations.

Sore losers.

 

Yes, poor innocent Palmeiras player, they were just trying to get out of the fight:

ESTO ES INCREÍBLE | En medio de los incidentes, Yerri Mina ¡LE ROBÓ LOS EQUIPOS A UN FOTOGRAFO! https://t.co/ihOK7zIg0Y

— PasesUruguay (@PasesUruguay) April 27, 2017

 

After they were attacked by photographers who used their camera tripods, I speculate looking for the same type of weapon makes sense. I mean, it happened in Uruguay - it wasn't a fair fight to begin with.....

 

Its no surprise this incident happened to Peñarol, a team well known as the Boca Juniors equivalent in Uruguay...

That being said, the Palmeiras fans and players behaved like savages as well. Felipe Melo was throwing haymakers like there was no tomorrow. It take two to tango, and it also takes two to start a brawl, and both teams brawled and embarrassed themselves. Obviously, Penadoy deserves perhaps a bigger chunk of the blame, but Palmeiras were not exactly innocent choir boys there and Melo should be given a long ban

 

Please, don't play the innocent lamb, brazilian clubs are experts in provocation too. And not only with uruguayan or argentine clubs... America-Sao Caetano, Inter-Chivas, Huachipato-Gremio, The Strongest-Sao Paulo and the list goes on. You say others are sore losers, brazilians are sore winners. Many brazilian players like Felipe Melo LOVE to taunt opponents before and during matches.

The only difference is that when the "brigas" happen in Brazil the police intervenes inmediately (to beat up only the foreigners, of course, it's the most brutal and xenophobic police in latin america), so the incidents are cut short.

 

Had everything that occurred last night happened with River Plate rather than Palmeiras, and had Alario, Driussi, or Fernandez been exactly in the same position as Felipe Melo - and then had the given River Plate player started swinging as several Peñarol swarmed him, would you have blamed him?

Palmeiras was the visiting squad; they were on hostile ground, and Felipe Melo was spoken to with racist terms by Peñarol players last night and in Brazil. He was already upset, and many local players went after him.

Additionally, at the end of the first match in Brazil, members of Peñarol's delegation - not players, but STAFF - warned Palmeiras' people that they were going to do something in Uruguay. Or do you think Palmeiras wanted to spend extra money for no reason by bringing oh, a mere and insignificant twenty bodyguards to Montevideo?

And why were the gates to the tunnels/locker room locked?

Melo should not be given a long ban - not unless Peñarol is punished with equal strictness and its racist players fined.

As for Peñarol being Uruguay's Boca Juniors - well, no comment.

 

You didn't address my point.

If local reporters are going to use tripods as weapons, players will do the same.

EDIT: América-São Caetano? You must believe Cuauhtémoc Blanco was a barefoot priest.

 

Funny how pepino ignores that. Locking a visiting team on the field after it has defeated the local team and as the local team wants to start a fight. Perhaps he thinks that's simply a demonstration of sportsmanship.

 

Stop posting facts which contradict what others want to believe! Peñarol did nothing of the sort, and locking the gates on visiting teams is simply charrua-style sportsmanship.

 

"... brazuca de m/erda, atajaste nuestros pelotazos y por eso perdemos, brasileño malparido!...."

Sportsmanship, Manya style.

 

They should suspend both Palmeiras and Peñarol from the competition and fine them.

 

did you see how the fans acted in the stands? if you want them to understand that that behavior is not ok then you have to have harsh punishments. A simple "you are not allowed to be in the stands on away (or home) games" is not enough. If CONMEBOL had balls they would suspend them both immediately, but we both think they wouldn't do that, just look at what they did with that Argentinian team that showed up about an hour after the game was supposed to begin and nothing happens to them. CONMEBOL corruption is so bad they are almost as bad as FIFA.