Damn, this video is bringing back a lot of flashbacks. Back in the 80s, long before we had the luxury of selecting which games to watch at our convenience, the old SIN Network (Spanish International Network, which turned into Univision) use to show lots of South American games including the Libertadores. The '87 final had an amazing finish. It went to a third match playoff and, iirc, the rules at the time meant that if the playoff ended level after extra time America de Cali would have won the Copa based on the aggregate score from the first two matches. (They had a strange format in play back then. Probably made sense at the time but looks ridiculous in hindsight) That playoff, played in Santiago, was 0-0 in the dying seconds of extra-time when...
América de Cali would have won the title under current rules. And in 1968, Palmeiras would have taken the title.
Irrelevant. If today's rules were in place the teams would have approached both legs of the final differently.
No, it's not. Teams approached every game with a single objective: winning. That a 3rd, "tiebreaker" match had to be played was ultimately deemed a bad rule and that's why CONMEBOL no longer has that.
America approached the second game trying to avoid defeat. A draw would have sufficed. I agree it was a bad rule but that doesn't diminish the last second heroics of Penarol '87.