River and the 5 worst defeats in its history in the Copa Libertadores, after the blow in Brazil

River received at the hands of fluminense biggest win against in its entire history in Libertadores Cup. The millionaire had never experienced the feeling of having scored five goals, but he had already conceded other matches where he went out with a huge difference on the scoreboard.

Without taking into account the historic match played at the Maracanà due to the negative statistics of the Nuñez club, it is necessary to refer at least to more than twenty years ago to recall such an achievement. In recent times, the River had never undergone performances comparable to those of this Tuesday evening.

While having to search over time for the results that make up the first 5 most voluminous defeats suffered by the Slumdog Millionaire, there are several coincidences that are established in each of the matches: Martín Demichelis is present as a playerRamón Díaz was coach in two of them and the red cards, as with Fluminense, were largely responsible for the final results.

Gremio vs River, for the round of 16 of the Copa Libertadores 2002

​A 4-0 result in favor of the Gaúcho team was until Tuesday the biggest victory the Argentine team had received in its history in the most prestigious tournament on the continent.

Precisely, continuing with the coincidences, that match was played at May 2, just 21 years agothe same date that Fluminense became number 1 in this ranking.

In that match that caused River’s elimination in that edition of the continental tournament the DT was Ramón Díaz and Demichelis was one of the starters who suffered defeat. River’s lineup that day consisted of: Ángel David Comizzo; Ariel Garcé, Celso Ayala, Martin Demichelis; Chacho Coudet, Lobo Ledesma, Esteban Cambiasso, Ricardo Ismael Rojas; Andrea D’Alessandro; Ariel Ortega, Alejandro Damian Dominguez.

In that hard fall, River also had to end the game with fewer players due to the expulsion of Ayala after 30 minutes of the first half and of Husaín at 9 pm of the complement, with a 2-0 run already in favor of the Brazilians.

The second historic victory was served by an Argentine club: San Lorenzo, in 1973

The match was played at the Monumental in what was the group stage of that edition, which the Bolivians Wilstermann and Oriente Petrolero had just finished. River were in third position and therefore eliminated in the first phase, in a Libertadores in which only the first of each group progressed to the round. That will be Nuñez’s only defeat in this ranking.

The goals of the match were converted by Luciano Figueroa, with a hat-trick, and Ramón Heredia. On the millionaire side of that party were people like Norberto the betto Alonso and Enrique Wolff.

America de Cali 4-1 River, in 2003

From third place the goal difference is already a total of three. This fact corresponds to Colombia Cali America in 2003when they beat River 4-1 in the coffee lands.

In that game that Demichelis also assisted on the pitch, but with Manuel Pellegrini As a coach, the millionaire said goodbye to the Copa Libertadores in the quarterfinals. The first leg had been in their favor with the result of 2-1 but finished with an aggregate score of 5-3 in favor of the Colombians.

The river formation consisted of: José María Buljubasich; Ariel Hernán Garcé, Horacio Andrés Ameli, Martín Gastón Demichelis, Matías Emanuel Lequi; Eduardo German Coudet, Claudio Daniel Husain, Victor Eduardo Zapata; Andrés Nicolás D’Alessandro; Esteban Oscar Fuertes, Fernando Ezequiel Cavenaghi.

That match is also remembered for the number of expulsions in each side. Two players from América de Cali saw red, while three did at River (Claudio Husaín, Darío Husaín and Ariel Garcé).

The strongest river 4-1, in 2001

The fourth place corresponds to the same result as the previous one but with the difference that the Bolivian The strongest was the one who beat the millionaire in 2001with height as the main factor playing against the Argentine team.

The technician then was Americo Gallego and had stopped an initial eleven formed by: Roberto Oscar Bonano; Gustavo Adrián Lombardi, Javier Marcelo Gandolfi, Ariel Hernán Garcé, Ricardo Ismael Rojas; Eduardo Germán Coudet, Diego Armando Barrado, Cristian Raúl Ledesma, Victor Eduardo Zapata; Nelson Rafael Cuevas, Fernando Ezequiel Cavenaghi.

Cavenaghi was tasked with scoring the provisional 2-1 9 minutes into the first half, after the La Paz team converted the first two goals in just 5 minutes. Likewise, the loss didn’t change River’s performance much in that tournament as he qualified for the round of 16 as leader of his group.

Another 4-1 defeat, but against Once Caldas

As the last historic victory against the current leaders of the local league, even for the same result as the previous ones, it is again at the hands of a Colombian team, this time Once Caldas The Executioner. The café team took advantage of their locality during the group stage of the 1999 edition to beat the team led by Ramón Díaz with a difference of three goals.

River’s lineup that day was with: Germán Burgos; Juan Pablo Sorin, Leonardo Ramos, Hernan Diaz; Marcelo Gallardo, Guillermo Pereyra, Marcelo Escudero, Leonardo Astrada, Sergio Berti, ; Juan Antonio Pizzi and Eduardo Berizzo.

El Negro Astrada scored the temporary 2-1 in another game in which River suffered once again the red cards, this time of Sorin and Ramos.