2007 Copa Libertadores Finals

The 2007 Copa Libertadores Final was a two-legged football match-up to determine the 2007 Copa Libertadores champion. The series was contested between Club Atlético Boca Juniors from Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Grêmio, from Porto Alegre, Brazil. The first leg of the tie was played on June 13th at Boca Juniors' home field, with the second leg played on June 20th at Gremio's.

With this appearance in the last stage Boca Juniors achieved a record-tie 9 times in the finals, winning five of the seven previous occasions. At that moment only C.A. Peñarol of Uruguay have that number of finals. In the last final of Boca Juniors they lost to Once Caldas of Colombia in 2004. In the other hand with this appearance Grêmio, who played three finals before winning two of them, became the second with most finals in the Brazilian clubs, just behind of São Paulo who had six. In 2009 Cruzeiro Esporte Clube would equal the record of four finals appearances of Grêmio.

1 Route to the finals
2 Final summary
- 2.1 First leg
- 2.2 Second leg
3 External links

Route to the finals

Grêmio
São Paulo A 0–1		Round of 16 First leg	Vélez Sársfield H 3–0	Riquelme 9' Palermo 61' Rodríguez 89'
São Paulo H 2–0	Tcheco 17' Diego Souza 74'	Second leg	Vélez Sársfield A 1–3	Bustos (o.g.) 32'
Defensor Sporting A 0–2		Quarterfinals First leg	Libertad H 1–1	Palermo 90'
Defensor Sporting H 2–0 (p. 4–2)	Tcheco 22' Teco 45'	Second leg	Libertad A 2–0	Riquelme 61' Palacio
Santos H 2–0	Tcheco 34' Carlos Eduardo 36'	Semifinals First leg	Cúcuta Deportivo A 1–3	Ledesma 27'
Santos A 1–3	Diego Souza 34'	Second leg	Cúcuta Deportivo H 3–0	Riquelme 44' Palermo 61' Battaglia 90'

Final summary

First leg

2007-06-13
21:45 (UTC-3)

Boca Juniors	3 – 0	Grêmio
Palacio 18' Riquelme 73' Patrício 89' (o.g.)	(Report)

Estadio Alberto J. Armando (La Bombonera), Buenos Aires
Attendance: 50,993
Referee: Jorge Larrionda (Uruguay)

Boca Juniors

Grêmio


BOCA JUNIORS:
GK	12	Mauricio Caranta
DF	4	Hugo Ibarra	13'
DF	6	Daniel Díaz
DF	3	Claudio Morel Rodríguez
DF	21	Clemente Rodríguez
MF	8	Pablo Ledesma
MF	24	Ever Banega	34'	81'
MF	19	Neri Cardozo	64'	67'
MF	10	Juan Román Riquelme	53'
FW	14	Rodrigo Palacio
FW	9	Martín Palermo (c)
Substitutes:
GK	25	Pablo Migliore
MF	5	Sebastián Battaglia		81'
MF	2	Matías Silvestre
MF	11	Bruno Marioni
MF	15	Guillermo Marino
FW	17	Mauro Boselli
MF	23	Jesús Datolo		67'
Manager:
Miguel Russo


GRÊMIO:
GK	1	Sebastián Saja
DF	2	Patrício	15'
DF	4	William
DF	14	Teco
DF	16	Lúcio
MF	15	Sandro Goiano	53', 58'
MF	22	Diego Gavilán
MF	10	Tcheco (c)		80'
MF	7	Diego Souza
FW	11	Carlos Eduardo
FW	9	Tuta		72'
Substitutes:
GK	12	Galatto
MF	8	Lucas		72'
DF	6	Bruno Teles
MF	5	Edmílson
DF	3	Rolando Schiavi
MF	18	Ramón
FW	20	Douglas		80'
Manager:
Mano Menezes

Man of the Match:
Juan Román Riquelme

Assistant referees:
Wálter Rial
Edgardo Acosta
Fourth official:
Líber Prudente

Second leg

2007-06-20
21:45 (UTC-3)

Grêmio	0 – 2	Boca Juniors
	(Report)	Riquelme 69', 81'

Estádio Olímpico Monumental, Porto Alegre
Attendance: 51,851
Referee: Óscar Ruiz (Colombia)

Grêmio

Boca Juniors


GRÊMIO:
GK	1	Sebastián Saja
DF	2	Patrício
DF	4	William
DF	14	Teco		35'
DF	16	Lúcio	88'
MF	7	Diego Souza	50'
MF	8	Lucas	70'
MF	22	Diego Gavilán
MF	10	Tcheco (c)		46'
FW	11	Carlos Eduardo
FW	9	Tuta		70'
Substitutes:
GK	12	Galatto
DF	3	Rolando Schiavi	84'	35'
DF	6	Bruno Teles
MF	18	Ramón
MF	19	Everton		70'
FW	20	Douglas
FW	21	Amoroso		46'
Manager:
Mano Menezes


BOCA JUNIORS:
GK	12	Mauricio Caranta
DF	4	Hugo Ibarra
DF	6	Daniel Díaz
DF	3	Claudio Morel Rodríguez
DF	21	Clemente Rodríguez
MF	8	Pablo Ledesma	74'
MF	24	Ever Banega		82'
MF	19	Neri Cardozo		59'
MF	10	Juan Riquelme
FW	14	Rodrigo Palacio		87'
FW	9	Martín Palermo (c)
Substitutes:
GK	25	Pablo Migliore
DF	2	Matías Silvestre
MF	23	Jesus Datolo
MF	16	Sergio Orteman		82'
MF	5	Sebastián Battaglia		59'
FW	17	Mauro Boselli		87'
FW	11	Bruno Marioni
Manager:
Miguel Russo

Man of the Match:
Juan Román Riquelme

Assistant referees:
Juan Carlos Bedoya
Jovani Zapata
Fourth official:
Albert Duarte

External links

CONMEBOL's official website

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