Boca told: Step up to the Plate
BOCA JUNIORS will take on River Plate in the Copa Libertadores final second-leg tonight after a late bid to have the game postponed was rejected.
The match was switched to the Bernabeu in Madrid after the original game was called off when River fans attacked the Boca team bus.
Boca want River Plate disqualified from the competition and asked for the match to be put back while the Court of Arbitration for Sport considered its decision.
But that was rejected and now the game will kick off as scheduled at 7.45pm.
Whoever comes out on top at the Bernabeu, Boca boss Guillermo Barros Schelotto sees no winners.
He said: “Instead of talking about the fact that the two best teams in the Libertadores are Argentines, we are talking about violence. We lost again.”
The first leg of the South American equivalent of the Champions League final ended in a 2-2 draw at Boca’s La Bombonera home last month.