{"id":166768,"date":"2025-11-30T00:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T00:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/166768\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T00:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T00:12:07","slug":"copa-libertadores-final-flamengo-beat-palmeiras-to-win-fourth-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/166768\/","title":{"rendered":"Copa Libertadores final: Flamengo beat Palmeiras to win fourth title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Flamengo became the first Brazilian team to lift the Copa Libertadores four times with victory over rivals Palmeiras.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former Real Madrid, Man City and Juventus defender Danilo rose highest from a Giorgian de Arrascaeta corner to head into the bottom corner in the 67th minute as Filipe Luis&#8217; side emerged victorious.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Victor Roque missed a golden opportunity to equalise for Palmeiras with two minutes of normal time remaining but blazed his shot over the bar from close range.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Everton had a chance to seal the victory in stoppage time but his low driven free-kick was pushed on to the post by Palmeiras goalkeeper Carlos Miguel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In five of the past seven seasons, either Palmeiras or Flamengo has claimed the Libertadores.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Luis became the ninth man to win the competition both as a player and as a coach, having claimed the trophy twice with Flamengo in 2019 and 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a first half which produced no shots on target, Chilean midfielder Erick Pulgar was fortunate to avoid a straight red card in the 30th minute when he raked his studs down the leg of Bruno Fuchs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The sides met in the 2021 final which was won 2-1 by Palmeiras.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Flamengo became the first Brazilian team to lift the Copa Libertadores four times with victory over rivals Palmeiras.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-166768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}