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Comeback kings River win Copa final few will remember for the football

Juan Qunitero's decisive strike in the final moments of extra-time won the Libertadores for River and put an end to the farce of the 2018 final

When the legend becomes fact, print the legend. In the end, the most anticipated Copa Libertadores final of all time gave us a second leg that few will remember, such will be the legacy of this strange and regrettable football fiasco.

Sunday’s re-re-arranged final between River Plate and Boca Juniors in Madrid was a fine spectacle on the Bernabeu pitch; energetic, committed and fully befitting of the occasion that the pre-debacle build-up in Buenos Aires three weeks ago had promised the world.