The Copa Libertadores knockouts are underway, with Fortaleza vs Velez Sarsfield providing our first Brazil-Argentina showdown. Having parted ways with Artur Jorge for rookie head coach Davide Ancelotti (son of Brazil boss Carlo), reigning champions Botafogo were always going to find things tough, but there's a real possibility they won't even make the quarter-finals.

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The Brazilian and Conmebol champions lost two of their six group games, and have thus been handed a trickier draw than they would have liked, against Ecuador's Serie A champions LDU Quito.

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