Last night Palmeiras played the second leg off the first round of the Libertadores playoffs. Sport wins 1-0 and the game was decided on penalties shoot-out, since Palmeiras had won 1-0 in the first leg. Marcos saved three shoots and Palmeiras is cla sified to the quarter-finals of Libertadores da America.First Leg: Palmeiras 10 SportIn the first leg, played a week ago, Palmeiras made a great game, but the post/bar saved Sport from suffering a bigger defeat: youtube:http://youtube.com/watch?v=jbCu77oue50 Luxemburgo started the game with a 4-3-3 formation, and the three strikers kept Sports wing-backs fully defensive. Ben Zobrist Jersey With Pierre marking Paulo Baier (Sports playmaker), Sport had no way to create chances against Palmeiras which summed with the defensive strategy of the team.With no fear of suffering and harm, Palmeiras went to attack, but was not succe sful, since the wingers were in poor form. In the second half, Luxemburgo took them out, putting Ortigoza (striker) to have more presence in Sports box and Mozart (defensive midfielder) to let Cleiton Xavier attacks with no defensive roles.Ortigoza changed the game, suffering the foul that sent off Sport defender and heading to score in the set-piece of that same foul took by Cleiton Xavier.Palmeiras had some opportunities with Keirrison and Diego Souza, but wasnt lucky enought to score another goal.Second Leg: Sport 1(1)x(3)0 Palmeiras Chicago Cubs Hats (pen.)The second leg was similar to the first one, but Sport was the attacking team, while Palmeiras stand back. The result was the same, but for Sport, and since theres no extra-time in Libertadores, the game was decided on penalties. Marcos star shinned once again, he saves Carlos Zambrano Jersey three shoots and cla sified Palmeiras: youtube:http://youtube.com/watch?v=e0tHOlcLC0Y Different from the first leg, Luxemburgo committed some wrong decisions on this game. He choosed a defensive formation that was prety obviously, and Sports coach Nelsinho Baptista had no difficult to prepare Sport for that formation.Luxemburgo also choose to let Souza to mark Paulo Baier, not Pierre, and Sports playmaker had a easier life than in the first game. Luxemburgo also set Cleiton Xavier with a very defensive role, with took off Palmeiras playmaker from starting po sible counter-attacks, leaving Diego Souza and Jason Heyward Jersey Keirrison alone in the opposite field.Besides that, Palmeiras defended itself prety good. But Palmeiras defense is not very good, and in one of the fails, Paulo Baier lost an amazing opportunity.In second half Luxemburgo made two horrible changes: took of Keirrison for Ortigoza, and Diego Souza for Willians. Its understandable why he did that: Keirrison is not a player that holds up the bal prety well, and he thought that Ortigoza could do that better, and Willians is faster than Diego Souza to try a counter-attack.But the other face of the coin is that Diego Souza is the best player in Palmeiras squad to hold the ball. He is strong and a greater dribbler. Besides, he is the best player to create an opportunity by himself, as he did in the in the group stage. Diego Souza also could score from a set-piece, and he would have been one of the penalty-takers on the shoot-out. Keirrison was doing a poor match, so he could have been taken off. And if Luxemburgo wanted more speed, he could have put Willians in Keirrisons place. Without Diego Souza, Palmeiras was not able to hold one ball in the offensive pitch, leading Sport to much time to create chances.And, in one of Ron Santo Jersey these chances, Sport scored at the 81th minute. And just didnt score more because of great saves of Marcos.Penalty Shoot-OutPalmeiras wasnt in a god shape to face Sport in the shoot-out: Sport was going to take then at home, and two of Palmeiras best takers were Mike Montgomery Jersey out. But Palmeiras has Marcos, who received the nickname of Saint Marcos by his incredible capacity of guarantee Palmeiras wins.Marcos saved three kicks, and even with one mi s, Palmeiras was easily on the quarter-finals. The great performance was compared with the game against Corinthians, a decade ago, when Marcos also saved a penalty and Palmeiras was cla sified to the semi-finals of Libertadores, in the year the team was the champion of the competition. youtube:http://youtube.com/watch?v=ID6zmQDM74I Palmeiras will face Nacional Uruguay in the quarter-finals of Libertadores, playing the first leg at home two weeks from today.