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Match Report from the official website can be found here.
Speaking after the game Steve Coppell said
"From my point of view, I was quite pleased with my team's performance.
"We haven't played for eight weeks and we've only been training for about ten days in total. Even less for the whole group, because some of my international players had a little bit longer off.
"And for us to play against such a good side as River Plate, and for us to be so strong - certainly in the physical sense as the game developed - I was looking for these things and was quite pleased with what I saw.
"In the first half, with great respect to River Plate, they played some great football and we found it very difficult to get close to them.
"But after half time we got ourselves organised a bit better, we played with a higher tempo and it was more of a game in the second half."