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On Friday, Racing drew Newell’s Old Boys 1-1 in former international defender Diego Simeone’s last game as Racing coach.

Boca, Gimnasia La Plata, River, Banfield and Velez will play in the 2007 Copa Libertadores. The same teams plus Lanus and San Lorenzo will strive to wrest the Sudamericana from defending champion Boca.

Instituto and Tiro Federal were relegated to second division.

Argentinos Juniors and Olimpo will play with two teams from second division, and the two winners of the home-and-away series will play in the first division next season.

Lanus drew 0-0 Saturday with Velez Sarsfield. In other games Saturday, Gimnasia La Plata beat Newell’s 3-2 to move into third place, p***ing River Plate, which fell to fourth with a 2-0 loss to Racing.

Elsewhere Sunday, it was: Banfield 3, Argentinos Juniors 1; Arsenal 1, Instituto 1; Tiro Federal 1, Quilmes 1; Olimpo 1, Gimnasia Jujuy 0.

Later Sunday, Estudiantes hosted Rosario Central and Colon visited San Lorenzo.

With striker Sergio Aguero suspended, Independiente set up two defensive lines and employed only one attacker. However, it was able to create and several runs down the flanks, forcing Argentine national team keeper Roberto Abbondancieri into acrobatic saves on shots by Esteban Bujan and Gaston Machin.

Rodrigo Palacio and Martin Palermo scored one goal apiece and traded ***ists for Boca. Palacio put the Buenos Aires side ahead in the 38th with a shot from outside the penalty area after a long p*** from Palermo, who added the insurance in the 47th with a header off a cross by Palacio.

In the oldest derby in Argentine soccer, Racing beat crosstown rival River Plate, which played with a mostly reserve team to rest its regulars for the first leg of Copa Libertadores quarter-finals against Paraguay’s Libertad on Thursday.

Maximiliano Moralez headed in a cross from Juan Manuel Torres in the 38th, and Claudio Fileppi made it 2-0 in injury time.

River midfielder Lucas Pusineri was red-carded in the 88th.

Defending champion Sao Paulo, Velez Sarsfield and Internacional advanced to the quarterfinals of the Copa Libertadores on Wednesday.Goalkeeper Rogerio Ceni converted an 86th-minute penalty kick for Sao Paulo to beat Brazilian rival Palmeiras 2-1, and 3-2 on aggregate at its Morumbi stadium.

Velez took a 4-2 lead into the all-Argentine clash with Newell’s Old Boys, almost squandered it in the second half, but escaped trouble with a disputed penalty goal and drew 2-2 to win 6-4 overall.

Brazil’s Internacional held Nacional to 0-0 in Porto Alegre and advanced 2-1 on aggregate, eliminating the former three-time Copa champ from Uruguay.

In Sao Paulo, the home side knocked out Palmeiras in the round of 16 of the Latin American championship for the second year in a row. Palmeiras hasn’t won at Morumbi in seven matches since 1992.

Ceni netted the late game-winner from the spot after World Cup defender Junior was brought down inside the area. It was Ceni’s 61st career goal — and second in four days.

Aloisio, Sao Paulo’s leading scorer in this year’s tournament with five goals, scored from a header in the 13th minute, then striker Washington equalized for Palmeiras with a header in the 57th, deflecting a free kick by midfielder Correa.

Ceni’s goal added to a dramatic finish with a flurry of red cards.

Sao Paulo striker Leandro was sent off in the 67th for a hard foul on Palmeiras veteran striker Edmundo, and Palmeiras defender Paulo Baier was ejected in the 90th after an altercation with Ceni. Two other Palmeiras players, Marcinho Guerreiro and Thiago Gomes, were red-carded after the match for complaining with Brazilian referee Wilson de Souza Mendonca.

Sao Paulo will next face either Argentina’s Estudiantes or Brazil’s Goias, which play on Thursday. Estudiantes won the first leg 2-0 in Argentina.

Ignacio Scocco’s opening goal in the 52nd minute left Newell’s trailing Velez Sarsfield by only a goal in Buenos Aires, but the air in Newell’s’ bid deflated when Leandro Somoza equalized with a dubious penalty in the 76th.

Newell’s began to unravel when Claudio Husain was sent off in the 62nd for a second yellow card.

Somoza’s penalty was given when referee Daniel Gimenez decided Newell’s defender German Re fouled Lucas Castroman. But the TV replay showed Re offered a fair tackle, and outside the box.

Given the formidable challenge of scoring three goals to level on aggregate, Newell’s could score only one when Hugo Calace pounced on a rebound in the 84th.

Mauro Ocampo earned Velez the draw with an injury-time goal, and the 1994 Copa champ will play Mexico’s Chivas Guadalajara in the quarters.

Internacional beat Nacional 2-1 last week in Uruguay, and was happy to survive a scoreless draw with Nacional on Wednesday.

Nacional scored off a header by midfielder Marco Vanzini in the fourth minute, but the goal was disallowed because of offsides.

The draw kept alive Internacional’s 30-match unbeaten streak at Beira-Rio stadium since August.

Internacional will face Ecuador’s Liga de Quito, which eliminated Colombia’s Atletico Nacional on Tuesday 5-0 on aggregate score.