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It was already known that the Copa America will be held in the USA in 2024. Conmable, the South American football governing body, has announced which cities in America will be played this time.

Conmable has announced the names of 14 cities. Those cities are Las Vegas, Arlington, Charlotte, Kansas City (Kansas), Orlando, Kansas City (Missouri), Miami, Santa Clara, Atlanta, East Rutherford, Houston, Austin, Inglewood (California) and Glendale

Last time champions Argentina will be seen in the opening match of the 2024 Copa America tournament. Argentina will play the first match at Atlanta's Mercedes-Benz Stadium. The 2024 Copa America final will be held at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami, Florida

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This year's Copa America will be with 16 countries. 10 South American football playing countries. The remaining 6 countries are invited. There will be a total of 32 matches in the competition. The whole competition will end in 25 days. In the group format, 16 teams have been divided into four groups. 2 teams from each group will go to the quarter finals. From there semi finals and finals.


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I don't know what ideas with Copa America including participants teams from other region are invited, are there less countries participants of CONMEBOL zone? difference with Asian, African and EUROPE never invited the other participants national region and looks difference later if the invited teams participants will be the winner although less possibility.

Based on group drawing potential the final stage between Argentina vs Brazil, both national candidate teams to be the winner have in far way group with Argentina in Group A and Brazil in Group D, both teams if finish on first or second place standings group stage not matter to face in the final depend success won from 16 round until semifinal stage. Last edition of Copa America Lionel Messi success made his country Argentina become the winner after in the final beat Brazil 1-0.

For this edition I think Brazil more favorite to be the winner with completed squad than Argentina, based on my opinion only  ;D

There is still a lot of time for this tournament to start, something like more than 5 months so I highly doubt that there is much to discuss, this is because in addition to there still being a lot of time for the tournament to start, in my opinion Argentina or Brazil Uruguay will be the winners of this tournament . They are the only teams that have won the most in this tournament and currently looking at the squad of each team I would say only Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay have strong squads. I don't see them being able to win this competition. Now one thing I see that in my opinion will not be so good for this competition, is that this competition will take place in June to July, so far I don't see any problem, but the problem starts when they put it on the same date as the euro. 2024

euro 2024 will take place in June to July, and because it is European football in which all the best European players will be playing, so the attention of news channels will be focused on euro 2024, many countries people prefer to follow European football, that's why that in my opinion the euro will be the competition that will have the most importance while the Copa América will not have much attention, I wonder if the Copa América organizers will be able to make a profit from this event since most people will travel to watch it the euro, TV channels will prefer to pay royalties to broadcast the euro

The results of the draw, the most awaited match is the Argentina vs Chile match. Why not, Argentina has the opportunity to avenge their defeat against Chile in the 2015 and 2016 Copa America finals. In fact, as a result of losing twice to Chile, Messi once announced his retirement from the national team, although Messi later reversed his decision.

For Argentina, the Copa this time clearly means a lot to them because their status as defending champions is of course Argentina's ambition to defend their title. Moreover, the squad that Argentina has is very good.

Both teams have good quality players.Last time champions Argentina created a new history by defeating Brazil in the final.This time the two teams will face tough opponents in their respective groups.
I want both teams to reach the final as champions of their group and they will meet in the final.
what do you say ;D

Eh!... the America's Cup includes the American continent, right?  ;)

Now it is true that the first editions only included the teams from South America, where the real soccer was, right? :) Well, actually, being organized by CONMEBOL, which corresponds to South America, is the reason, perhaps they exaggerated with the name.

Anyway, now each edition looks more like a true America's Cup, including more countries, so it is the complete opposite of what you mention, little information or even remembering primary school.

Well, what is worth saying, in 2016 it turned 100 years old, being the event organized for the oldest soccer teams.

The favorites! : Brazil and Argentina are always there, although it is true that Argentina is the last winner, They hadn't won it since 1993, which tells you how difficult it is to win an American Cup, even having Messi, unlike Brazil who since that same date has won it five times.

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1 have been a big fan of Copa America for years now and I was beginning to wonder why nobody's talking about it, I wanted to create a topic about it, but I searched and found this.

The Copa America kicks off in about 17 days from now and I'm pretty excited about it. I don't like the idea of adding countries from different regions but I get why they do it. They need the money and the awareness. My only worry is what if a country from a different region wins it. I like how all the invited countries are from North America, that way the name Copa America still holds.

One thing I'll miss in this Copa is Neymar. I like watching him when he's serious and means business, but it's sad that he's injured and won't be available. I'd also like to see if Messi can lead his Argentine team to back-to-back Copa America wins. The legend's career seems to get better as he's ageing. The real definition of ageing is like a fine win.
Brazil is in good shape too with Vinicius showing that he can lead a team, but can he lead Brazil? We'll see.

The difference between Brazil and Argentina is that Argentina is more balanced. The defence, midfield and Attack of Argentina are balanced, so even if they don't have as many stars as Brazil, they're still one of the best national teams in the world which makes the favourites for this tournament too.
Let's patiently wait for the 21st, but I think I'll put my money on Argentina.

I'm going to bet on Argentina too, but first I want to watch at least the first round of games and see how the teams perform. Brazil won't be the winning team in this edition of the Copa America, I actually think the Brazilian team is very bad, one of the worst in recent times, and without Neymar... it's really complicated.

And I really liked the fact that North American teams participated, after all, America is three continents.

We all know Argentina as defending champion from this tournament and their status also as world cup champion and i haven't checked the odds yet but i will assume they would be the first favourite for the current tournament and i think this year could be very special for Messi because most likely Copa America this year would be his last big tournament with Argentina because with his current age it's almost be impossible to playing at next Copa America and it could be very fantastic before retired Messi and Argentina can able to defend their title

In Group A Argentina will joining with Peru, Chile and Canada and their first match on group stage will be helded at June 21 against Canada which on the paper Argentina should be able to overcomes Canada without any problem because from squad quality obviously Argentina is much better than Canada and in Group A i think the strongest opponent for Argentina is Chile this because from their previous meeting in this tournament Chile is hard to beated by Argentina and about Argentina chances on group stages i think they can advances to the next round without any problem even possibly Argentina will finish at the first place of Group Table

Football fans in the US get to watch top quality players live for once ;)

The winner is likely to be Brazil or Argentina, it’s not that often an underdog wins the Copa America. Uruguay are the best bet if you don’t want to go for the two favourites. They’re a good team with some top class players.

They have already hosted a World Cup, in 1994... Since then, it seems to me that there has been an effort to popularize football there... Before that, decades ago they tried with Pelé in NY Cosmos... and more recently with Romario, Beckham, Kaká, Adriano "Emperor"... and now Messi... But even with these attempts, I still believe that this sport has not become completely popular in the USA.

All old and way past their best when they went to the US, otherwise why go there.

It was a bit of a lighthearted joke my friend.

Argentina would most likely be the team to keep an eye on although there is the samba boys (Brazil) with the likes of vinicius Jr and all the other Brazilian youngster's that are crazy hot, they too will be red hot in trying to win the title although am still skeptical about the rating of the balloon Dior award this year and how and who it will be given to because for the first time the likes of Ronaldo and Messi would be out of the picture and the likes of new faces would probably claim the award.

Brazil should be the Champions this time but one problem I have got with Brazil in the recent past Copa América football competitions is that they got eliminated when there were high expectations on them to move to the next stage of the competition, I still believe that most likely that Argentina is still capable of seeing the trophy on back to back note, and to me, this time Uruguay is a bit far from becoming the trophy winner, I even see Chile to be next online after Argentina and Brazil.

they were just looking for money to supplement their retirement, as well as the opportunity to live in America, make contacts, open businesses, go to Disneyland and... football was left as a detail...

I dont understand the joke before, now I understand  ;D

Maybe not at the level of the previous squads, but this is no bad squad list and they are strong challengers for the trophy.

This is the new generation of players and they don't have very good boots to fill cause the previous team did not win a lot of trophies. Brazil have a solid midfield, I'll love to see how the coach rotates them around. Up front there are more obvious starters but still youngsters with a claim to some minutes.

My favorites for the trophy is Argentina. Will be a amazing way for Messi to bow out from international football.

For real, hopefully they won't offend European and Latino fans screaming soccer instead of football, this is definitely the best thing, if they're able to make the most out of this opportunity, we might see the US become a fan of the sports forever expanding the influence of this already big sport. For me though, I feel like it's going to be an Argentinian cup this time, that's my belief in this one, the team is solid with Messi in the forward, I think that means something.

The big event is just around the corner and we will also have action at the Euros, which will be unbeatable. Football will be respected everywhere. This makes me think that some countries, like Brazil, which are highly anticipated, can recover from the bad times they are going through. For me, personally, it is a good time to see if my country is ready for an event like this. So far, it has not been doing too badly, but it is not very outstanding either. Only in the big championships is where the true champions come out. On the other hand, I like Colombia. I see them very reinforced and I think they will be a team that can compete even with Argentina with a Messi at full speed.

Get space left almost two weeks after Euro 2024 first match on next week and Copa America 2024 first match start on 21 June 2023 or one weeks later after first match of Euro 2024. Actually is difference level interested when comparing between Euro 2024 and Copa America 2024 because most of fans will priority for watching Euro 2024.
but difference hours of kick off I think make its interested because fans can watching Euro 2024 and Copa America by only in Television and waiting every match for Copa America 2024 will full of fans in stadium or only big matches play by Argentina and Brazil.
In Copa America Brazil become my favorite teams, have bad issues with Lucas Paquetá will be in Brazil squad or not after FA investigating with his problem with potential long term suspended.

When I look at the composition of the group of Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay, I see that these three teams passed to another stage very easily, we just need to see that in the case of group A:

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Peru and Chile can sometimes play well, but they won't cause much danger for Argentina, who in the last 4 games they played against Peru won 3 and drew 1, and in the last 3 games Argentina played against Peru, Argentina have won all of their last 3 consecutive games with a record of not having conceded a goal in the last 4 goals against Peru. Seeing this good track record that Argentina has against Peru, I predict Argentina will win when they play against Peru.

There hasn't been a game involving Argentina against Canada since 2015 until today, it seems like they haven't played against each other in the last 10 years. But I also predict Argentina's victory because Canada did poorly in games against teams like Jamaica and Uruguay, but Canada cannot be underestimated. I also predict a victory for Argentina when they play against Chile, but Chile is a team that in the last 3 games has done well against Argentina. Since in the last 3 games in which Argentina played against Chile, they won in just 1 game and drew in 2 games, I predict a difficult game for Argentina when they play against Chile

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source: https://livescores.biz/h2h/argentina-cf-vs-chile-cf

The summer promises to be a very entertaining one for football lovers across the globe because two of the biggest continental football competitions are going to take place. The Copa America and the Euros Championships are going to take place this summer and just like me, football enthusiasts can't wait for the kickoff of those two very important tournaments. There's no doubt to the fact that one of them will attract more attentions that the other because of it's popularity among global football fans. The UEFA Euros will definitely have more attention than the Copa America but when we get to the final stages of both competitions, I think the interests of football fans in both competitions will be more increased.
For Brazil, there's no doubt to the fact that they're unarguably the favorites to win the Copa America while in the UEFA Euros, we have many top teams that are considered as the favorites. Definitely, there'll be surprise results in both competitions and I can't wait to see how things will pan out.

I have great hopes for Brazil to achieve a good result in this championship this year.

After a lot of work by former coach Tite (who didn't win a World Cup), Brazil is now trying to better align itself on the field to return as a more consolidated team. Unfortunately, coach Fernando Diniz's temporary experience didn't work out very well, but I believe that the CBF got it right when hiring Dorival Júnior.

The Copa América will be the coach's first official competition for Brazil, which is currently in 6th place in the South American Qualifiers for the next World Cup tournament.

Brazil was runner-up in the last one, but now I hope they come first. We will face Colombia, Costa Rica and Paraguay.... I think it will be easy.

Different from you, I have hopes for Uruguay, this country has also won 15 Copa America titles and reached 21 finals, this is an extraordinary statistic for Uruguay, especially now that Uruguay also has classy players such as Federico Valverde and also Darwin Nunez who can open up opportunities The advantage for Uruguay is that this national team is known for its good discipline Uruguay will be a strong candidate in the Copa America this time.

Moreover, they have Marcelo Bielsa who has a wealth of experience and this is an important factor for Uruguay, meanwhile the group phase is also very useful for Uruguay to be able to qualify for the next phase.

You’re right, I’m dying to see how Brazil is playing right now, do they come out with that tenacity that they always do? Going for goals and suffocating their opponent from the first minutes? This is something that intrigues me, I would say that the easiest opponent is Costa Rica, but they have a certain rivalry with Colombia because Colombia beat Brazil in Brazil in the qualifiers, and I’m sure that Brazil will get that thorn out of its side in the Copa America and in the qualifiers too, Paraguayan football is not going through a very good streak either, however, when the Paraguayans start to play well, wow it’s difficult to beat them, they are very tough and they don’t give up.

And one of the things I want to see the most is if they manage to connect, Rodry with Ney and with Vinicius, wow if they achieve that, they are ready.

Seems quite late to join the discussion.

Nunez once again perform really outstanding against Mexico, when he was play for Liverpool, he didn't able to perform like that, instead his performance mostly terrible. But, even though he already doing great for Uruguay, they still not able to beat Brazil and Argentina. Not forget with Colombia, they also one of good contender too.

Nunez is quite different when he was playing for Uruguay National Team because Nunez performance with his country is very fantastic even when the match against Mexico few days ago Nunez was made a hattrick which is very rarely done by Nunez when playing with Liverpool and total Nunez can scores 8 goals in the last 5 matches with Uruguay so that's why Marcelo Bielsa still includes Nunez in Uruguay's squad for Copa America because although Nunez performance is decline with Liverpool but wity Uruguay Nunez is still consistent

Talking about Uruguay i know they are not the first favourite in this tournament because people are more likely to considers Argentina and Brazil as the strongest candidates for the champion but i think Uruguay can being an dark horses team which could potentially put strong teams in trouble and for the current tournament Uruguay will into group C with United States, Bolivia and Panama and if we see the strength between Uruguay opponents from this group i think Uruguay chances to advances to the next round is very wide open

Well Uruguay is one of the big boys in the south American league and I don't know that they even have such impressive record in the Copa America title. But even with the players you mentioned they have now, you still can't compare them to the like of their players of old which are the like of Diego folan and Luis Suarez and also the other teams like Brazil and Argentina who have lots of talents are probably more favorite to win this year Copa America title.

Endrick is really a promising kid.

He has always give a contribution in friendly match against England, Spain and Mexico even though he's just a 17 years old boy. With the arrival of new manager i.e. Dorival Junior, Brazil perform better than before.

If one team is on relying to both Valverde and Nunez, it's nothing different with Norway who have Odegaard and Haaland, but they can't bring their team to rank up.

Argentina is currently the defending champion thanks to victory in the final of the previous competition against Brazil, with this victory, Argentina can now equal the most Copa America titles previously held by Uruguay.
Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil are the strongest and always dominate every Copa America event and they are troublesome team for several other participating countries because when they meet them they are guaranteed to be eliminated more quickly.
But on the other hand, Argentina is the team that has reached the final most often because they have won 15 championship titles and have also been runners-up 14 times, it is clear that in every Copa America event they are always the favorites and really at the top.

For the 2024 Copa America, I think Argentina and Brazil will be possible candidates who can compete very strongly, if they don't meet earlier, maybe both of them will be team that can compete until the final.
For group D Brazil, it is clear that they are the dominant team, much stronger than the others and of course Brazil is the favorite as the team that will occupy the top position in group D and qualify for the next round.

Right, Brazil and Argentina have opportunity will face each other in the final match because Argentina in Group A and Brazil in Group D if both of them success winning since phase group until semifinal round have ideal final Argentina vs Brazil. Argentina become host for Copa America 2024 and they have bigger chance for winning back to back of Copa America after winning last edition moment, Brazil with youth players dominance in their squad won't loss great opportunity because last edition in the final defeated by Argentina and they want become the winner in front of Argentina fans for this time.

In Copa America 2024, my favorite national teams is Brazil because they have many top youth players and recently want to see Brazil wonder kinds in this time Endrick with his potential could be difference player by scoring many goals? another side Brazil still have Rodrygo and Vinicius Jr as best players in UEFA Champion League and has domination for winning Ballon d'Or in this year.

If Brazil will beat Argentina, they need to really work hard for it because just wanting it will not be enough. There is a certain level of confidence that Argentina currently play with, and with them still have Lionel Messi in their team, the odds still favor them. Argentina played against Ecuador and were only able to win by a goal, and from the game I noticed that the Argentine's still maintain the same level of aggressiveness that have brought them to this level.

Is Argentina the host? Is it no longer the United States?

Endrick still has a lot to show, he has to make an effort and be consistent, otherwise he will be like Alexandre Pato, an eternal promise... Vinicius Junior is already a reality.... Brazil and Argentina are the biggest favorites, not because they have the best teams, but because the opponents are very bad..

Well for now my favorite players in that Brazil squad would be definitely vinicius and Rodrigo because I mean these two players are  super fast and they have all the experience and boldness to play at this kind of stage and even make huge impact at that. I would also class Brazil as my favorite team because when you look at their squad it's actually containing all the mindset of winning in it and Messi which is supposed to be the core threat is currently getting it hot with age factor so no much would be coming from him.

Copa America will be in the United States, it starts on the 20th of this month, and runs until July 14th, nothing has changed
It's the perfect “test” for the United States for the 2026 World Cup

Here's the official website to check all info about: https://copaamerica.com/en

Question to all you Copa followers, is there interest to join a Copa America pool on this forum? It seems to be getting very little attention despite for me personally being a pretty good tournament to watch -- and one of the few tournaments our friends in the Americas should feel personally involved in.

What do you say? Simple 1x2 prediction pool run on Superbru (like the ones we have for English Prem League, Serie A, La Liga, UCL, World Cup, AFCON). A nominal 0.5mbtc ($35) fee each?

I see on this entire page usernames I don't recognise from these pools. Want to get in on some good fun with a chance to win some satoshi from each other? As in, you know, make this gambling subforum light up with some fun gambling? darxiaomi, know anyone who would play other than our usual pool suspects?

Well, it's safe to say Darwin Nunez was able to get those three goals because he's about the best striker Uruguay have got on their team for now since the time of Suarez when he was in his prime. Also, the Uruguayan has gotten a hat trick for Liverpool, even though it wasn't in a Premier league game, but rather a club friendlies against RB Leipzig.
It's true that he found his rhythm at the game because for sometime, he has been out of it, underperforming at the club and being a shadow of himself. This is the first win for them and it's enough to say it was a good way to make a statement because their coach was very proud and was heard saying the Mexican side didn't see this coming, else they would have prepared better against it.

Good suggestion, it would be really cool and I'm interested in participating.... This kind of thing is always good and brings even more engagement here to our games tab... And winning some satoshis, it couldn't be better!

In my opinion, in the Brazilian team, the player who will draw the most attention will be Endrick, who could take Rodrygo's place, who when playing for the national team has had a lot of difficulties scoring goals constantly, when he scores a goal in a game involving the national team, In the next game he didn't score a goal, even at Real Madrid he sat on the bench because he is not a player who is going through a great moment. while Endrick, who has been sitting on the bench, but when he enters the field he scores a goal, has been a very consistent player in the national team, which in my opinion makes more sense for the Brazil coach to choose to play with Endrick and Vinicius and Gabriel Martinelli in attack as starting players, then use the other attackers as players who will be on the bench

Last season's Copa América ended in a fierce contest, with Argentina beating Brazil to eventually win the title and the achievement was a huge achievement for Argentina as Argentina beat Brazil at home last season. The competition may still be some time away but the Copa America excitement is already spreading. On social media, Argentina fans are posting various posts about their respective teams, while Brazil fans are highlighting their team's strengths and sharing their optimism about their team on social media. This season, like other seasons, the Copa America title between Argentina and Brazil is not possible for any of the teams because I don't see much hope for the other teams.  Best wishes to my favorite team Brazil, Brazil football team.

With the economic dominance of USA, world power and their aura in the universal scene, when will they begin to get football right? They have all it takes to get it right but it doesn't work even in their leagues. What's the problem? They are the host but don't be surprised to see them exit the group stage.

Sometimes the rush is not to allow someone else create the thread you have already conceived to do. As at when the thread was created, it didn't make much sense but now it is making sense.

Brazil and Argentina are still the two most favorite teams, Argentina is the defending champion. It makes sense to place them as the favorite team, because the squad depth they have is said to be better than the other contestants. Apart from that, I think Uruguay is also worth considering, because they now have a golden generation in their squad. America will act as hosts, it might be a little advantageous for them to go further. We hope that Brazil will face Argentina in the final, that would be ideal. Apart from that, it is possible that there will be a surprise, the favorite team could be eliminated early. It's a shame that Neymar couldn't continue his adventure in this edition of the Copa Amreka due to a prolonged injury, even though he made a big contribution in the previous qualifying stages.

Ey Buwa , well i think is dificult to catch more people, because in example from the local board of spanish speakings we are very low and we already play the pools the one who are into gambling, like famososmuertos, maybe seoincorporation can join, but i think he is not into sports only conventional gambling.

Maybe can join us this guy, who is brazilian and i talk with him in some of the Copa Libertadores thread. (only quoting to let him know).



Maybe you rdluffy can bring more brazilian people if we do a prediction pool of the american cup?

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About your main question i think yes, we need to keep it simple in a tournament like this, making a superbru pool. I have some good memories from last one....... i become champion in the last american cup pool like Argentina  ;)

Argentina is quite outstanding in this their group but their major opponent team capable of stopping them would be a game between Argentina Vs Chile, but this time it's going to be a different ball game, because Argentina is much more in form than Chile, but both teams will qualify from their group, and from my prediction, Argentina would top the group while Chile will finish in the second spot, so I don't see any of these countries capable of stopping the Argentine team.

Rather than Argentina, I think Brazil is the most favorite even though Neymar is no longer the one they can rely on due to his physical condition which continues to decline.

In addition to Uruguay, Chile also makes sense to be included in the favorite teams for the 2024 Copa America. I think the chances are that America will not go further even though they are acting as hosts for the 2024 Copa America.
Chile in the Copa America tournament is a team that needs special attention because in 2016 they defeated Argentina in the final.
We cannot deny that Chile is currently not as strong as it used to be.

Thanks for the tag darxaomi, but as you mentioned, I'm more into traditional gambling (Slots, Dice, Poker...) than sports. I'm not sure about what to expect from this Copa America, i would say the strong teams will be Brazil and Argentina, but i haven't followed at all the Soccer in the past years.

If i have to give a prediction by groups i would say:

Group A: Argentina
Group B: Mexico
Group C: USA
Group D: Brasil

And the team that I'm sure they will lose each game is Costa Rica.

Hey Dar,

Ty for that notification, I also signed up to Euro Pool, because of a comment I read in another thread, I didn't know it was in Game & Rounds.( other goodfella)

In Game & Rounds I only go if I get notifications, otherwise I don't look at other promotions that I don't know about.

Let's go Mr Buwa... If we're less than planned or estimated we can put in 1mBTC, whatever... I'm in.

... Champion Curacao... they're in the Cup, right!? ;)

Brazil and Argentina are favorites in almost every edition to win the title, but don't forget that Uruguay also deserves a chance in this edition. Other national teams seem less reliable than the 3 above, but sometimes Chile is also good.

Interestingly, Messi and several other older Argentina players will still take part in this year's edition. They're not done yet and are still the favorites, but I'm not so sure I see Argentina retaining their title. Brazil is definitely ahead of Argentina in my opinion, but I think both deserve to be in the final.

Let's try anyway, get the new guys, really cool to get LatAm and mix it up a bit, and then we poke a few people from the old pools to join. Quick and dirty, 0.5 mbtc fee, I think that's easy peasy. I'll put up a new thread tomorrow, 10 days to Copa, should be enough time.

Hell, I might even throw in a small prize just for old times' sake.

We have, tentative positives from:
criptoevangelista
famososMuertos
darxiaomi

Hoping on rdluffy to pull some brasilians in here -- if we get 10, it'll be great!

To me, Uruguay has a better chance of winning the Copa America than Brazil. Brazil has not been impressive. They're not as consistent as they need to be. Uruguay on the other hand may not be very consistent but they know how to get points from other American teams and they play as a team more than Brazil.
I believe Argentina will retain the trophy. They're the most in-form team in the continent and they have a balanced square, to top that up, they have the Leonel Messi factor.

Messi makes things easier for the team. As long as they're ready to defend well and don't concede unnecessarily, they stand a chance. They also need to be ready to score the chances Messi creates because he's going to create a lot of chances. I'd like Messi to finish up his career with another international trophy.

This is international duty for the players and they're definitely on another spirit. They will come in with their best and winning becomes priority from day one. The Copa America is by the corner and we know how ringing its coming. Brazil and Argentina are the favorites to win because they've in possession the top players and winning matches doesn't seem to be a problem.

Well there is a program like MagistTv that can be obtained for free, for those who want to see it they can search for it and watch it from their TV and from their phone, there are many channels that I am sure will broadcast it, for those users who have their OS on Android, google it, you can install it, the truth is it is worth it, I recommend it so you do not miss absolutely anything of these events, for me it will be like a world cup, the only thing missing would be other selections from other continents that well will not play, but the EURO and the Copa America promise, the truth is it will be an ideal opportunity to bet, some members of the forum are big football fans, and I am sure they will be excited. there is little left, this Friday the Copa America starts.

Copa América (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copa_Am%C3%A9rica) history shows that Argentina is a most successful team in Copa América with 15 titles and 14 runner-up times. They have same total titles like Uruguay but Uruguay has only 6 runner-up times. Brazil is a third most successful team with 9 titles and 12 runner-up times.

It will make many people surprised that Brazil has considerable less Copa América titles than Argentina and Uruguay. In this Copa América, Argentina will be a best candidate for the trophy after winning World Cup 2022.

Brazil was stronger in the World Cup than in the Copa America, even though the number of trophies is not as many as the Copa America, in the WC final Brazil only failed twice, while in the Copa America, they often failed in the final. and that was quite surprising and proves that in the Copa America, they had more equal competition than in the World Cup, but for quite a long time Brazil was just an ordinary team, they failed in the World Cup and also the Copa America.
What are their current chances? I think there's nothing convincing them to be able to show something surprising later.
Neymar is certain not to play, and it is certain that this will affect their performance later, so even though Brazil are favorites after Argentina that does not mean they will definitely be strong challengers for the reigning champions.

Thanks for remembering me hehehe

The South American championships are “forgotten” by the vast majority, who prefer to watch the European ones, especially when there are two championships simultaneously (Copa America and Euro)
I can help spread the word on my local board, of course  :), but I think people can participate and comment on the thread, but I find it more difficult to bet, I'm being very honest



I can participate too, read the post above to see my opinion about more people, but I'll try anyway
If you explain to me how it works, I'll participate too  :D

The final match of the last Brazil-Argentina Copa America may have been well watched by the entire football world, but after that two friendly matches were held between Brazil and Argentina, but those matches did not end successfully. In the first match, the Argentinian players did not follow the instructions of Corona, due to which the Brazilian health agency suddenly entered the field and then the game was called off. Later, when the same game was organized by Brazil one and a half years later, the Brazilian police clashed with the Argentine fans. And the clash resulted in injuries to several Argentine fans and the game was stopped there. So our hearts regret that Brazil and Argentina meet again in the final of the Copa America. The other teams may prove to be a stumbling block for the big teams so Brazil and Argentina will have to be very cautious and step up to qualify for the finals.

Amazing! We would love to have you! Let us together give Copa the love it deserves!

I completely understand your opinion, and I get it. But if we even have a few of us playing, and Spanish speakers / local board guys coming over to see and even comment a little, I don't care/mind, that would be so great. I know you guys are hardcore futbol people, it's crazy we don't have more of you over here.

darxiaomi will put up the competition thread soon.

The concept is really simple. We'll play on Superbru (http://superbru.com), it's just a free site to play Prediction pools. We've been using it on the forum for years for all kinds of football tournaments (you can see an example for La Liga (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5263150) here).

Each match, you enter a score you predict. You get between 1 to 3 points, depending on accuracy. Highest points after the final wins =)

Ey guys! Hello again to everyone here.

I just create the sign up thread for the american cup (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5499646.msg64200754#msg64200754) you can check there all the info, i expect to see some of you playing, lets join the competition and have some fun between us.

If you have any question or want to change something lets discuss here.

Finals words? Yes im the reigning champion...... Lets beat me. ;D

I think that many always go in favor of Argentina and Brazil because of the quality of players they always have. I personally think that some teams have a lot to surprise, the truth is Colombia is a team that promises, and watch out for Venezuela, those kids are motivated and want to make history, the Copa America serves to measure themselves very well with the toughest in South America, like Uruguay, Paraguay, I think that South American football is one of the strongest in the world, some say that it is European, but come on, in a South American qualifier even the countries that can finish in 2nd or 3rd place by one less, like Ecuador, Peru, I think that all South American teams have to be careful.

It is true that Brazil and Argentina have good squads at the moment, but unlike you, I will side with Uruguay who will win the 16th Copa America trophy this time, because they are a strong team with several star players and of course their mainstay is Darwin Nunez in the front position, indeed the criticism of Nunez at Liverpool was quite harsh, but this player cannot be underestimated if he plays for his country, he is the best and also Valverde, who has very good qualities, will try to make his country the best this season.

Moreover, Uruguay has a great coach, Marcelo Bielsa, who already has a wealth of experience in the world of coaching, so it is very likely that Marcelo Bielsa will bring Uruguay to compete closely with Argentina and also Brazil for the Cpa America title this time.

There is no doubt that teams like Uruguay and Colombia are very strong in the Copa America. However, Argentina and Brazil will be considered the most favorites for the Copa America. The players of these teams play with all the renowned clubs of the world, and are very experienced.

Brazil's three opponents in the Copa America, Costa Rica, Paraguay and Colombia are all three very strong teams. It is going to be very difficult for Brazil to win all their matches in the group stage and stay at the top of the table. Moreover, Brazil's performance is still somewhat erratic. The coach is yet to stabilize the team. However, there are plenty of talented players in Brazil's squad.

Competition will take place in the United States and indeed the two countries really have almost the same chances, but as I said, the two could meet in the final if they don't meet sooner.
When Argentina and Brazil actually bring together the final, it will be very heated final match, both of them will fight hard to achieve victory and emerge as champions, after that whoever wins will qualify for the 2025 CONMEBOL–UEFA Cup.
Argentina could be the defending champions if they can perform well and win the final, but several other team will definitely hinder Argentina efforts to retain the title and become 16th title.

Yes, it is possible for Brazil to have stable performance because they have several young players who have the potential to lead them to glory, plus some of these players can also focus on playing for Brazil because of the season break.

Most people are very convinced that Brazil or Argentina will win the Copa América because they are two national teams with a good squad of players, but they forget that in the past Argentina and Brazil also had a good squad and it was even a much better squad than the current squad and even so there were editions of the Copa América in which Brazil and Argentina did not win, looking at the history of Copa América winners:

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source: https://www.worldfootball.net/winner/copa-america/

and looking at the number of achievements that Brazil has:

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source: https://www.worldfootball.net/winner/copa-america/

there are fewer achievements that Urugay has, by that I mean that despite Brazil and Argentina being two teams that have a squad of very popular players, it is still possible that they won't win anything and it will be Chile or Urugay that win this Copa America, even that chile and urugay are a team that currently doesn't have many famous players, but in the particular case of urugay, they are in a group of weak teams and in the last games urugay beat brazil and beat argentina, which shows that urugay You can also win this Copa America in my opinion

With the current form of Argentina I think they are going to retain that title. Currently I don't see any team in the competition that can stop Argentina from winning the trophy back to back. Since Argentina won the world cup it looks like that are no longer in any pressure. They are playing their games and getting results. Argentina has lots of great talents that other teams don't have currently. Well Brazil can try but it will only end in trying. Football has really left the Brazil camp, their recent players are not matching the standard that was set by their legends. Brazil are no longer that team they used to be, that every nation used to be afraid to face them. If Brazil get to the final against Argentina it's game over for Brazil. Neymer and his counterparts has failed Brazil, much was expected from him. But injuries upon injuries characterized his football career which never allowed him to achieve his full potential and lead his country to win a trophy.

Brazil and Argentina team was excellent and  both teams gave their hundred percent to win the match but Brazil lose the match by 0-1 . In the next Cup, I think Argentina will be more strong because their players are looking in good form and they did lot of work on team . Otamendi did goal for Argentina at the 63 minutes after the start of match. Messi isy favorite player and he could not perform well in this match  but his team won due to great combination but goalkeeper Martínez stoped many goals and that is major cause of their win . Argentina passes were more in number and that were 425 but Brazil passes were 400 . Brazil got 1 red card but Argentina got no red card and they played smoothly in the game.

Just bumping this because every single post since this announcement has been ignoring it, come on commenters and posters, show us your gambling side and join this contest, watch me bear darxiaomi ;)


No surprise. Most people follow the favourites, and these are the ones with the most obvious talents (also the most populations, so seems logical they have so many players). I put my backing behind Colombia before and stuck with the same in Superbru but I've liked Uruguay a lot now. The guy everyone hates was there for a long time (Suarez), and now the guy everyone hates these days is also there (Nunez). I like their chances. Bielsa's methods are best for knockout tournaments, really.

Now go join the pool :P

With the current display of Argentina in the last Copa America in 2021 and since they are the only country to have won the competition 3 times consecutively in 1945, 1946 and 1947 before the tournament entered into every Four years now so they can possibly win again but Uruguay is also a very competitive country and the both countries have won the competition 15 times each. Brazil also used to be a good side but they have really declined in performance even though they have experienced players like Neymar Jr, Vinicius Jnr, Endrick, Casemiro, Rodrygo, Richarlison and Manchester city goal keeper Ederson but yet their performance in the Copa America hasn't been that impressive. Neymar Jr was a very good force in the Brazilian squad but due to his numerous injuries have made him decline in performance instead the player to look up to now is Vinicius Jnr.

I'm going to take part too and I've already posted there to let you know
I think we'll get 10 people or more hehe

It'll be nice to discuss with more people here too, as it's always difficult to find many people to exchange information and tips about South American soccer

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I still need a few days to make a better analysis, but I think Argentina is favorite here
Brazil and Uruguay are always the favorites along with Argentina, but at this stage, I see them as the favorites
It could be Messi's last competition for Argentina too, if he doesn't make it to the 2026 World Cup

For years, Brazil has been the favorite in every tournament, continental or international. There's no need to make any surprises, just look at their squad and squad depth, isn't that enough to consider them champions in this Copa America?


You live in the old world, there are no more Messi, Ronaldo or Neymar. We have sufficient regeneration, and for Brazil we have Vinicius who has proven his achievements at club level.

Sometimes you think, well, they are bots, they see the thread and simply interact in a topic that says Copa América, come on, what better addition to a thread that has the pompous title... :

Copa America 2024 Prediction Thread

... than adding a competition between at least 50% of those who comment on the thread, :)

Yeah!!!

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Without going too far, the --Messi effect makes one believe that Argentina dominated the Copa América in the Messi era, and when you look at the data it is surprising that it has won it only once in 31* years, and that is when you think how it is possible, well... it is point, now Pointing out Argentina is not entirely reliable, in fact it should not be one of the candidates, unlike Brazil which in that same period of 30 years has won it 5 times, which is a fairly high percentage taking into account that they have been 12 editions (1993*).

Did I say I really like Uruguay? I completely overlooked how Ecuador seems to be brewing up a mini golden generation of players, too. Not sure I've ever recognised this many names in their squad... Valencia seems to still have his scoring boots on from World Cup, Caicedo (not Moises haha) snuck a goal in yesterday, I think it's just a huge shame about Estupinan otherwise Ecuador would be considered a dark horse.


Counting on you to tempt a few more Brasileros to the pool, we're almost ten now, without relying on pool veterans. Tell them they have to be campeão do mundo in Bitcointalk Copa pool haha, that usually gets Brazilians going ;)

Many people underestimate the Copa America and even South American soccer, but you've made a good analysis
Throughout Messi's era (and others like Di Maria, Tevez, Mascherano, Aguero etc), Argentina only managed to win it once in 2021
In 2016 Messi won the Ballon d'Or, and even then Argentina lost to Chile in the final

In my opinion, it's great to see other teams winning a competition because it's more exciting, there's more interest from those countries and in general it makes soccer evolve because the big teams need to change and correct a lot of things

In the last season's Copa America held in Brazil, Brazil were heavy favorites and faced Argentina in the final. After falling behind Argentina, Neymar and other players attacked a lot against Argentina but in the end they could not win against Argentina. This Copa America squad has some changes from the last Copa America squad. Most likely, Brazil's Neymar will not be present in this Copa America and he has not been able to make the team due to injury problems. Although Neymar did not get a place in the team, all the other players in the team are experienced enough and have enough skills. Most of the young players have been given a place in the team and hopefully Brazil will win the Copa America title again with the help of young players.

Schedule matches of Copa America has the same with Euro 2024 make many fans expected for watching Euro but Lionel Messi attention make Copa America will be difference and many fans waitibg for him apearance with Argentina. Lionel Messi won Copa America 2021 and become his first Copa America trophy although he was won World Cup 2022 but continues impressive perform by winning Copa America 2024 mske him become strong candidate for winning Ballon d'Or 2024.

Argentina has more than 80% of their composition teams for Copa America are the winner of World Cup bu some player have been absent lile Paulo Dybala after his name not in the Argentina list team.

I think it's time for Brazil to actually lift a trophy right ? It's been a while since they won Copa America and if they managed to do this , I think they will also win World Cup and go back 2 back champions in America.

Argentina has a strong squad as always but I feel the ego's on that team will guide them towards elimination and frankly Columbia is currently in a very great football form and I won't be surprised if these 2 will actually face each other in elimination game with Columbia emerging victorious.  8)

I think it is actually spelt "Colombia" in both Spanish and English.
Also, it could be possible for Argentina to allow their ego to affect their performance, still holding that sense of being the world champions, but I would not underestimate them either, you know, they are quite a professional team and they must be aware they need to continue to work and train for the Cope America and the next world cup.
Here in Venezuela we are still holding our expectations on whether we are going to even clasify for the next World Cup, it is still very far from happening, however the mere fact it could be an entrance for us to participate is more than enough for people to feel hopeful and optimistic on the future of our national selection.

I don't believe that EGO can hinder the performance of the Argentine national team. They have been playing consistently for many years and are always competing for titles. It's no wonder that they have reached the final twice in the last 3 World Cups (2014 and 2022). This generation of Argentine players is very good.

I don't know what you are seeing in those young players in Brazilian team that's making you think that they are going to win the tournament. But with the look of things Argentina are the more complete team in that tournament that's capable of winning the Copa America. Argentina has experienced old players and Young talents combined together, they have been playing together for long and they know each other pattern of play. There is harmony in the Argentine's locker room. They still want to compete at the highest level and still show why they are the world champion. It's bad that Neymer is not going to be available to play for the Brazilian side, this would have been another opportunity for him to try and win something with his country, but it's a shame that he is not going to be with the team.

Hey! For those who are interested in seeing some games before the Copa America starts, these are the games that will be played before(or they played) the Cup begins:

1 de junio
México 1 - 0 Bolivia
Costa Rica 0 - 0 Uruguay
5 de junio
México vs. Uruguay (9 p.m. ET) en el Empower Field at Mile High en la ciudad de Denver, Colorado, EEUU.
6 de junio
Países Bajos contra Canadá (2:45 p.m. ET) en el estadio De Kuip, en Róterdam, Holanda
7 de junio
Perú vs. Paraguay (6 p.m. ET) en el Estadio Monumental de Lima en Lima, Perú.
8 de junio
Estados Unidos vs. Colombia (5:30 p.m. ET) en el estadio FedExField en Landover, Maryland, EEUU.
México vs. Brasil (8:30 p.m. ET) en el estadio Kyle Field en College Station, Texas, EEUU.
9 de junio
Francia vs. Canadá (3:15 p.m. ET) en el estadio Matmut Atlantique en Burdeos, Francia.
Argentina vs. Ecuador (6 p.m. ET) en el estadio Soldier Field en Chicago, EEUU.
Junio 11
Chile vs Paraguay (8 p.m. ET) en el Estadio Nacional Julio Martínez Prádanos en Santiago, Chile.
12 de junio
Estados Unidos vs Brasil (7 p.m. ET) en el estadio Camping World en Orlando, Florida, EEUU.
Ecuador vs. Bolivia (8:30 p.m. ET) en el estadio Subaru Park en Chester, Pensilvania, EEUU.

14 de junio
Guatemala vs. Argentina (6 p.m. ET) en el estadio FedExField en Landover, Maryland, EEUU.
El Salvador vs. Perú (8:30 p.m. ET) en el estadio Subaru Park en Chester, Pensilvania, EEUU.

15 de junio
Colombia vs Bolivia (5 p.m. ET) en el estadio Pratt & Whitney en East Hartford, EEUU.

16 junio
Ecuador vs. Honduras (3:30 p.m. ET) en el estadio Pratt & Whitney en East Hartford, Connecticut, EEUU.

17 de junio
Panamá vs. Paraguay (6:30 p.m. ET) en el Estadio Rommel Fernández Gutiérrez en Ciudad de Panamá, Panamá.
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I am very curious to see how Brazil will play because they were doing very badly. I hope they recover and can have a good Copa America. I just remember that team where Kaka, Ronaldo and Dinho were. With those players it was enough to scare the other teams because when they went out on the field they were titans, the way they moved and played. With them alone it was enough to win a World Cup. At that time I admire how France was able to snatch the World Cup from Brazil with Zidane and Deschamps, who played very well, and obviously with the help of titi Henry. I want to see Brasil at the same level as those titans.


Grande @famososMuertos, thanks so much for the update,  I was surprised that Brazil tied the United States after beating a very hopeful Mexico, They are friendly matches, but they are good ones.

Even though Brazil lost to France in the 1998 final, I have great memories of that World Cup.
They were a team that most Brazilians were proud to watch and cheer for, and they were a match for any team in the world

Today, I would say that the problems of the Brazilian national team are many, but I would highlight the corruption that has taken place in the CBF, the disorganization in choosing a new coach, the old dogmas that the CBF still carries and the lack of a sense of community among the players
But even so, it's a team that is always among the favorites and can never be underestimated


If you're thinking of watching a Brazil game, I recommend Brazil vs Colombia which promises to be a great match as Colombia are playing VERY well and have everything it takes to be a team that will reach the semi-finals

That's one point I will also love to endorse as there was a time where Messi, Ronaldo or Neymar were all unknown in the history of football and there will be a time they will be forgotten as well. This is why time is everything about life as it shapes the activities of the world over time. There are new generation of footballers now that are also doing some wonder jobs at the club side. They have the energy, the morale, the skills and the passion to work hard for the team especially if they have the opportunity to serve their nations. I have the thought that many managers will be looking at out to work with them without the star players mentioned above rather than working with those old guys who are hanging their boots anytime soon.

A lot have been said about different generations of the Brazilian team and how they were almost unstoppable as well as how poor the current Brazil national team have been in their results. The Copa America is almost upon us and despite the intimidating quality of players in the Brazilian team, many still believe that they're very beatable. The Argentina national team is even seen as better team than their their Brazilian counterparts by some people. In my own opinion I think the Brazil national team stands a good chance of winning the Copa America this summer despite not having a high profile manager in the dugout.
 Talent wise, I don't think there's any other team that'll participate in the Copa America that's better than Brazil which is why I strongly believe that where team work doesn't favour them, individual brilliance will likely help them overcome.

I disagree with this. Brazil will either work as a team, or it won't work at all. Individual brilliance won't help them at all. The teams in the Copa America are very disciplined and compact, teams would find it very difficult to penetrate their opponents if they don't play as a team.
Secondly, I don't see anybody in Brazil who is good enough to win games for them and lead them with individual brilliance. Neymar is not here, Vinicius is not representing, Rodrygo is the only attacker that can step up and I don't believe even he has what it takes to individually take Brazil to the trophy.

When you watch Argentina, you'll see that they play as a team, even Messi plays with his teammates. That makes things easier for them. It is this reason that makes me rate Uruguay slightly above Brazil in this tournament. It's going to be interesting to watch.

I said at the beginning that the competition in the Copa America is always between two teams, Brazil and Argentina. Other than Brazil and Argentina, the other teams can win the trophy in less time. Brazil announced their best team ahead of the Copa America, on the other hand, we have seen Argentina always announce their best team since the World Cup. Not much has changed from Argentina's World Cup squad to the Copa America squad, but Brazil's squad has changed considerably. The way Brazil has performed in recent matches we can expect Brazil to do well.

Too narrow if we judge only Brazil who has good talent because there are still Argentina, Uruguay, Chile who has good talent.
Individual expertise is not always prioritized in team games. Instead, having more players prioritizing individuals in the team will make the teamwork damaged and the results will not be good. In a team there is no need for too many players who have individual brilliance because this is a team game.
For those who know how this sport, they will not agree with you about it.

It should be like that, the star players of the past were just icons, they no longer had running speed, stamina or other important things in the game. Look at how much hype there was when Cristiano went to the SPL, it created another wave of moves for other European players.

I think that's enough for this discussion, it's better if we get to the real point. Only 1 week before the first Copa America match which will be held in the US is played, there we have Argentina - Canada, in theory this will be an easy match for Argentina because they only play against Canada which isn't a strong team. What do you think? any other views?

Right, it is unlikely to happen, since they have showed themselves to be professionals and handle victories and defeats in a good way. Always searching for improvement of their skills. I only mentioned it because it is something I have seen happening to other teams of world class against other teams which were supposed not to be as prepared as they were, and the favorite team ended up losing for whatever reason.
Ego is always bad in any sport, because it leads to underestimate de abilities of the foe team, and opens the gates to blunts.
Only time will sell whether Argentina will keep their ego aside and do not underestimate their future opponents in the American Cup.

One week left for the first match of Copa America and Argentina vs Canada will be the opening match, considering group round opponent teams I think not much problem for Argentina securing the first place on Group A because the difficult opponent teams likely only Chile than Canada or Peru are not difficult national team opponent for Argentina.
But against Canada on the first match, Argentina should secure three points how to make easily on second until third matches later, Argentina has ambition as the host want defend their Copa America trophy winning last edition and winning Copa America 2024 in front of their fans as most special achievement.

For the first match against Canada I have prediction with Argentina win over two goals and get potential Lionel Messi will score the goals on Copa America opening match.

This evening at the Allianz Arena in Munich, Germany kick started the 2024 UEFA Euros Championship against Scotland of which they convincingly defeated the British nation with a 5:1 scoreline. Now that the Euros have kicked off, football fans across the globe are now eagerly waiting for the kickoff of the Copa America so that the summer will become more interesting and eventful. In a week time, the first game of this year's Copa America will be played between Argentina and Canada. Canada as we all know isn't known to be a strong football nation so I don't expect them to get a result against the world champions.
Argentina will definitely win the game and probably with a wide margin. The interesting games of the tournament I think will start in the knockout stages where strong teams will meet other strong teams.

Quote from: LUCKMCFLY on June 13, 2024, 04:46:55 PM

Hey!! My friend...
It's been a long time since my posts were crossed with a post from Lucky MC Fly, I mean, football brought us closer.

What do you think about the Pool that Darxaiomi mentions? I read you whenever I can, you do good analysis, maybe you should show your skills in competition  8)

Hasta Luego!

You are right mate,too much of talent is not even good to me.A team will be packed with stars and they will end up achieving nothing incredible at the end of the season.For a country or a team to perform well,it's not because there are so many big name or bright starts in the team,it is because they have team spirit in them.If you look at PSG when they had Neymar, Mbape and Messi,they were not able to win the Champions league.where on earth will you get that three combination and you won't say they will win the Champions league.Football will humble you.All a team need is a good coach,determined players who are ready to work,and have team spirit.If you can get all these,then you are good to go.

Argentina isn't the host of the current edition of the Copa America, this competition is attended by 10 teams from CONMBEOL & 6 teams from CONCACAF and the host this time is US. I also wonder why the opening match was not played by the host team, instead it went to Argentina - Canada.

Argentina's normal handicap in this match is - 0.5 to - 0.75, so I think it will be very difficult for Argentina to win with Messi scoring too. Take a look at the betting markets and you will realize that we'll have more advantages if we go to Canada on handicap betting.

I think in the world of football no one will be able to forget Ronaldo and Messi, even though in the future there will be a new generation, they will become and place themselves alongside the legendary football legends of the future, especially the current generation in the world of football social media, with social media they will find out how great Ronaldo and Messi were in their time.

Indeed, from time to time many new talents will be born, but the figure of Messi Ronaldo will be a separate figure so that no one will forget him in the world of football, indeed this will be the end of their retirement due to age, but there are still many clubs and Also the coach wants to work with them because they have good experience and of course can be a motivator on and off the field, because they are legendary figures in football today.

This is hard match for Canada because in the first match of this tournament Canada have to facing defending champion Argentina and i think their consistency will be tested in this match because we all know Argentina is one of the strongest team in this tournament with Brazil and before playing in this tournament Canada has been done several friendlies matches against European teams such as France and Netherlands but the match against France is really impressive because Canada can playing draw against this team

Canada has Jonathan David and Alphonso Davies and these players can performing well with their teams this season so Argentina should beware of them because potentially they can get Argentina in trouble and for Argentina i think we shouldn't discuss more about them because they are in the good shape especially as world cup champion status Argentina will have more motivation to defend their title in this tournament and the current Copa America also very special for their captain Messi because possibly this could be his last Copa America tournament with Argentina before he gets retired however about the betting option as the favourite the bookmakers was provide low odds for Argentina win @1.33 but indeed Argentina potentially can win with big scores from this match so over 2.5 goals also seems good to be considered

This is a possibility in the last 2 years but you still have to be wary of Chile and Uruguay because these two countries are said to be very strong this year, even though we haven't seen a match from either of them, these two countries are strengthened by quite good players, plus the hosts The United States and Mexico also have to be wary of the game they had in the world cup yesterday, even though Argentina is the defending champion, it is likely that they will not be as easy to do as they were 2 years ago.

It looks like the last champion Argentina have a nice group to finish in the 1st place.  :)  Chile might be the most challenging competitor. But I don't think they are as strong as their past years. They won the Copa America twice in a row many years ago but they had much better players who were in their golden eras. Now some of them are still in the squad but they have got old - such as Alexis Sanchez.  :(

I think the champion will be no different than Argentina or Brazil. I'm favouring Argentina now. Brazil have a new manager and we don't know how good they will play yet.

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This is the bracket. Let's say Argentina completed Group A as the leader and Brazil did the same in Group D. Then there is a big chance to watch a finale between. I hope it happens.  ::)

I agree that Argentina and Brazil are always candidates to appear in the final. Because if you look at the opportunities of other countries, the opportunities are not that big. Argentina has a capable squad but Brazil is also much more capable and evenly matched in every line. I have no other choice to win the trophy at the Copa America apart from these 2 countries. Brazil front line can attack from various positions, Brazil midfield and back line are very solid, just like Argentina where Messi, De Maria and Garnacho have troublesome abilities, midfield, defenders and goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez are still goalkeepers who are difficult to penetrate.

But individual factors greatly affect the enthusiasm of the team. But Brazil has an average skill in each player, in contrast to Argentina who only relies on Leo. Argentina has a high enthusiasm after they won the Qatar World Cup last season, although Brazil was only able to survive in the quartel-final round. Copa America is more dominated by Argentina. But this season Brazil the Copa American champion candidate. Of course there are Chile, America, Paraguay and others. But according to us, see from many predictions, Brazil is more dominating.

For those who want to watch or bet on Copa America matches, my suggestion is to watch and analyze the Colombian team
I won't go into too much detail yet, but I'm thinking of focusing my bets on Brazil and Colombia
The Colombian team is 22 games unbeaten, and take a look at the teams they've faced during this unbeaten run HERE (https://www.google.com/search?q=sele%C3%A7%C3%A3o+colombiana&rlz=1C1FCXM_pt-PTBR991BR991&oq=sele%C3%A7%C3%A3&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqDggAEEUYJxg7GIAEGIoFMg4IABBFGCcYOxiABBiKBTIGCAEQRRg7MgYIAhBFGDsyBggDEEUYOzIGCAQQRRg5Mg0IBRAuGIMBGLEDGIAEMg0IBhAuGIMBGLEDGIAEMgYIBxBFGDzSAQgxNTIwajBqN6gCCLACAQ&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#sie=t;/m/032c08;2;/m/01l5y1;mt;fp;1;;;)

Could be contenders for a final in my opinion

Yes, I agree with you, this year Brazil will be the team that is most likely to be the winner of the Copa America, but how good Endrick is, he reminds me a lot of Pele from his movements, obviously there are many other teams but Argentina relies on too much for Messi who, let's face it, is no longer what he used to be

If you look at the quality of the players in Argentina and Brazil, these two teams could actually dominate the Copa America this season. Because Argentina also has talented young players, the Argentine side will definitely not rely too much on Leo even though Messi himself is played as the main player in the Argentine squad. However, the Brazilian players also have more young players who are quite dangerous so it will be quite interesting when these two countries face each other in the Copa America match in certain rounds.

I dont think Brazil with their current performance will be able to dominate the Copa America, Brazil performance in the FIFA WCQL last year was very bad, from 6 matches they could only win 2 times and lose 3 times.
Brazil also just appointed their new coach in January this year, 5 months perhaps not enough to bring Brazil performance back to the top.
While Argentina, after becoming World Cup Champions, have won 13 of their last 14 matches in the FIFA WCQL and international friendlies, Argentina will clearly dominate the Copa America this year, not Brazil.

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As for my favourites in these 4 groups:

• Argentina would be the leader in Messi's lead in Group A. I think Chile will finish as 2nd.
• I'm having quite much difficulty between Mexico and Ecuador for 1st place as for Group B. But these two should be able to qualify no matter what.
• My favourite to lead is Uruguay in Group C and USA should be right behind.
• In Group D, I believe in Brazil to be at top. We don't have much idea about Dorival Júnior yet but I still expect this. Colombia should be finishing behind.

Brazil - Argentina would be the best final matchup here.  ;)  Honestly I would like to see Brazil winning something finally so I hope they make it.

That is a fact that cannot be denied, because Brazil is now experiencing a slight setback for the Copa America trophy this time. Argentina is a strong candidate to win, they have better and more even squad depth in every line, but Brazil is still one of the teams to be taken into account. That's right, the journey of the two teams in the World Cup qualifying rounds was very different, no one expected Brazil to perform that badly. Losing Neymar to injury may be one factor, and changes in management within the Brazilian football federation are also another reason. Ancelotti was linked with becoming manager, before they finally appointed Dorival Junior.

On the other hand, Brazil is in group D with Colombia, Paraguay and Costa Rica in the Copa America, I think they will be able to qualify for the next round with the status of group winners. Overall, Argentina is the favorite to win the Copa America, Messi presence has a big influence on their mentality. Dorival Junior needs hard work to bring Brazil to the top of its performance, encouraging its players to unleash their full potential, Vinicius, Rodrygo and Endrick could be the hope this time.

We often get to hear this statement, Messi not being able to do what he does back then not until he enters the field then we begin to see something spectacular as usual from same alien Messi. Do we call Brazil the favourite base on the involvement of Endrick, if so then we should be able to easily picture the influence of Messi on the team. Brazil will play on different abilities compared to Argentina squad who are down and willing to sacrifice everything they got just to win the Cup because clearly they understand the presence of of Messi and wouldn't want to limit his possibilities of winning it, all players becomes aggressive than usual just to secure this victory by all means.

Is there anything similar to me watching the Copa America later just waiting for Brazil and Argentina performance? Meanwhile, other national teams are less interesting to watch. Maybe Uruguay isn't that bad, but what is clear is that many people close to me say the Copa America will be just like the two big matches of Brazil and Argentina. I don't know why other national teams are only considered as additional entertainment that is not fun to watch.

Ronaldinho Gaúcho recently gave an interview saying that he stopped supporting and watching matches of the Brazilian team... He said that this team lacks absolutely everything: determination, will, disposition, standard of play... there was extremely heavy criticism of the team ... In a way I agree with him, after all, for me this current Brazilian team is the worst of all time.

No surprises here, Argentina beat Guatemala with two goals from Messi, but Guatemala surprised everyone by scoring in the first five minutes..

Arg 4 - Gua 1

In the match of another favorite to win the Copa America, Colombia 3 - Bolivia 0

I did not watch this warm-up match between Argentina and Guatemala due to my busy schedule but I did not miss watching the highlights of this match. When I was watching the highlights of the match between these two teams on my computer I saw that Di Maria took a bicycle kick like Ronaldo. But luckily it wasn't a goal, the ball went over the bar then it was great to watch I was amazed that even at such an old age, she carried such a young body and carried such a great short.

In the end, Argentina team won this match by 4-1 Goals. Maybe before the start of the Copa America, they are letting it be known that they are going to be champions again. There may be a lot of hope for the Argentina team this time too as they look relatively stronger than the other teams. 2024 Copa America may feature Argentina's full strength team.

I'm not sure if this current Brazil team is the worst (probably not), but we have to give coach Dorival Jr a chance to show his work in a competition

As for the players, I agree. In the past, Brazilians were very proud of players, in the most recent history of soccer that I follow: Ronaldo, Ronaldinho, Rivaldo, Roberto Carlos, Cafu, Taffarel, Romário (who in 2002 there was a great popular appeal to take him to the World Cup, but Felipão didn't)

Nowadays, if you ask people, most of them don't like these players very much, even Neymar, to tell you the truth I don't like him too much, He is very good playing soccer, but he loses his mind everytime we need him, he make a lot of child mistakes in the field

I think Brazil will do a good Copa America, reaching at least a semi final

Neymar, despite having chosen to be a celebrity instead of an athlete, is still the best Brazilian player in activity, he has been leading the Brazilian team for more than 10 years... He is the last of what could be called a "star" Brazilian, that is, a player who has all the fundamentals of a great player... the rest of the Brazilian team only has "ok" or "common" players... There is nothing that can be done, this generation of Brazilians It's very weak compared to what it had in the past

Yes indeed, regarding the Copa America I think the biggest chance to win and get the trophy is about Brazil and Argentina but even so, in reality Brazil and Argentina also don't always succeed in getting it. Because, on several previous occasions, the Copa America trophy was won by teams such as Chile, Uruguay, Colombia and several other teams also experienced success, such as Peru, Paraguay and also Bolovia. But even so, still, the flags of Brazil and Argentina remain the biggest candidates to win the trophy, moreover Brazil and  Argentina always produce or have potential young players. Therefore, I think it makes sense that Brazil and Argentina are thebiggest candidate teams to win the Copa America trophy at this moment.

Yes @famososMuertos I'll take a look, thank you so much.

Regarding the Brazil section with what Dinho said, well those are very strong words and it's really hard to contradict a player of that age, that's like saying no to Ronaldo or Roberto Carlos , what I think is that the players now have a very different way of Seeing things than the players of the old days, I hope that group in general improves, there the one who has to Carry the team on his shoulders is Neymar Jr.

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Well, guys, it's already started and it looks great. We're all in suspense. I can't hide my excitement. The truth is that football is the most beautiful sport in the world (as they say on ESPN). I think the fact that we're watching the COPA America in the same month as the Euro Cup and then the Olympic Games are coming up is priceless. Then there's the South American football qualifiers which are also exciting. This is something that's going to keep us all in suspense. Sharing here with everyone and their ways of seeing football enriches and shows that football unites.

You like him more than I do  :D
In my opinion, if he was more humble and had a good mentality, he would have won a lot more titles and maybe even a World Cup

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Now that I'm going to take part in the Poll I have to study the groups and teams well to try and get as many results as possible hehehe
Apart from the poll, I'll still be placing my bets as normal, I've even sorted out my bankroll because the Copa America is starting in 3 days' time, I'm really looking forward to it

Well there are the two favorite's and also the two finalists last year so I would not be surprised if the two can emulate such success again in the Copa America. But football sometimes is filled with suprises and I remember one particular period when Chile held the title with firm hands as they won Argentina twice in the finals but as for now the Chilean team can't boast of such strength again.

I really like this Uruguayan team, it has one of the best midfielders in Brazilian football: De Arrascaeta... and it also has De La Cruz and Suarez... maybe the Uruguayan team can have an excellent championship, as it doesn't have as much pressure as it is not considered a favorite, but it could very well surprise.

It was said that it was just part of an advertisement, Ronaldinho didn't really say it. Many people were shaken after Ronaldinho made this statement, the actual fact is that Ronaldinho still supports the Brazilian national team wholeheartedly. Rapinha had time to respond to this statement, and she was also wobbly. Indeed, the current Brazilian squad is very different from a decade ago, but they still have the mentality of a winning team. In my opinion, Brazil glorious era is not over yet, they still have a young generation who has the potential to take Brazil back to the top. Vinicius and Rodrygo will lead Brazil in the future, young talents like Endrick will also be a new hope. Brazil performance in the World Cup qualifiers was very disappointing, but they have a chance to qualify. Meanwhile, Brazil chances in the Copa America are quite good, they have a strength that is almost close to Argentina.

The golden generation cannot be golden all the time and that’s what is happening to Brazil at the moment. They were times in which at every tournament they are the favourites but right now they’re ain’t up there with best. This is not even about not having the best players but the commitment to me is lacking. People say they lack players and I said no, the players might not be that great as in the past but they definitely do. Take away Neymar who to me after his breakout World Cup in their own country hasn’t lived up to that expectations again with numerous number of injuries hindering his progress and also his ability to win the Ballon d’Or

But let’s take a look at other players the likes of Vinicius are still in their peak and arguably the Best player currently in the world. Coupled with other players who are doing well in their clubs I think they can actually go on to win any tournament if they are committed and well prepared. Let’s take a look at Argentina, aside Messi in the current squad no player can be considered to be easily in the top 10 in the world and yet they are the best men national team at the moment. They once had the golden generations also but wasted them too due to lack of commitment but now even the average players playing with their hearts are taking the nation to glory.

Is there a better team than Argentina and Brazil so far in the Copa America?
So far we know Brazil and Argentina are two big teams that continue to be giants in the Americas, their dominance in the Copa America is certainly not in doubt, so indeed for the current Copa America of course they are strong candidates to be able to become champions, Argentina previously managed to win the Copa America and with a squad that was indeed filled by the majority of players in the previous Copa of course it is not impossible for them to be able to win the Copa America consecutively, Brazil, which is currently starting to rely on young players, of course, is still worthy of the favorite even though their chances are not better than Argentina in my opinion.

Argentina is so far a team that has a quite capable squad by still relying on Messi and Martinez in the front line, so we can indeed say that if their squad is quite balanced with a combination of young players, indeed we cannot deny that other teams can give a surprise in the Copa but I think they are not capable enough to be able to break the dominance of Brazil and Argentina so far.

Well, that with Brazil is difficult to define, they always have it, what is known is that one of the best golden generations of all time that never won a World Cup, and could not win anything, was Brazil in the 70s and the 80s, Zico, Socrates, Junior and company, were one of the best teams of all time, they didn't win anything.

Almost the same thing happens with Argentina, only it was not marked as a failure, because Messi, Di Maria, and a couple of other players maintained the image of that great generation that almost left without a great title.

The point is, that with teams like Argentina and Brazil it is difficult to mention that the golden generations are never there, they always have elite teams/goldens.



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Maybe you tried to mention: "the commitment" to his national team and not think so much about the millions he earns in his clubs...

The Copa America is generally dominated by Argentina and Brazil, two giants in the football world. No team has consistently outperformed these two sides in the tournament history. Argentina, boasting a blend of experienced players such as Messi and Martinez alongside some young talent, stands a good chance at defending their title. On the other hand, Brazil, although more dependent on young players, still emerges as a strong contender due to their quality intrinsic and considerable potential.

It is indeed possible that other teams could surprise but considering the history and strength of the squad, Argentina and Brazil remain the strongest contenders for clinching the Copa America title. Their players' balance plus quality makes them not easy to beat by any other teams on the American continent.

It is a pity that Neymar is not included in the Brazil squad in this Copa America but indeed, the injury factor experienced by Neymar may also be one of the factors that Neymar is no longer included in the Brazil squad at this moment. But indeed, although Neymar is a star player, but Neymar very often suffers from long injuries and thus, Neymar is not fully successful to give many trophies to Brazil. But about Brazil's chances in this Copa America which is joined in group D with Paraguay, Colombia and Costa Rica, I personally believe that Brazil will be able to qualify maybe until the final match vs Argentina, who knows. Because anyway, even though there is no Neymar in the Brazilian squad, but the fact is that Brazil still has many great players and is still relatively young too and thus, their ambition is very high to achieve good results with the Brazilian national team.

I'm terms of the most talented squads that'll participate in the upcoming Copa America finals, I don't think there's any team that's stronger or better than the duo of Argentina and Brazil. Of all the teams that'll participate in the competition, it'll be absolutely surprising for any of them to win the tournament ahead of the two footballing countries. As far as I'm concerned, the Copa America is a competition that fans across the globe are very more interested in watching the performance of both Argentina and Brazil and to analyze which if them is better than the other.
For me I'll be supporting the Brazilian national team to win this summer's edition of the Copa America but that doesn't mean that I'll be surprised if Argentina overpowers them to claim the trophy. Football is one sports that's been connecting people across the globe irrespective of their race or beliefs so despite the fact that I'm not from the continent, I'm looking forward to the start of fge competition

hahay, Docnaster, you guys supporting teams in Copa? Then make sure you make it count by joining the pool here (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5499646.msg64200754#msg64200754).

Personally, looking forward to the bets rdluffy will make (don't forget to share them!), curious to see what the locals think when placing bets. I'm going to snipe at Colombia when/if they're down. Pointless to bet on Arg/Bra I think.

As I said before, the Copa America only has a few countries that compete in it so we don't see any other option not to favor Brazil or Argentina, both countries continue to have good talented that are indeed endless so far, every year they continue to be able to orbit players who can indeed continue to continue their records and also the toughness of previous players,  Brazil, of course, is currently mostly filled with young players, so we can say that they have a good enough performance and stamina at the moment, so we all hope that in the final match we will see them.

If you choose Brazil, of course, I personally prefer to see that Argentina is a strong candidate to win the copa American trophy again this year, because I think with the current squad, of course, Argentina looks more perfect and very balanced both in terms of their performance and experience, if you look at the Argentine lineup that does combine young and senior players,  I think you would also think that Argentina has a greater chance than Brazil at the moment.

The Argentine team is much, much superior to the horrible Brazilian team, this Brazilian team doesn't even have a standard of play, it has difficulties against equally bad teams... In a tournament worth cups, whoever has the most experience and consistency wins, so Argentina mixes experience with talent, it is a very strong candidate for the title... and I would put Uruguay as the second candidate... Brazil with this team will only play without major intentions... Anyway. nothing is impossible, but I would be VERY SURPRISED if the Brazilian team at least reached the final.

Yes you are very correct when it comes to the side of Argentina team, beacuse here we are talking about a team that is the current world cup Champions, A formidable team with talented and an incredible number of players in there to talk about. From my point of view the Brazilian team rate has dropped and I don't really see them as my second favourite team this tournament, So ,Chile in the past competition has really demonstrated a good consistent performance in the past Copa America competition.

Yeah, the reality is different. Just as you said it was only for an ad campaign that's all. Otherwise I was also surprised to hear such serious words from Ronaldinho.  :(

Related source => https://bleacherreport.com/articles/10124985-ronaldinho-says-criticism-of-brazils-2024-copa-america-roster-is-part-of-ad-campaign (https://bleacherreport.com/articles/10124985-ronaldinho-says-criticism-of-brazils-2024-copa-america-roster-is-part-of-ad-campaign)

Raphinha even said that Ronaldinho asked Vinicius Junior about the availability of some tickets a few days before.  ;D

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Aside from that, it is actually a truth that Brazil need to make a big progress with their current manager. They have a squad with lots of potential but teamwork is so limited.  :(  I haven't liked them at all in the 2026 World Cup qualifiers until now.

All things considered, Brazil doesn't really have a very great squad. They have a talented squad I know but it's not very great. The players they have are not world class in their positions like they used to have in the past. Only players like Vinicius and Allison are among the top 5 in their positions in the world and Vinicius is usually non-existent in a Brazilian shit.
They can be a great team if they play as a team, but playing individually makes things more difficult for them. The Brazil or old had all the individual qualities but still played as a team and that is why they were successful.

If they must play individually, they they all have to be world-class players who can produce something out of nothing otherwise, they have to play as a team.
That's the major difference between them and Uruguay and Argentina. Argentina plays as a team. Everybody does his job and helps their teammates do theirs on the pitch.
This Copa America, I don't see Brazil winning it. In the state they are, they would have had a better chance if Neymar was available.

I may not be too respectful of Neymar, but Brazil will be stronger without him (or certainly not weaker). To beat Colombia and Costa Rica you don’t need him, but to beat Argentina you need a more hard-working football player than the capricious Neymar. He has long (probably since his move to PSG) wanted to play only “star” games and is becoming more and more lazy in “ordinary” ones. But it doesn’t happen that you play poorly somewhere and then suddenly return to the top level. It seems that already when he moved to Al-Hilal, in some game for Al-Hilal he was “injured”, but at the same time he went to play for the Brazilian national team.

My opinion on Neymar is that Brazil should already disregard the player for the future
Yes, he has played and can play very well, but the problems he carries are detrimental to the team as a whole
In a match against Argentina, for example, Neymar loses his mind easily and affects the Brazilian team, just look at how many times he has done this playing for the team

He's an experienced player but he still makes the mistakes of a teenager who can't control himself, so I prefer a player who thinks in the whole team, to play in harmony with others

the Copa América is not only dominated by Brazil and Argentina, for example Brazil is the third biggest team when it comes to the greatest number of times each team has won the Copa América, Argentina is at the top and Uruguay is in second place, See this photo to make it easier to understand what I'm talking about:

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source: https://www.90min.com/posts/copa-america-winners-most-successful-nations

see that Uruguay won 15 times while Brazil only won 9 times, so it's not like Brazil is at the top of the list when it comes to the Copa América, and even Brazil's victories are recent achievements, which means that some years Back then they had fewer titles, perhaps the fact that Brazil has good players who play in the big teams in Europe makes people think that they are a very strong national team, but that is not true, this Brazilian national team is very weak , see their performance in the friendly games, see their performance in the world cup qualifying games, to get an idea, here is a photo of Brazil's situation in the world cup qualifying table:

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Even with this change of coach that Brazil made, in my opinion Brazil is still very weak, with this team they have no chance of winning the World Cup and may have a lot of difficulty winning this Copa América. It is enough to see that in the last game that Brazil played, it was a few days ago, in a game in which Brazil played against the United States of America and they drew and the United States of America also participates in the Copa America. So there is a good chance that Brazil will leave this tournament without achieving anything in my opinion

Brazil national teams right now have Vinicius Jr and Rodrygo performed well with their club and success winning Champion League trophy, I don't think Brazil need Neymar with his performance still inconsistency and right now have downgrade career after playing with Al Hilal as Saudi Pro League teams. The era of Neymar have been over and recently Brazil full by youth talented players and not difficult looking for great players has more skill than Neymar.

In Copa America, Brazil at Group D and seems not getting difficult for 16 round ticket behind the opponent teams Colombia, Costa Rica and Paraguay. Seems Brazil get chance for leading the Group D and get opportunity for facing the second team standings team on Group C. Based on their squad recently Brazil has opportunity become the winner of Copa America 2024 but Argentina will be strong opportunity in the final round with both team possibility will face in the final round.

If you look at history since 2000, five teams have won the Copa America, namely Colombia, Brazil, Uruguay, Chile and Argentina. This shows that in the modern era of football, Brazil and Argentina no longer dominate the Copa America. In my opinion, this is actually a good thing because it means the tournament is very competitive and will be as exciting to watch as Euro 2024. Brazil has been the champion since 2000. But at the moment I think they have the worst squad ever. This is the same as what Ronaldinho said some time ago (CMIIW). But despite this they are still one of the strongest in South America. But I think Argentina will win the Copa America again this year.

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I know a lot about Dorival Junior's work, throughout his career he was a coach with a profile similar to the one he was hired by CBF... Second option or conciliator... He even had good jobs at São Paulo and Flamengo, but he was never a great strategist or a daring coach, his work never lasted long at the clubs, like starting and ending a season with consistency, he was always either fired, or hired in the middle of the championship... As I always say , this Brazilian team is one of the worst of all time, I don't believe it will have a good championship...

Brazil has recorded itself as the most third country that has won the Copa America trophy, while currently Argentina and Uruguay are the teams that have won the most American trophies so far, the Brazil squad this season does not look promising but I think they are still capable enough to reach the semifinals or finals later with Argentina, but even so we should not underestimate other teams that are now also starting to have the strength to Competing with Brazil and Argentina, talking about Brazil, of course we cannot deny that the current Brazil squad is mostly very talented young talents, but in terms of experience and mentality, of course they are still very doubtful.

Unlike Argentina who continue to combine their squad to maintain the stability of the team to continue to be able to compete in the future, currently even their legend Ronaldinho also admits that the current Brazil squad is incompetent and finds it difficult to be able to compete with the Latin American other country and even when the Brazilian legend himself says that currently Brazil is at its lowest point, of course it is difficult for us to bet on their current victory.

I think it's not the worst team of Brazil. There have been worse teams, but the whole situation is not good
It's curious to say that because any national team in the world would like to have brazilian players as starters in their teams, like Vinicius Jr, Rodrygo, Endrick etc, but there's still a lack of serious and continuous work that the CBF (Soccer Brazilian Confederation in translation) can't do

I also find it difficult to bet because in any game, even if they play badly, the Brazilian team has players who can solve the match with a single move, as is the case with Vinicius JR, who has even scored very important goals for Real Madrid
And never, never underestimate Brazil when it comes to betting

Yep, that's true. He is a capricious player and with age he has not solved his emotional problems (while Vinnie, for example, has significantly increased his self-control in just a few years).
The problem with players like Neymar is that they are bright, they are praised by the fans and they are remembered for generations, but if they win something, it is mostly merit of other team players.

2 days left guys and we will have a full day of actually watching top football without leaving our sofa  ;D ;D ;D.

Argentina - Canada will be the opening game and we all know Canada has a solid team capable of scoring goals and that's why I do see a both teams to score in this opening game with Argentina taking 3 points in the end because the experience and the pressure on them will make this team to deliver top football.  8)

Which season of the brazilian team was worse than this? As far as I remember, the closest it had to truly bad teams was at the time of coach Emerson Leão and Mano Menezes, but they had players based on corruption (businessman's commission on agency players)... Other than that, I think the selection There has never been a team so bad... absolutely everything is missing... Neymar has been carrying this team on his back for more than 10 years. Vini Junior still hasn't shown what he came for in the Brazilian team

I don't totally disagree with you hehehe
But I remember coach Vanderlei Luxemburgo and Emerson Leão who had very bad results and their stubbornness really hurt the Brazilian team
As well as the controversies you mentioned
That was back in the 2000s, 2001...

Coach Dunga, who I admire a lot, also didn't have a good result with the Brazilian national team in 2010 and it was a bad team at the time

Copa America is more than just Brazil and Argentina, there are good teams in that competition. Chile won it back to back against Argentina some years back. Uruguay and and Paraguay has also been previous winners. It will interest you to know that Brazil hasn't won that trophy for some years now. If you think that Copa America is just Brazil and Argentina as the strong contenders then you are wrong. Argentina are the defending champions for now but for the past 3 or 4 editions Argentina won it only once and Brazil didn't lift any.
On the aspect of Argentina being the favourite to it this time around I think you are right. Their squad is still as solid as it was during the last world cup. They have even new crops of young players coming through their rank. Although Brazil are in desperate need of a trophy but I don't think they are going to end their trophy drought anytime soon.

In the past, Brazil didn't need a great coach because the squad was really great, but as time goes by, modern football can't just rely on a great squad alone. Brazilian legends should go to school and have a coaching license so they can improve the achievements of the Brazilian national team again. Who is the current successful coach from Brazil? Even Dunga and Zico have never been looked at by top European teams as coaches, right?

On the one hand, I agree with Ronaldinho's criticism that Brazil is at its lowest point, this is to encourage the Brazilian players to prove Ronaldinho's words wrong. but on the other hand, he is not only criticized but must do something for the Brazilian team so that Brazil's glory days return. It cannot be denied that Brazil always produces good young talents, but they lack solidity when playing in the Brazilian international team and do not have a winning mentality.

So, in this Copa America I still support Argentina to defend their title. Moreover, Argentina is currently still very superior after winning the World Cup several years ago, Brazil, which was once a tough team, has now lost its magic.

The probabilities will always dominate the results of two soccer games and mainly the bets placed on our sites, but there is something that we believe is not suitable for the referee at the end of the game, only the power to decide a result is what happens , absolutely nothing is defined.

I don't know what the odds are, but you can comment here on the times that I believe we can have a chance of qualifying:

Quarterfinals: Brazil, Argentina, USA, Uruguay, Chile, Peru, Mexico, Venezuela and Paraguai.

Semi-finals: Brazil, Argentina, USA, Uruguay and Chile.

Final: Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay.

Championship: Brazil or Argentina.

Dunga was a very stubborn coach, in the 2010 World Cup he stopped taking Adriano, Ronaldinho and Neymar to take Grafite, Luiz Fabiano, Elano... That 2010 team was horrible too, but not for lack of options, they had a lot of good active players who could play in the Brazilian team... unlike today where there aren't many options for different players... It was good that you reminded me of Dunga, I had completely erased him from my memory lol

Argentina VS Canada
Copa America 2024 starts tomorrow. Argentina and Canada will meet in the first match tomorrow. Argentina is a much stronger team than Canada, Argentina are currently in great form. Argentina will have a 90% chance of winning the first match tomorrow.

Argentina and Brazil are the favorite teams in the Copa America. I always support the Argentina team in my heart. Argentina won the last Copa America, hopefully they can do well in this tournament. I predict Argentina will make it to the final this season as well and be champions.

The first match will be played tomorrow and of course it will make us confused between choosing to watch the euro or the copa later because I see there are some matches in the euro and the copa have a very small time difference, but apart from it all of course at least the international matches that are being played at the moment make us have the option to watch football after all the current leagues have been completed,  the match against Canada will of course be a crucial match for Argentina, because indeed winning and losing in the first match will affect their mentality and confidence later.

Currently, Argentina of course has a mission to defend the status of the defending champion of copa america  this year, although the first match will be played against Canada, but I think Canada is not an opponent that is indeed difficult to defeat by Messi and his friends, I personally hope that Argentina will not underestimate Canada  although indeed in terms of team quality, of course, Argentina is far above the current level of Canada.

Argentina status in the Copa America this time as defending champions, they also still have some of their best players such as Messi and De Maria. Even though Argentina is very much the favorite as the team that will win this match, Argentina coach Lionel Scaloni will not underestimate his opponent, he will field his best squad to prevent any surprises that Canada could present. Victory is always the initial target before a match, Argentina, which has a stronger squad than Canada, will try to take the initiative to attack at the start of the match in order to get an easy victory over its opponent.

Argentina will try to defend the title it won in Brazil. While their rivals will try to do their best to avenge their defeat in the final at the previous Copa America, The defeat to Argentina meant that Brazil failed to win the title in front of its supporters.

I think Argentina will win over Canada. Argentina's performance with the composition of players brought by Scaloni will not experience serious problems. However, things we don't expect can happen, but the percentage of them happening is very small.


Argentina could be chosen as the favorite to win the Copa America, but Brazil, I still don't have a strong reason to include them as the team that will reach the final round until now even though tomorrow my mind will change.
There are still Uruguay and Chile who can be considered to reach the final.

Copa America, the oldest tournament in football history, is going to start with tomorrow's match. Former champions Argentina and Canada will meet in the first match of the 2024 Copa America. The first match of the 48th edition of the Copa America is going to be held in Georgia, USA.

Canada is weaker than Argentina but they should not be taken lightly because you remember the FIFA World Cup. Where Argentina team was defeated by Saudi Arabia in their first match. Argentina even turned the team around with education and returned home as world champions in that tournament. This year's Argentina team will have two experienced players, Lionel Messi and Di Maria. Moreover, the Argentina team has more young up-and-coming players who have been playing very well in various clubs. The way the Albiceleste have set up their team, they will probably do their best to win this year's Copa America title even perform accordingly on the field.

I think all the attention will be mostly on Messi, because he is the player that draws the most attention around the world, I am even sure that those in Europe will be awake to watch the first match, some people think that football in South America is of a lower level than in Europe, but basically the greatest and most outstanding players in recent times have also been from South America, and history has always shown that, when we compare titans like Brazil and Argentina they are the best representation of all of South America, but at this moment, almost many countries have raised their level of football and are already ready for high level competitions, I hope to see good surprises in this Copa America.

I am struck by the statements made by some Players like Dinho, who said he did not want to watch any of the Brazilian national team's games This is serious and if someone like him says it , wow , it means that there is something that does not fit well.

Few hours left the opening match of Copa America 2024 between Argentina vs Canada, the first match most crucial for both team between Argentina or Canada to make their second or third matches easily and qualify to next round.
Argentina will full support by their fans as host of teams but some time could be huge pressure when getting inconsistency performance or difficulty for scoring goals in the early match.

Lionel Messi will be most expected players waiting by fans and they want to see his magician today will score goal or make assists for the first Copa America match, actually not really support with match playing in my region because too early morning and we have work but I will spend my time watching Lionel Messi appearance for the opening match.

Today is the big day for the start of the Copa America
I'm betting on Argentina to win, with the score 3x0
I think they'll get a good win, with a goal from Messi and they won't concede to Canada (although I liked the level of soccer from the Canadian team in the World Cup)

The only thing that could get in the way of Argentina is nervousness of the first match in a competition, but I don't think that will happen today

This is a group stage game and that is why not everything is so bad for Canada, bookmakers currently estimate Argentina's chances as 1.31, Canada's chances as 9.80 and 5.60 remains for a draw. Given that Argentina are almost guaranteed to make the playoffs, I wouldn't risk betting on them winning today, although if it were a playoff or an important game I would say that 1.31 looks profitable.

The first half between Argentina vs Canada was very tight, there were so many threats from both teams in the first half, but it didn't produce any results. Likewise with the second half, but in the second half there were more attacks by Argentina and more dominant in possession, resulting in 1 goal for Argentina through a kick given by Julian Alvarez, and then, Lautaro Martinez managed to score a goal with a nutmeg to the Canada Goalkeeper through an assist provided by Lionel Messi. The final score is 2 - 0, Congrats to Argentina!

The match result is according to people prediction that Argentina is still too strong for their opponent and without any problem they can overcomes Canada and indeed Argentina has taking initiative to attacking since the beginning of match and in the first half Argentina gets several opportunities from Mac Allister and Paredes but unfortunately they were failed to utilized those opportunities to scores and in the second half Argentina was playing more aggressive and the result is they can scores 2 goals from Álvarez and supersubs Lautaro Martínez

About Messi i can see he is performing well yesterday although he hasn't scoring yet but Messi is the creator of second goal for Argentina and for next match i am sure he will scores later
However next match in Group A between Peru vs Chile recently i have checked the odds for these teams and i can see Chile is the favourite with odds @2.20 but i don't think Peru is weak because if we see based on head to head statistics between them Peru records is more good than Chile so that's why i am thinking probably Peru can able to overcomes Chile and for betting option Peru win has high odds @3.85

You are right. Both teams were able to perform well in the first half. Argentina players had 66% ball possession. But both teams attacked a lot and tried to score. Perhaps the players of both teams managed to make 7 shots in the first half.

However, the scenario of the match changed from the beginning of the second half. In the second half we only saw the dominance of Argentina players. In the second half, Argentina's players made 12 shots, while Canada's players made only 3 shots.

Alvarez scored the first goal of the match off an assist to Mac Allister in the 49th minute and Martinez scored the second goal of the match off a Messi pass in the 88th minute. Argentina's overall gameplay was very good in this match.

The Argentina vs Canada match was very interesting. Various opportunities were created during the game. I thought Canada couldn't make a single dangerous threat, it turned out Canada was able to do it even though they didn't score a single goal.
Argentina's game against Canada made me sure they would be strong candidates to play in the final round.
Not Messi or Di Maria, but MacAllister as a player who I think played quite well.
Argentina's victory in the first match also made me win because I bet on Argentina's victory.

Just as Canada's players defended well against Argentina in the first half, if they had been able to play the same way in the second half, the match would have been very exciting and even more difficult for Argentina to win. But the Canadian team could not play well in the second half.

In the second half we saw the dominance of Argentina. And I would say it was possible because of Lionel Scaloni's mastermind. Scaloni is an excellent coach. He was able to identify Canada's weaknesses and changed Argentina's game strategy in the second half. In the second half, Argentina took the lead by scoring a goal in just 4 minutes. Even then, Team Canada could not get back on track and could not mount any strong attacks.

Argentinian players are also very hardworking. Especially the two young Argentines Alvarez and Martinez are gradually gaining experience. And now these two Argentine strikers are able to perform well.

The results of this match are in line with everyone's predictions that Argentina will win this match easily, because Argentina's current status is World Cup champions and defending Copa America champions, there is a big possibility that they can win the Copa America in a row if you look at their match against Canada. Even though they were unable to score a goal in the first half, Argentina managed to score a goal in the second half. If you look at Canada's last match, they were able to hold France to a draw, one of the teams favored to win the Euro trophy. But against Argentinya apparently he was unable to withstand Argentina's deadly attack. Argentina's win makes my bet a win. :D

The Copa America is not as popular as the Euro Cup, plus the event is close to the Euro Cup so the Copa America's prestige is less popular. However, I think the Copa America cup is also very interesting to watch because the games of the teams competing in the Copa America are very competitive and there will be lots of surprises.

What a good performance from Argentina, I didn’t watch the match because I didn’t have time to watch it, before the match I knew that Argentina would win the match but I was thinking that Canada could also score a goal in the game but as the game goes on Canada is unable to score a goal in the match, I love the way Argentina is performing in this league their first game they win without any stress and that show the remaining teams that Argentina is ready for this competition, Argentina misses a lot of chances most especially from Messi but that didn’t affect the team because they win the match and secure 3 points from the match.

Argentina has many talented young players like England and they know how to use those players to win games, unlike England that doesn’t have a good coach that will lead them and make the team performance look good, the remaining teams should get ready for this tournament because with this kind of performance, I see with Argentina after watching the highlights of the match Argentina is going to win the title, but let wait and see the remaining team's performance to judge if they can compete against Argentina.

The result was as expected, victory for Argentina (favorite for the tournament title)... Today we have Peru Vs Chile... I have no idea who will win this game, since both teams have been playing badly... in the last matches Chile has lost 3,... while Peru has lost 4 in the last 5 matches... maybe I should bet on a draw?

Yes Argentina won 2-0 against Canada in the first match of the 2024 Copa America tournament.Those who are used to watching Argentina play might be very happy that their favorite team won against a weak team in the first match of this season.I have been a fan of football for a long time and I have been supporting Argentina ever since I watched football. Argentina football team has been performing very well recently especially they are the champions of the 47th edition of the Copa America.

There was a time when everyone trusted Messi and Di Maria the most in the Argentina team but now their thinking has changed. The Argentina team has several young striker players such as MacAllister, Lautaro Martinez, Paulo Dybala and several others. Their performances are worth watching and they are very promising players.

I also support Argentina team, I enjoyed the whole game today. It was a good competition between the two teams today. Canada played quite well as a weak team against a strong team like Argentina which should be appreciated by the Canadian players.

Argentina players played very well today. But Argentina's players missed a few easy goals. Argentina's best player Lionel Messi also missed two easy goals. Both teams were level till halftime. Argentina eventually won 2-0. Congratulations to Argentina for winning the first match.

The quality of the players owned by Argentina is of course the difference in the match, although indeed Canada plays by relying on speed to be able to destroy Argentina defense, but Argentina more dominant game tactics relying on possession are actually more effective in destroying the solid defense built by Canada throughout the match, Argentina who did get resistance from Canada has shown us how mentality is What they have is very worthy of being the favorite to be the champion, indeed against Canada is still the beginning of Argentina long journey in american Copa but I think Argentina has everything needed to be able to win the Copa again this year.

Canada was indeed able to create several chances so that Martinez had to make a save so that the goal was not conceded, but in my opinion the final finish is still a weakness of Canada at this time, Argentina who is indeed inclined to apply possession as their game scheme, turned out to be quite effective in confining the solid defense owned by Canada in the match.

Argentina Football team performed very well in today match against Canada team . I think Canada team should polish them and they work on their weaknesses, otherwise they will be eliminated . Argentina team did 2 goals and in comparison, Canada team could not do a single goal. Álvarez did first goal of match at the minutes of 49 , his goal is my favorite goal and he is my favorite player because his past performance is very well.Martínez did second goal of match at the minutes of 88 . Argentina shots were 19 while the shots of Canada team were 10. Argentina shots on target were 9 but Canadian shots on target were only 2. The Passes of Argentina team were very brilliant and they hit very well and they were deserving candidates for the win . Their body language was of winners and they did goal confidently . The pass accuracy of Argentina team was good and they were good in all things and that's why they won the match easily by 2-0.

The opening match of the Copa America between Argentina versus Canada ended as expected, with defending champion Argentina managing to beat Canada with a score of 2-0. Argentina two winning goals were contributed by Alvarez and Martinez, but Messi name remained the main highlight in the match. Messi was once again still very influential on Argentina overall game, even though he didn't score a goal, Messi made a clear contribution with one assist. Meanwhile, Messi has again set an individual record, he is the player with the most appearances in the Copa America, and has played in 7 edition since 2007.

On the other hand, personally I think Argentina will be able to defend the Copa America trophy, while Brazil and Uruguay really deserve to be called teams challenging for the trophy. With the victory over Canada, Argentina started their journey calmly, without any worries about their strength. The depth of Argentina squad is currently very even in every line, only Brazil is closest to them in that regard. We hope that Argentina can face Brazil or Uruguay in the final, that would be an ideal match.

There is no doubt about that, in fact I love watching teams like the USA and Canada, because they are countries that have invested a lot in their football and in their way of doing things better, but between these two for me the winner will undoubtedly be Argentina, there is no doubt about that, of course anything can happen, but come on, in Argentina they have Messi and for me he is very influencing, because at any moment he can score a goal, and his team knows it, also I think everyone will try to touch the ball to him so he can score goals, he is a player who is very good in every sense.

The score should have been at least 4-0 for Argentina but Messi missed 2 clear chances to score and it's very rare to see him missing twice from clear goal chance. However, Argentina looked like a world champion team and if Brazil won't show up with a great football , I think they will also win Copa America once again.

Today Peru vs Chile should be a game where both teams score right ? even if Peru has one of the worst teams in Copa America , I'm sure they will find their way to score at least once because Chile has a great team capable of winning tonight.  ;D

I missed this game because of the time difference, the game was played past midnight and I forgot to set my alarm for it. But I have watched Argentina play in the friendlies leading to this competition and they looked even sharper than they were in the world cup that they won. There is this confidence that they play with and even without Lionel Messi, they look very dangerous because of how they play as a team. Just as England with all the talented players are still failing to impress because they do not play as a team, if Brazil do not play as a team, with all their talented players they will not get to the finals of the competition.

A beautiful start for Argentina, only by beating Chile in the second match will make Argentina ensure their safe place in the knockout rounds. On the other hand, I think Canada is unlucky to be in the same group as Argentina, Chile and Peru, apart from Argentina, Chile and Peru are also teams being considered in CONMEBOL. I can confirm that Canada will not progress to the next round and will be the bottom team in Group A later. The next match will start today, still from group A, it is the Peru - Chile match.

If we have to predict Copa America's results, I'm going to risk saying the leader of Group A is going to be Argentina, Group B is going to be Mexico, Group C is going to be Uruguay and Group D is going to be Brazil. I think the way the national teams were splitted among the groups let the strongest ones pretty comfortable to move ahead to the next stages without big challenges.

It would be more interesting if those main teams were on the same group, so some secondary national teams would have more chances of reaching further stages of the competition. In the end, the favorite candidate for winning Copa America must be Argentina, considering the performance of all those teams since the last World Cup of 2022 in Qatar.

Some surprises are welcome, though, and will please gamblers who prefer betting on high odds games to multiply their funds considerably in a single shot.

Argentina team managed to defeat Canada team in the first match. As a result, the confidence of the players of Argentina will increase. Naturally, the Argentine team is the favorite for this year's Copa America title. If the players are confident, Argentina will win this year's Copa America title.

The other two teams in Group A are Peru and Chile. Both these teams are not very strong. If Argentina's players are confident, Argentina will win easily in all the matches in the group stage. Especially Alvarez and Martinez will try their best to perform well in the next match.

I've actually not taken my time to check each of the groups in the ongoing Copa America tournament just like I've done in the ongoing UEFA Euros Championship and that's because i consider the European tournament a much bigger one than the South American competition. In the very early hours of today Argentina defeated Canada in their first game of the tournament and while I consider other teams in the tournament as serious contenders to win the the Copa America, I think the trophy will be won by either of Brazil or Argentina. For Brazil, they have arguably the most talented team in the tournament but their manager isn't a very experienced one while for Argentina, they also possess a very strong team which includes 8 times Balon D'or winner Lionel Messi so to me it's a trophy for any of the two teams.

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Chile team is going to face Peru today in the second match of Group A. It is very difficult for me to pick a favorite team in this match. Because both groups seem to me to be almost equally strong. I have checked the match statistics between these two teams. Both the teams have won three matches each in the last 6 head-to-head matches. So it is very difficult to predict which team will win today's match. However, after seeing the squads of the two teams at the last moment, I will decide to place the bet.

The Peru team has managed to remain unbeaten in their last 5 matches. However, in these matches, Peru faced relatively weak opponents. That's why I can't consider Peru as favorites against Chile despite their good past record.

Well if it were to be some years back then the Chilean team would have also been a strong contender for the title but as it's stands now I think their team isn't that strong anymore as the likes of Alexis Sanchez and atoru Vidal have all lost their strides and no big name is on the squad that can make the team stand out, I think they were the ones who have given the Argentina team a real problem when it comes to this trophy.

Messi and his colleagues started their campaign impressively at the 2024 Copa America, Argentina managed to secure full points over Canada, this victory confirms that they really deserve to be favorites. Argentina has all the attributes needed to defend the title, Messi presence will be the difference in every match, and Messi is the source of confidence for the Argentine National Team. In Group A, Argentina seems very dominant over the Peruvian, Chilean and Canadian national teams, in my opinion they will advance easily to the next round. Meanwhile, even though Messi is 36 years old, he is still the foundation of his team. If Argentina can win the Copa America trophy again, Messi chances of strengthening Argentina to the 2026 World Cup are quite big. However, winning the Copa America trophy is not easy, because Brazil also has frightening strength.

If the seeded teams are in the same group, it will be uninteresting for the next phase and it is likely that the final match will also only be a match between seeded teams v non-seeded teams. After all, with these seeded teams in different groups, it will make the next phase more interesting and will certainly make the final match will also be interesting if it brings together Argentina v Brazil. After all, if the final match only brings together seeded teams v non-seeded teams, then the prediction will be easy because of course the seeded team will certainly win. Therefore,  I have previously said that there are only two teams that are strong  candidates for the Copa America trophy,they are Argentina and Brazil. Although indeed, other teams also have a chance, but other teams do not have as good a chance as Argentina and Brazil.

Lionel Messi become the creativities of two goals scoring by Julian Alvarez and Lutaro Martinez after Argentina defeating Canada on the opening match of Copa America 2024, he played well on the first match although he miss two great opportunities for scoring goals after face one by one with Canada goal keeper. Argentina more dominance since first half until second half but many great attempt failed for scoring goals from Lionel Messi, Julian Alvarez until second half match Lutaro Martinez got bigger great opportunity but blocked by Canada goal keeper has impressive performance with several crucial saves.

I think talking about the winner too early just winning the first match its not guarantee get easily on second matches or knock out round match, Argentina need proof them self of next match and keep consistent take opportunity should be goals.

Lionel Messi played a significant part in ensuring Argentina emerged victorious against Canada in the inaugural match of the 2024 Copa America, by setting up two goals for Julian Alvarez and Lautaro Martinez. Despite his commendable performance, Messi faltered twice against the Canadian custodian, an error which might come back to haunt him. The first half underscored Argentina's superiority; however, most attempts by Messi and Alvarez were futile owing to the adversary goalkeeper who thwarted their efforts with valor, thereby keeping Canada in the game.

Yet triumph in the initial contest does not ensure a smooth sail in the subsequent games. What Argentina requires is unrelenting consistency, coupled with making the most out of every chance that comes their way, only by this can they assure advancement to the following rounds. Their ability to keep their eyes set on the prize and preserve their present state will be pivotal determinants as to whether Argentina emerges triumphant in this competition or not.

After the first game, it is hard to predict the winner of the tournament, but the world champions are favorites IMHO. Argentina has such an organized team, the unity in the team is unbelievable and it is like all of them are putting in their best for the star man Messi to win another international trophy.

There are also other tough teams that would trouble Argentina, like Brazil and Columbia. Vini Jr for Brazil also has something to prove in the international stage, he has been brilliant with Real Madrid, so now is the time to bring that form home, to his country, it's going to be an exciting tournament to watch.

Argentina has always been my favourite to win the Copa America, and their first game performance has nothing to do with it. They are so United and they play as a team. They're also very disciplined. The first goal they scored against Canada was a classic team effort, it was almost similar to Di Maria's goal against France in the World Cup final.
Argentina weren't at their best yesterday but they still managed to put in a decent performance against a resilient Canada.
Some people have already written them off, but the joke's on those people. Remember how they started in the World Cup and kept getting better as the tournament progressed? That's how it would be this time around.

Indeed that's exactly what many people were afraid for, to start the competition with a shameful defeat like what happened in Qatar World Cup when Saudi Arabia defeated them and their fans mocked their players and asked where is Messi.
In this version of Copa America, Argentina were able to defeat Canada by two goals to zero which is a very good start regardless of the way they played and their readiness for this match.
Canada after all isn't a top team so they should take cautions later.

Peru vs Chile match is being played today and both the teams are doing a lot of attacking but neither team is able to score successfully. The game is about to end at half time but both teams are attacking a lot but neither team is able to stop the ball in the opponent's net. Although Chile have the ball most of the time so maybe if they can attack more strongly they may be able to score against Peru. As we have seen the first match of Copa America was played between Argentina and Canada and the Argentine team won. In the points table, Argentina team is at the top position with three points. We know Argentina as the strongest team in Group A. And if Chile can win against Peru in today's match, they will definitely be able to occupy a good position in the points table and collect points. But according to the style of play of today's match, today's match is also likely to be a draw between the two teams.

Supporting one of the teams in a big tournament like Copa America has become a must for many football fans because they support teams like Argentina because of their game and other factors.
For Copa America, there is no specific team that I support including Argentina, but I like how Argentine players respect figures like Lionel Messi and other senior players.

Young players like the names you mentioned have good playing qualities, but I admire all of them for respecting Messi and Di Maria. MacAllister, Lautaro and Dybala, if judged against what Di Maria currently has, are very different because Di Maria is no longer young, so it is natural that young players have more value.

by the way, Chile failed to get full points vs Peru because they only played 0-0.

2-0 is exactly the score that should be when the odds are 1.31 (as was the case with Argentina), so this is the expected result. Nevertheless, Messi missed a couple of 100% chances and was criticized (there were many memes on the topic of “Lukaku moment”). It’s unpleasant, but I think all football players are used to haters and the fickle mood of fans. In any case, the real games will begin only in the playoffs; I don’t think that any of the favorites will be eliminated in the group stage.

Chile was the most aggressive in this match, but in the last minute the result of the two teams was zero. In particular, Chile had 11 kicks aimed at the goal post in this match, and Peru had 7. But unfortunately neither team was able to score in this game, so it was a very competitive game. But these two teams lacked any particular star to score, although a striker is definitely needed to click from the D-box. 
But the Peru and Chile teams lack experienced strikers, as the ball reached the goal post but lacked a striker on the finish line which resulted in no goals.

The match was so tough to the extent that Chile dominate almost every aspect of the game but unfortunately Peru didn't give a chance to them to ride on them, what you said about their lacking of experience striker is actually true, in this Copa America competition I only have hope for only two teams which I believe the have done it before and can still repeat it again are Argentina and Brazil, if any team win the tournament it always shocked me because the both teams are well recognised and have good play with good record, is even when I saw a notification I noticed they have Started playing, it not popular like Euro that I noticed a month before it begins.

Neither Chile nor Peru is strong enough. And these teams cannot be considered favorites for this year's Copa America. Argentina is the favorite for this year's Copa America. Still, I will keep teams like Brazil, USA and Uruguay on the list. However, other than Brazil, the other teams are not very strong.

The Chile vs Peru match was not that exciting. The match was a goalless draw. Both teams tried not to concede goals. However, the performance of Chile's players was relatively good in the match. Chile players had 65% of the ball possession. and was able to make several powerful attacks. If Sanchez could have performed a little better, maybe the Chilean team could have won the match.

A really decent start by Argentina. 3.38 xG is telling us a lot also.  :)  This must be one of the most productive matches for them lately. When it comes to Messi I don't think he deserves to be criticized harshly for the chances he wasted. I liked his general performance. He created big chances and made an assist too. He is still doing quite good for his age.

There are still a couple of days remaining for Brazil also to start. Costa Rica never managed to beat them. Brazil should be able to make a good start.

Here is their Copa America squad:

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It is still good enough to reach the finale despite some absent players. It is nice to see Savio being called to national duty also.  :)  He had a great season and it looks like Dorival Júnior didn't overlook that.

Argentina is one of the favorite teams to probably win the Copa America, that's reasonable, because they managed to win the 2022 WC, that's why. Having a good team composition in each place is also Argentina's current advantage.

BTW, I don't agree with you who said Peru & Chile are not strong teams, they are the 2 teams being considered, if it was US & Panama maybe I could agree. Look at how the Peru - Chile match went and how it turned out, they didn't want to give their opponents full points against each other, which makes Argentina the current top of the standings, but in Argentina's second meeting they have to face Chile, we don't know whether there will be any surprises in that match or not.

The team in Group A has completed their first match at the moment, Argentina who won over Canada is currently at the top of the standings with 3 points, while Chile and Peru are ranked 2nd and 3rd with one point respectively after the two faced each other and got a draw, Canada is still 0 points so far after losing to Argentina, In my opinion, the three teams in the group certainly do not have great potential to be able to beat Argentina, so it is likely that Argentina will have an easy journey to qualify for the next round, Peru and Chile are not teams that are indeed strong in terms of player quality but compared to Peru and Canada, it seems that Chile has a greater chance to qualify for the next round with Argentina.

Both teams drew in the match and both deserve 1 point, in my opinion group A is the least interesting group to watch because it will indeed be more dominant dominated by Argentina, as well as other teams that may also not present an exciting match because indeed the quality of the team is very low and it is difficult to be able to display an exciting and surprising match,  In my opinion, so far the excitement of watching the Copa is when the competition has entered the knockout round or playoffs.

People have easily forgotten that this was the first match of the tournament and the two teams even the Canadians who were deemed the underdogs were supposed to be super competitive most especially as it is their debuting competition. Canada wasn’t or isn’t like the other South American countries they look strong of recent and they are building on that momentum to this tournament.

Argentina coming out to pull a win is something I just like about the team, to me they don’t even have they beat Argentina players like we used to witness in the past but the team togetherness and determination has definitely been what has been keeping them in some games. I think it will be hard to see them not winning this competition

I think the Peru and Chile teams are not strong enough to win the Copa America title. And that's what I felt after watching their performance yesterday. They played to draw the match. Both teams tried to attack after keeping the defense tight. This is why we don't see any goals in this match.

But how strong these two teams are can be understood by looking at the performances of Peru and Chile against Argentina. If these two teams can get points against Argentina then they have a chance to qualify for the next round. But I don't think Peru and Chile can score any points against Argentina.

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The match between Ecuador and Venezuela is going to be tight soon. It is very difficult to make predictions about the matches of these teams. Even so, since I am going to bet, I have checked all the statistics of the past matches of these two teams.

In the last matches between these two teams -
Venezuela won - 1 match
Ecuador won -1 matches
Draws - 3 matches.

Ecuador have also won 3 and lost 2 of their last 5 matches. Ecuador lost against Argentina and Italy. and wins against Guatemala, Bolivia and Honduras respectively.

Venezuela, on the other hand, have failed to win even one of their last 5 matches. Lost two matches and drew three matches. Venezuela drew with Ecuador, Peru and Guatemala.

To me it seems safe to bet on a draw in this match. The match is more likely to be a goalless draw.

It seems that victory tends to favor Ecuador, where the odds displayed are currently around @ 2.07 for Ecuador, while Venezuela is around 4.60, while for a draw @ 3.05. But if you want to bet, of course you need further consideration, where Venezuela could act beyond expectations by giving Ecuador a defeat.

Meanwhile, if you look at the composition of the teams in Group B, it looks like Mexico will win the group, the runner-up position will be closely contested by Ecuador and Venezuela, while I don't think Jamaica is the favorite to advance to the next round. The Ecuador vs Venezuela match will take place soon, and the lineup has been confirmed.

On the other hand, for the other group B match, which pits Mexico against Jamaica, I think it is quite easy to predict, where Mexico really deserves to be the favorite to secure full points. Apart from that, it looks like there will be a lot of goals scored in this match. Let's see how the two Group B matches go.

Well I don't know about Peru but I think Chile can always rustle up something against Argentina because they and Argentina do go back along way although for now their performance isn't that much but that still doesn't clear out the fact that Chile can definitely stand up with Argentina and actually drag some points with them. But although their game with Peru was indeed poor as you stated but that too can change when they face off with Argentina.

Mexico is the favourite team in this group and they could eventually get the highest score. They can be the first in the list if the result of Ecuador and Venezuela continues to be 0 - 0.
Their match few hours later against Jamaica should not be a big deal for them.
In the other groups you can imagine the winners except Brazil where their players will have hard times against the other 3 teams.

Mexico latest matches results is not run well because they were suffering 2 losing streak from big teams Brazil and Uruguay but indeed we cannot used these matches results as the reference to predict the outcomes of Mexico upcoming matches because probably Mexico doesn't putting all of their efforts for friendlies matches
However regarding the match against Jamaica i can see Mexico is the favourite with odds @1.48 and i think i have to agree with you because most likely Mexico will gets easy win from this match especially Mexico is still unbeated from Jamaica in the last 5 meetings so i think Mexico can able to overcomes Jamaica without any trouble but i don't think Jamaica can lost with big scores from Mexico because Jamaica recent matches results also looks impressive and for betting option i think put the money on Mexico win is safe bets although the odds is not high but in my opinion that's acceptable

The Copa América is a very different competition from the World Cup and it seems to me that most people think that in the Copa América there are only Argentina and Brazil, so they are placing Argentina or Brazil as winners of this Copa América, because they are not Looking at the history of achievements in this event, I've seen people say for example that Chile has no chance of winning this Copa América, let's look at Chile in the past:


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So even though Chile had its first game without being able to score a goal and it ended in a draw and playing against another team considered weak, I'm talking about Peru, still in this competition, Chile has a chance of winning the cup. The same case applies to Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay. Now I don't understand why some people are complaining about Argentina's performance given that in the last 2 years most of Argentina's games have been characterized by favoring good defense and being able to score 1 to 2 goals, there are rare cases in which they have scored more than 2 goals in serious competitions, that's why I don't see any reason for surprise regarding this game they played against Canada


In recent years Mexico has weakened a lot, I don't see them improving. I don't know what is happening with Mexican football, they beat Jamaica in a game in which they only managed to score 1 goal and they are not at the top of the table because Venezuela won their game against Ecuador and managed to score 2 goals, thanks to the 2 goals that Venezuela managed to score that now they lead the table

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In my opinion in this group, Venezuela is the strongest and will finish at the top, in recent months Venezuela has been improving a lot, just see that Venezuela is in position 4 in the table for qualifying for the South American World Cup, this shows that They have improved a lot, while Mexico I don't see their performance improving

Even though Venezuela won and was at the top of Group B for the time being but I think that does not reflect their true performance or as an illustration of where they will be moored, because if you actually see the match, what made Venezuela win was because of the red card that Ecuador received in the 22nd minute, so that Ecuador gradually lost control of the game and it give Venezuela plenty of room to score goals.

If Ecuador doesn't get that red card and still plays with 11 men, I think the story would be different.

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I expected the match to be a draw. But Venezuela managed to win this match. I lost my money in the match. I need to be more careful about betting on these matches. Otherwise there is a possibility of losing more money.

I considered the Ecuador team as the favourite. But in just 22 minutes of the match, the scenario of the match changed due to Enner Valencia getting a red card for Ecuador's streak. It is very difficult to perform well and win with 10 players. However, at the end of the first half, the Ecuador team was leading 1-0. But Ecuador's players could not perform well in the second half. Cadiz in the 64th minute and Bello's goal in the 10th minute gave Venezuela a 2-1 lead and eventually won the match 2-1.

Chile  football team gave their best to do the goal against Peru but it could not do any single goal and both teams got 1 point. I think Peru team defend very well because Chile attacked for many times but Peru goalkeeper didn't lose hope and stoped every kick and  Now Peru is at the number 2 in the group stage and the  Chile has 3rd position in the  Copa America group stage. But We saw last match of  Argentina that was incredulous and I can't forget this match. Argentina Football team is in full rhythm and they deserve this Copa America Cup and they could win this Cup and they are favorite in this World Cup . They have legends in their team and that is secret of their success and respect.

I agree about the difficulty to play with only 10 players while your opponent has a full squad especially if the red card happened since the beginning of the match. Meanwhile, Ecuador was leading with 1 goal until the 64th minute although playing with 10 players then they failed to maintain it and conceded two goals in ten minutes and lost the game. They would better blocked the game when they were leading but they failed.
Even though Venezuela is leading Group B, but Mexico is expected to get that spot by the last round.

The red card obtained in the match of course changed the direction of the game of the two teams, Ecuador was actually able to perform quite well and even they were still able to give resistance to Venezuela even though they lost the number of players to Venezuela, the match was quite fierce before the red card occurred so what you said was indeed quite true, it is very clear that Ecuador can still keep up with Venezuela game in the match even though Venezuela is quite Dominating the game, I also think that if the red card had not happened, of course it is likely that Ecuador would have been able to beat Venezuela.

Losing player in the match made Ecuador have to be more dominant in defense after Venezuela managed to equalize the score and look for a draw as the final result of the match, but indeed the superiority in the number of players from Venezuela was able to broke the solid defense of Ecuador so that in the end Bello goal in the 74th minute became the winning goal for Venezuela as well as getting their first 3 points in group B.

With Argentina as their opponent, Canada thinks it is natural that Argentina will win this match. But if you had watched the first 45 minutes of the game, you might have found it difficult to say whether Argentina could score in this match. Canada performed well in the first 45 minutes and were quite active in their defensive positions but Argentina took over the next 45 minutes. In the next 45 minutes, Argentina scored two goals in just a few minutes and these two goals sealed the victory for Argentina. Since the team against Argentina is Canada, I think most gamblers bet on Argentina in this match and most gamblers probably won this match.

In fact, it's just round 1 but you @Slow death say Venezuela is the strongest? For me it's very inappropriate. It's true what @abhiseshakana said, if Ecuador continues to play with 11 players until full time, then it is very possible that Ecuador will win the match. Because, even though Ecuador played with 10 players from the 22nd minute, but in reality Ecuador also managed to score first in the 40th minute, while Venezuela was just able to score a goal in the second half. However, even though I admit that Ecuador is still said to be good, but I cannot assume that they will be the strongest and will finish at the top, like you said about Venezuela. LOL! Because after all, in this group it is clear, I think Venezuela, Mexico and Ecuador have a chance to compete strongly to finish in the top two, and not only about Venezuela.

Yes you are right. Little did we know when we were enjoying the first match of the Copa America between Argentina and Canada that a weak Canadian team was going up against a strong Argentina. In the field game we saw that the Canada team attacked Argentina's defense a lot even as they tried very hard to goal. However, their attempts, that is, the short ones taken at the goal of Argentina, missed the target and went out.

Then, however, the Argentine team came back to the game better and goal in the end to win. But they proved that Canada is not a very weak team with the match against Argentina. Every player of Team Canada performed brilliantly even as they made Argentina team sweat.

Tomorrow we will see two matches of the Copa America.
United States vs. Bolivia
and Uruguay vs. Panama

These two matches are going to be more interesting.

I was looking for a thread for Copa America and I am glad I found it. Unfortunately the hype around Copa America is not the same as the Euro. Is this because in Copa America have only a few big teams? Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Chille these are only a few I have in mind.

Apart from the four teams you mentioned, several other big teams are playing in the Copa America. Uruguay, Costa Rica and Paraguay are not considered weak teams. However, compared to the Euro, there are very few quality teams in the Copa America. At the end of the day, Argentina and Brazil are the favorites for the Copa America title. And one of these two teams will win the Copa America title. Other parties are far behind.

I watched several matches of Copa America live. Apart from Argentina, I don't think any other team's performance is as organized and strong. More powerful gameplay is required to win the title. Also the squad needs talented players. To be honest, the value of Copa America is decreasing day by day compared to the Euro.

The result of the Ecuador game against Venezuela last night was a very surprising one to most football fans who know about the capabilities of both footballing nations. Ecuador was the first to score and was even controlling the game even after Enner Valencia was shown the red card in the 22nd minute of the game. It was towards the end of the second half that the Venezuelan players saw the need to utilize their advantage of having more number if players in the team and their quest for a good result was granted because the 10 man Ecuador couldn't keep up again.
It's still not over for Ecuador who still have two to play in the group stage of the tournament they face Jamaica on Wednesday before playing against Mexico five days later in their final group stage game.

The biggest teams in the world, the best players, the best stadiums are in Europe... it's normal for the Euro to have much more demand than the Copa America. There is also the importance of the cup, European teams give a lot of value to this championship, while in the Americas what matters most is the World Cup.

But even at that you still have to give them atleast some credit for actually doing well atleast for holding up the goal advantage, one thing is to score and another is to actually defend the goal till the 90th minutes, even if the opposite team has the higher and upper hand. No doubt that Venezuela are not the best team in terms of their game play performance but they have achieved what most minor teams cannot in their group and that's finishing top.

I'd add Columbia to the list, they are a good team as well. You are correct that there is more hype around the Euros than the Copa America, apart from having better and more popular teams, another reason is European football has a better PR, and i am pretty sure more people want to watch the Euros than the Copa America.

If the two tournaments were not going on simultaneously and if it is only the Copa America, then there would have been better hype around it, but as things stand, the Euros just has to swallow it.

USA - Bolivia , game of more than 5 goals ? If Germany won their opening game in their home country with 5-1 against Scotland , I'm thinking that USA can do the same against Bolivia and actually score 4-5 goals against them.

Odds are very appealing at around @8 per 5 goals or @4 for 4 goals which is pretty amazing if you ask me.

I don't think it a hype, The Europa Cup competition has more notable teams playing in the competition than we do have in the Copa America Cup competition, so no doubt that's why it's hiding the Copa America which is on going right now and we all know that if we start making mention of teams involved in that competition, it quite clear that we have better playing in the Europa Cup competition.

USA vs Bolivia

USA — Turner; Scally, Richards, Ream, Robinson; Adams, Reyna, McKennie; Weah, Balogun, Pulisic(C).

Bolivia — Viscara; Sagredo, Medina, Haquin(C), Sagredo; Fernández, Saucedo, Villamil, Justiniano, Menacho; Miranda

Here we go for group first match, USA are likely to succeed in the game because the are have a good record over Bolivia, at second minute of the match time USA have just score their first goal of the tournament so let's see what will happen at the end of the month.

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Team USA dominated and won the last two matches against Bolivia. So naturally the USA team was considered as the favorite in this match as well. The USA team is also a relatively strong team. USA also drew 1-1 in their last friendly match against strong opponents like Brazil.

USA players dominated from the start of today's match. They did a lot of attacks. On the other hand, Bolivia's players played defensively. Since Bolivia's squad is not strong enough, Bolivia wanted to share the points by playing a defensive strategy. But at the moment the USA team is leading 2-0. In the first half, the USA team got a 2-0 lead with the goals of Pulisic and Balogun. Team USA cruises to an easy win.

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Shortly after, the Uruguayan team will play against Panama. Although Uruguay is a renaissance team, this team is a bit off form right now. However, Uruguay is a much stronger team than Panama. I have never seen a Panama team win against big and renowned teams. So I consider the Uruguay team as the favorite in today's match and I bet on the victory of Uruguay.

Uruguay's squad has talented players like Nunez, Valverde, Olivera and Araujo. Uruguay has a strong enough squad. And in the last friendly match, Uruguay won 4-0 against Mexico. Hopefully, Uruguay will be able to maintain this consistency.

USA was favourite in this match and they didn't fail their supporters by beating Bolivia with two goals to none. USA totally dominated the game and Bolivia couldn't succeed in threatening their goal.

I wouldn't go for such bet even if Brazil or Argentina was playing in it. European competitions tend to have more goals scored than other competitions in other parts of the world. I would pick 2 or 3 goals maximum.

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Damn it took 85 minutes and 4 times of heart attack waiting him to score :o

Today there is the debut of the Brazilian team against Costa Rica, I believe it will be an easy game and Brazil will dominate the match from start to finish, I'm even thinking about placing a small bet on this game, it will probably be easy money (I hope) lol

Brazil has faced Costa Rica 11 times in history, with 10 wins and 1 loss.

Yes, Brazil deserves and deserves to be seeded, if we look at the statistics of the meeting between the two teams, Brazil really dominates. Not only are there probably quite a lot of people betting on Brazil but the returns are very low.

This game is a no stress game for the Uruguayan side in terms of experience, the class of players in their , the Copa America trophies they have won ,their records outside the Copa America competition, strength to strength and when it's comes to H2H meetings, all shows that the Uruguay team is very far stronger opponent side, even for the bigger teams let alone Panama, undoubtedly Uruguay has more capacity to be the Victors in this very match today.

As expected, Uruguay managed to win this match. Uruguay players performed very well throughout the match. Panama's defense is not strong enough and the team is not experienced. The players of Uruguay used this opportunity very well. And Uruguay won the match 3-1.

Uruguay team got a 1-0 lead with Araujo's goal in just 16 minutes of the match. And at the end of the first half, Uruguay was leading by 1-0. Nunez scored the second goal of the match in the 85th minute of the second half and Matias Vina scored the third goal of the match after the 90th minute. Uruguay got a pretty easy win. Uruguay will play against Bolivia in the next match. Uruguay will win this match.

I'm going to post it here today so that in a few days I can come back and tell you that I got it right hahaha

Pay close attention to Colombia's team, I really believe they have the potential to reach the final, even though their opponents are Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay

The Colombian team is playing VERY well, and in my opinion is the best South American surprise and has a chance of going head-to-head with the strongest teams
Keep an eye out and if possible, watch the games


I'm going to focus my bets on Brazil and Colombia

With such history, it is clear that Costa Rica is in no match for Brazil since onset till date. I think this match will be like a work over for the Brazilians and an easy win because they are far stronger than Costa Rica players.

There are a lot of good players in Brazil and Vini will always want to dominate the match because he is targeting to win Ballon D'or which his performance in the tournament matters a lot. I will place my bet on Brazil to win the game so that I will make a little profit.

I think you will be lucky in this bet, where Brazil really deserves to be the favorite, the difference in squad depth means we can easily predict the outcome of the match. On paper, Costa Rica needs a miracle to create a surprise, and it looks like there will be a lot of goals scored in this match.

Even though this is a fairly easy match, it looks like Dorival Junior will still field their best squad, to mark their first win in the 2024 edition of the Copa America. Apart from that, even though Brazil has not been performing at their best recently, especially in the 2026 World Cup qualifiers, I think Vinicius and his friends will be able to show a different performance in the Copa America.

On the other hand, I hope Brazil can reach the final round, and face Argentina there. For group D, I think Brazil will be able to emerge as group winner, while second place will probably be closely contested by Colombia and Paraguay.

Brazil and Costa Rica will have their first match today, so far Brazil has always dominated the victory over Costa Rica in every international match, but for this year of course it will be difficult to say if Costa Rica will be an easy opponent for Brazil, in the few friendly matches played in the last few months, I see that Costa Rica's performance has improved a lot compared to a few years ago, currently, both teams are of course aiming for their first victory in the first match of group D, with the  first victory will of course be a crucial victory for both teams to be able to get great motivation in the next match.

So far Brazil has dominated Costa Rica but even so of course the match will be a difficult match for Brazil, I personally will bet for Brazil's victory even though many may think Costa Rica is a weak team but I think Brazil will win with a narrow score over Costa Rica, to be honest if the current Brazil squad is indeed filled with talented young squads but if we pay attention if their squad has not yet so compact to undergo an official match.

Brazil is considered one of the tournament favorite teams, they have all the attributes to win the Copa America. The opening match between Brazil versus Costa Rica seems to be going according to predictions, even though Brazil can't score many goals, the most important thing is to win. Vinicius and Rodrygo will be the mainstays on the front line, but unfortunately Neymar cannot take part this time due to injury. Betting on Brazil winning will give you a profit, in my opinion Costa Rica needs a lot of luck to beat Brazil. There are no worries if you look at the depth of Brazil squad, in fact this is an easy match for the 9-time Copa America winners. In my opinion, the opponent that is comparable to Brazil is Argentina for now in the Copa America.

Based on statistics, Brazil has always led in the last few matches but as you said the situation is a bit difficult for Brazil because Brazil has never won in 4 official matches/tournaments even 3 of them ended in defeat but in 4 friendly matches the results were not too bad 2 wins and 2 draws, so basically Brazil is unpredictable and it is possible that the two teams will draw in today's match because Costa Rica has also been playing well recently.

I just checked the betting markets on Stake.com and the sportsbook predicts Brazil will win by 2 goals or more, I'm a little surprised why the bookies are so confident in Brazil even though they win 1 - 2 goals, Brazil will still get 3 points. I suggest being more careful when betting on handicaps who knows Brazil is playing a prank ;D maybe I'll skip betting on this match or wait until the first half ends. Apart from that, we also need to check the lineup to see if Brazil plays with the main squad or mixed players.

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you were very lucky

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I expected Uruguay to win this game with some ease, because looking at the good performance that Uruguay has had in the last few games, even when playing against strong teams like Brazil and Argentina, I see Uruguay as one of the candidates to win this Copa América, Argentina and Brazil are also candidates. but in that game Uruguay scored the first goal early, then had difficulty scoring more goals, this is not a good thing mainly because the opponent was weak and still managed to score 1 goal. If Uruguay plays against the USA and they have the same performance as they did today against Panama, then Uruguay could lose in the game against the USA. congratulations for the victory


looking at the odd value in case Brazil wins

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It's such a low odds that I honestly don't see it being worth betting on Brazil's victory. but if you want to bet on Brazil, you can wait for the game to start, if the 1 half ends without any goals or in a scenario where Brazil concedes 1 goal and is losing, then the odds value will go up a lot and it might be worth betting that Brazil had won. I say this because in the last 5 games that Brazil played against Costa Rica, they won in all 5 games. Costa Rica can't beat Brazil

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This is a game in which we will see how Brazil's coach intends to organize the attacking players, because there has been a lot of criticism about the choices that Brazil's coach has made in attack when it comes to the players who will start playing.

I think that Brazil needs to find again themselves after not being that great in the last World Cup and also in the Copa America is not that they have done great.While they have won the head 2 head games against Costa Rica and I think they will win it easily too this simply is not enough for a big game like Brazil.They need to show us that they are playing football and winning in a convincing way against anyone they play,this mean they need us to show a lot of goals scored and a total domination of their games meaning they will be strong contenders for this edition of Copa America.

If some surprise result happen which is highly unlikely yet it can happen and this would firmly convince me and I believe many others that the Brazilian national team needs a real full revision of their team and coach.

Good win for Uruguay last night, nice goal by Darwin Nunez, sporting a new hairstyle :D

Argentina did a professional job in their first game. I am interested to check out Brazil tomorrow when they take on Costa Rica.

Colombia vs Paraguay

Colombia — Vargas; Muñoz, Lucumí, Sánchez, Mojica; Ríos, Lerma, Rodríguez(C), Arias, Díaz; Borré.

Paraguay — Morínigo; Velázquez, Balbuena(C), Alderete, Espinoza; Cubas, Caballero, Villasanti; Almirón, Enciso, Arce.

Here we go for group D, Colombia have a huge record ahead of Paraguay, they haven't to Paraguay in their last four meetings with two wins and two draw, can we judge today match with the previous performance? I can't really say anything because anything can happen even the euro that is going on now are full of surprises here and there, teams you know they can perform well are disappointing me. Let just see how it goes tonight.

Colombia just scored. I didn't start the game but from what I have watched so far the game has been Colombia all through. Paraguay were more direct but it's very difficult to cope with pressing like that. If Paraguay had been able to defend well and try to get a goal they might have stood a chance because they made it difficult for Colombia to break them, but they slipped up and Colombia scored with their first attempt on target.
It might turn out to be an easy win for Colombia from here.

I would really like to watch Brazil Vs Costa Rica. I expect that to be an easy win for Brazil, but with their recent form, it might not be that simple. Costa Rica is not supposed to be a tough opponent, especially for Brazil though.

Brazil shouldn't have any issue with Costa Rica unless CR plays well above what they are capable of.  Can't wait to see what the US side can do against Uruguay.  Shoukd be a tough matchup for them.  Disappointed to see the lack of theor finishing in theor 2-0 win.  They had some point blank shots they need to make if they are going to make any serious kind of run.

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I am waiting for Brazil vs Costa Rica match. This match will be exciting. I watched the last few matches of Brazil. This team is not in very good form. The squad has a lot of talented and star players. However, Brazil's performance is now very erratic due to the weak bonding between the players. I know Costa Rica is not a strong team. However, Costa Rica has the ability to share points with Brazil. And against Brazil today, Costa Rica's players will play with the aim of sharing the points.

Vini-Rodrygo-Raphina is very likely to be in Brazil's attack today. These three players are very talented but the performances of all three are erratic. Easy opportunities they miss. Moreover, Brazil's midfield is not very strong. So it will be difficult for Brazil to beat Costa Rica.

Costa Rica squad will include Sequeira, Mitchell, Vargas, Calvo, Quiros, Brenes, Galo, Lassister, Aguilera, Ugalde and Zamora.
Brazil squad in the other hand include Alisson, Danilo, Militao, Marquinhos, Arana, Guimaraes, Gomes, Paqueta, Raphinha, Rodrygo and Vinicius.

The game between Brazil and Costa Rica will start in an hour and they are expected to win. The Brazilian attack line seems to be quite solid and Brazil should score at least two goals..

Colombia team is in very good form. And in this match against Paraguay I bet Colombia to win. Colombia's players continued their winning streak. Colombia won 2-1 against Paraguay team. Colombia led 2-0 in the first half. And in the second half, Colombia kept their defense tight. Colombia are now at the top of the table with full points from this match.

I can't remember the last time I saw Colombia lose any match. Colombia team has won consecutively in the last 9 matches. In this, the Colombian team also defeated the strong teams like Spain, Italy and Brazil. That's why I bet Colombia to win today's match against Paraguay. And I won bet in this match.

We don't need to underestimate any team base on bookie odd or who's the favorite, like you said the Brazilian national side is not having a better performance in their previous games but I assure you that since this is their first game you're going to see a more flexible Brazilian team. Costa Rica can not be matched with the Brazil team which means is Brazil all the way in this encounter, no way are they going to share point. These guys are going to prove a point that they're also contenders in this tournament that is why I'll give it to the Brazil side.
Midfield of the Brazil team is weak, that I'll agree but they can manage by get the wingers to fall back more to mark their way through into the half of the opponent and ones that is done, I don't see any much spark from the Costa Rica side, it will be hard for the opposition (Costa Rica) and an easy win for Brazil, I'll go for a 3-1 win for Brazil.

Brazil vs Costa Rica

Brazil — Alisson; Danilo(C), Militao, Marquinhos, Arana; Gomes, Guimaraes, Paqueta; Raphinha, Rodrygo, Vinicius.

Costa Rica — Sequeira; Mitchell, Vargas Calvo(C); Quiros, Galo, Aguilera, Lassiter, Brenes; Zamora, Ugalde.

Here is the second game of group D Brazil vs Costa Rica, firstly Colombia have won against Paraguay which I expected it to happen because of the previous performance of Colombia, now it Brazil which I mentioned among the two teams that am expecting trophy with, with the current players that Brazil have the can beat Costa Rica straight, Brazil haven't lost a game in their last four matches and winning this will not be a problem because they have done it several times, let see how the game goes.

Brazil, even with its great team, could lose to Costa Rica, but don't doubt their potential. With this bad phase and the loss of identity of the players, they are capable of anything, even losing to teams that have no tradition or expensive players.

Ronaldinho was right, this Brazil team sucks ::)

Kinda regret that I wasted my bets and sleep time on them lol.

It sucks to have lost a bet on them, I would agree but I don't If I would say they're a terrible going by their performance today, Costa Rica just became a prime Atletico Madrid defense against Barcelona team that looks for opening and creating chances, more than 70 minutes of the to 90 minute was played in Costa Rica's final 3rd, Brazil were rather just unlucky I'd say, they were able able to create chances upon chances, with a ~10 man defense deployed by Costa Rica. On a good night this match could have been 4-5 nil victory for Brazil, maybe my opinion of the team would change before the end of the tournament, but I think I like what I've seen from them this night.

I had to sacrifice my sleeping time to watch them, due to time difference and I'm not really impressed with them drawing in that match. Well, their performance was good and you're right to say they weren't lucky, they created more chances and even had a goal by Paris Saint Germain central back, Marquinhos cancelled by VAR. The Brazilian team is filled with superstars from top clubs in Europe and shouldn't be having difficulties winning, infact they should be topping their group with goals currently, since they're the most rated in that group, I expected Brazil to win effortlessly with about over 2.5 goals. Well, i won't fail to applaud Costa Rica for parking the bus, they did a good job defensively and held Brazil till the final whistle, it's a really frustrating match for the Brazilians cause they deserved to win.

I don't think this is the first time I've seen a national side with superstars failing to perform spectacularly, so it's not that surprising. I can see their chemistry as a contributing factor though, it's not easy to integrate players from so many different clubs on a new system, etc. Then again a slight change in luck will change the narrative quickly so it's not doom and gloom for them. Hopefully, there's enough time to figure out how to play better against a defensive team so they can at least convert one goal next time. CMIIW.

Brazil has become a shits team in recent times, there is no pride from every player in Brazil, they don't show that they are a team that has won the World Cup 5x and also the Copa America several times, it's just surprising that this disappointing performance continues in the Copa America because I think they only bad in the world cup qualifiers because they didn't have enough time to build unity among the players but apparently that wasn't the case.

Brazil, which is ranked 4th FIFA, only drew with Costa Rica, ranked 55th FIFA. This is quite embarrassing for a team like Brazil and Costa Rica, which has never been able to win against Brazil in many meetings but was finally able to hold the favorite team to a draw.
Dorival Júnior had to make significant changes in the second match against Paraguay to get the three points, but their chances are still quite safe because Colombia will not take risks in the third match so against Costa Rica they will try to win the match.

But basically this is still early days and they have just finished their first match in the group phase, there are still several more matches ahead and there are many opportunities for Brazil to top the group standings and qualify for the next round.
Moreover, today match against Costa Rica also showed how great Brazil game was with complete dominance throughout the match, they dominated possession of the ball and also their attacking efforts, they had 4 good opportunities.
But in reality Costa Rica defense and pattern of play could not really be penetrated by the Brazilian players to produce goal, Patrick Sequeira as Costa Rica goalkeeper really showed how great he was at saving the goal from every dangerous shot.

Hope is that in the next two matches Brazil will at least get win and also get full points from each match and that way they will be sure to advance to the next round to fight again and fight for the title in the final.
Brazil is filled with some very great young players and it would be shame or disappointment if they were to be eliminated from the 2024 Copa America competition.

In this match between Brazil vs Costa Rica, it was very uninteresting. How is it possible that the Brazilian team couldn't score a legitimate goal in this match, all i saw were scrabbles on the ball and meaningless kicks, making it difficult for Brazil to get a goal against Costa Rica. From the statistics we can see that Brazil is superior in possession of the ball, but can't produce a single goal until the of the match, that's why it's not interesting as i said.

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I have always commented here in this thread that Brazil is no longer that strong team of the past, they have many good players, without a doubt that in terms of the quality of each player, Brazil is far superior to all teams in this cup, but in terms quality of team play and have good results, they are a terrible team, I even said in this thread that they are in a terrible position in the qualifications for the world cup and the reason for Brazil to fall like this is because the body that runs the brazilian national team, has made a bad choice when choosing the coach

It is not possible for Brazil to have good results with coaches who are not successful as national team coaches, who are not successful as coaches of major European teams, the majority of Brazil's national team players play in Europe and because they are the majority? Because football in Europe has better quality, so the highest football body in Brazil recognizes that players who play abroad have more quality but cannot recognize that coaches from abroad have more quality?

After seeing the results of the match, it seems that what Ronaldinho said was true about Brazil's game.

Brazil played much better than Costa Rica from the first half to the second half. All of Brazil's lines were superior, but it was all in vain because they were only able to get 1 point.
It's not because Costa Rica are bad, but Brazilian players don't seem to have the instinct to score goals.
It was difficult to find the enthusiasm to watch a match that Ronaldinho once said was justified judging by their performance today.

Hopefully the current Brazilian players can make what the legend said is not true.

It was really unfortunate for a team like Brazil that they could not come back with a win despite their dominance throughout the game. Brazil had 74% of the ball throughout the 90 minutes, with Marquinhos sending the ball into the Costa Rica net on the 30th minute but that goal was ruled out for offside. Another misfortune was Paqueta's shot coming back off the goal post. The eyes of the entire football world were on this match. Against Costa Rica Brazil gave a spectacular performance but did not see only goals.

This game was not only uninteresting as you said but it was very shocking to everyone. It was very unfortunate for Brazil team not to be able to secure a goal against a weak team as Costa Rica. Someone said it here earlier that no team can be underestimate as they are all here for trophy and Costa Rica just proved him right. I know they dominated the game throughout but this is a tournament for God sake and opportunity should not be wasted.

Dominating game without a goal in a tournament is as good as losing the match because it adds no value to your point. It was a draw game but I see it as a lost game for Brazil. Costa Rica team surprises everyone of us who have no faith on them to wrestle with Brazil, they hold them and end up sharing point with them despite being outplayed by Brazilian team.

Ronaldinho was right about this Brazil squad and we all see what he is seeing here when he said that the Brazil team will not play well in this Copa America, imagine Brazil can’t score a goal against Costa Rica, if I was told that the match would end without any goal I will not believe, Brazil is among the best country that has best players in the world, imagine Brazil has Vinicius the number one current ballon Dior contestant, Rodrygo, Raphina, and all these young players but to score against Costa Rica is a big problem them, what a poor performance from Real Madrid players like Rodrygo and Vinicius.

Vinicius needs to be careful with the way he is playing for his country, because a player turning up for his club and without turning up performing for his country is not a good sign of winning the ballon Dior, I think Brazil's coach also needs to change the role that he is using Vinicius to play because Vinicius play as a striker yesterday to me, Vinicius is always waiting for the ball to come and score and in Real Madrid he plays a free roll that he can move from one side to another, the coach needs to change how the Brazil players play it not they won’t stay long in this Copa America.

From the first minute of the match, we saw the dominance of the Brazilian players in this match. But what's the point of dominating the match if the players can't score a single goal? Brazil dominated the match. Brazil has 74% ball possession. Brazil's players made a total of 19 shots. But even then Brazil could not score a single goal. On the other hand, Costa Rica played defensively from the beginning of the match. Costa Rica's only goal was to get 1 point from the match. I would say Costa Rica has been able to achieve their goals.

I was really disappointed with Vinicius' performance. Vini performed well last season with Real Madrid. But Vini's performance in this match was very bad. Rodrygo and Lucas Paqueta performed better than Vini in this match.

Even though they managed to get 1 point in the match, but at this time Brazil showed us their very small mentality, facing Costa Rica should be an easy match for Brazil considering that Brazil has a better squad than Costa Rica, achieving one point of course makes Brazil currently have to be satisfied with being in second place,  Against Costa Rica which is a relatively weak team and even Brazil managed to control the match up to 75% of course it is quite funny if in the match Brazil has to draw 0-0, Brazil has many chances in the match but only a few are able to endanger the Costa Rica goal.

What Ronaldinho said and previously denounced by many Brazilian legends in fact now has been proven to happen, the Brazilian squad is of course dominated by talented young players and it can even be said that they are the best squad in the Copa at the moment with Argentina, but in fact their attacking line was not able to create a single goal in the match against a team of Costa Rica class and expected a lot from Brazil in the next match of course it may be a a fault for us.

I don't understand that either... although they tried with Carlo Ancelotti... but before that and now onwards it seems that they will always insist on the mediocre coaches they have in Brazil... Drawing with a team like Costa Rica is simply unacceptable... here in Brazil they are blaming the field which is smaller than the conventional one... but the field was smaller for both teams, right? lame excuses.

Brazil fans must admit that they could not play well in this match which is why Brazil failed to win the match. It is not an argument that Brazil could not score because the field was small.

I don't like Brazil's performance in this match. It is true that a lot of attacks are made by Brazilian players. But Brazil's attacks were not strong. Brazil's players had a total of 19 shots, but only 3 shots on target.

I think the main reason for Brazil's bad condition is their bad match strategy and formation. Brazil team played in 4-2-3-1 formation in this match. The interesting thing is that none of the Brazilian players can pass the ball properly to Vini. Vini might have been able to score in the match if he got enough chances.

I personally am not too surprised by what Brazil got today when facing Costa Rica, in the previous post I have said that indeed Brazil will win with a narrow score but in fact they are worse than what I expected, previously Costa Rica has been too easy an opponent for Brazil but currently Costa Rica has developed rapidly and can make it difficult for any team in Group D including Brazil,  Today's match of course shows what Ronaldinho said previously about Brazil chances in the Copa America proved to be true, currently indeed the Brazilian squad is quite good and filled with young talent, but Ronaldinho said that the quality of the squad owned by Brazil has decreased.

Against Costa Rica, Brazil dominated and even created many chances in the match, but many of those chances could not be used effectively to score, the draw with Costa Rica certainly indicates that there is something wrong with Brazil at the moment and I think their coach must be able to immediately improve it in the next match if they want to qualify for the next round. 

Epic fail. For someone who didn't follow the game and saw the statistics, I wonder if the Brazilian team is playing with training mode ON or what? 19 shots with only three on target? 74% ball possession? 9 corners? Barely a serious opportunity and not a single goal :-X
The bad performance and the rank they got previously is well deserved after all. They cannot advance with such infertile attack line.

I didn't watch the match to the end but it gave me a shock to see the end result, but before then I said it, it not by the previous performance, I feel so sorry for the Brazil after dominating every aspect of the game but unfortunately they ended up draw, Costa Rica have really put enough fight to stop the great players. Colombia have succeeded in winning Paraguay which make them stay on the top of the table, before the Brazil game I thought Colombia are just there and after their match they will take over the table but the reverse is the cast, Copa America have started surprising me like euro, I hope Brazil will learn from the mistakes to win their next two matches, they have all what is takes to even win the trophy so I still have hope for them.

You guessed it would be an easy win for Brazil and Brazil  will win this match by 3-1 margin. Do you bet in this match for Brazil? Then you lost your money.

Brazil team is much stronger than Costa Rica. Brazil had a lot of talented and star players. But I have seen Brazil's performance in the past few matches. So I can't consider Brazil as a favorite in this match. I said it would be very difficult for Brazil to beat Costa Rica in the match. And at the end of the match Brazil team failed to win the match.

Brazil drew the match goalless. Despite many attacks, Brazil could not score a single goal. Costa Rica played this match aiming for a draw. And the Costa Rica team managed to get 1 point from the match. Costa Rica has succeeded.

This was a very difficult and frustrating game for Brazil, Viny didn't play too well. Costa Rica was very solid in defending, defending and defending. Not to mention that the goalkeeper from Costa Rica is like a wall with many extraordinary saves.

Actually, Brazil played well in this match, as usual, their passes were fast and attractive, but Costa Rica's defense was very strong, plus the Brazilian striker didn't do anything to score, so this draw also confirms what the legend said. they are Ronaldinho, the current Brazilian generation is a bad generation. They don't really love the team because most of them only rely on individuals. This resulted in Brazil playing ball for too long but unable to score a goal. Indeed, in this match there were a lot of Brazilian attacks but they were unable to score a goal which was also useless. BTW, I also lost my bet on this match.

Uruguay Football team won the match easily against Panama team. As every football lover knew Uruguay team will win ,we saw week competition and Uruguay team won the match one sidedly. Uruguay team played player with unity and no player gave opportunity to the players of Panama team. We know Panama team is weak team as comparison to Uruguay team but we cannot say strong team to favorite team because any team can won the match against big teams. Because we saw matches in which strong team lose the match against weak team .  We saw USA Vs Brazil match and we saw the result of that match . Brazil team was much much stronger than USA team but it could not won the match and both teams got 1,1 point.

Maybe I won't doubt the quality of the Brazilian players because currently these players are the best at their respective clubs. However, it is also strange to see that their performance is not commensurate with what they showed with Brazil. The gap is so wide that performance should be consistent, but what we see is instead a failure in the country.

With statistics like that, Brazil should be able to win easily, even with a margin of at least two goals, but this is still like wasting every possible opportunity. I don't know why the quality of Brazil's game has dropped so much and I doubt they can be compared to other great teams like Argentina or others.

Guys, look at Dorival Junior, coach of the Brazilian team on the left and Gustavo Alfaro, coach of the Costa Rica team on the right... are they brothers? If you put on the glasses, it's practically the same person lol  :D :D :D... what a coincidence, right?

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Such a pity, and outside all this am just even glad that the bookmakers had to make their winning odd so low that made me ignore it, I mean who would have thought that this game is actually going to end up in a draw, with all that's stats they couldn't convert any to a single goal and if they continue like this then they would be probably knocked out within no time.

Peru vs Canada

Peru — Gallese; Araujo, Zambrano(C), Callens; López; Cartagena, Peña, Quispe, Polo; Flores, Lapadula.

Canada — Crepeau; Johnson, Bombito, Cornelius, Davies(C); Laryea, Kone, Eustaquio; Millar, David.

Here we go for the second match of the competition Argentina have won the first one while Peru and Chile draw and the Canada lost which makes them stay at the bottom of the table.

In Brazil national team now, it's hard to find a world class striker. Who is at similar level of Ronaldo de Lima, Adriano or even Fabiano?

Honestly, we can not find any striker in their team that is at such level now.

Brazil now lack of good strikers and their midfield area has problems too. They can have good ball possession but struggle to create opportunities and they rely on their attacking players at swings like Vinicius Jr or Rodrgyo to find opportunities. They have very limited choices for attacking and it reduces their attacking power a lot.

At their defensive area, it's hard to find good central defenders and wing back players like Cafu, Roberto Carlos, Dani Alves and Marcelo like years ago.

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Brazil failed to win their last match but Argentina's players made no mistakes in today's match. Argentina's players dominated from the beginning of the match. And Argentina won the match 1-0 by scoring in the last minute. Argentina won today with Martinez's goal.

Although Argentina won today by a narrow margin of 1-0, Argentina's players performed very well today. A total of 2 shots were taken by Argentina players, 9 of which were on target. From this it can be understood that Argentina's players performed well in this match and attacked a lot. But Chile played completely defensive today. This is why Argentina cannot win by a large margin. Chile's players did not attempt to score in the entire match. We only saw Argentina's dominance today.

Argentina vs Chile today's match Argentina won by 1-0. Although we know that Argentina is the strongest team in Group A and they are currently at the top of the points table after winning the two matches they have faced. We saw that Argentina won the last Copa America so this season they are much stronger. The way Argentina won today's match against Chile was really interesting and they definitely qualified for the next round of the game. Moreover, I think that the Argentine team has the possibility of winning the Copa America again this season.

there is nothing like a narrow draw in a major tournament as this.what you're playing for us to secure all three point to yourself and it require at least a single goal to make that happen. The numbers of goals scored is only a thing of concern for teams that are struggling to come out of the group into the knockout stage but don't have enough point. With clear 6 point advantage from three matches, Argentina don't need too much goals to proceed further in the tournament. They already have the highest numbers of goals in the group and haven't conceded a single goal yet. The practical thing that happened is that Chile played a more defensive game and weren't looking like they needed to score, when you're playing against a team with that kind of mentality, it becomes very deficult to score them and if you're not careful, they ruin your day by successfully holding you to a draw. Brazil and England suffered same fate and couldn't find a way to secure the three points to themselves. So far, Argentina has the brightest look in this current edition of the Copa America tournament and if they take this consistency to the knockout stage, they will certainly get to the finals.

Argentina finally managed to win over Chile through the only goal scored by Lautaro Martinez in the final minutes of the match. This was not an easy match for Argentina because Chile played well and Claudio Bravo managed to make several brilliant saves but unfortunately, Argentina's aggressive attack finally found the net.
Scaloni needed to make many substitutions in the second half, and these substitutions succeeded in providing a change in his team's attack which resulted in a goal, and Messi didn't play well enough this time and there was even a very good chance which he failed to convert into a goal.

Chile's opportunity to reach the quarter-finals is still open but against Canada, it is not easy because they are facing a team that only needs a draw to remain in second place in group A, only playing more aggressively against Canada later can lead Chile to victory, especially as Canada is not productive so Chile must anticipate defensive play from Canada.

The golden era of Brazilian players has passed, of course it is a shame if you look at their playing style, far from being expensive but disappointing players, they seem to only be labeled as expensive players for their clubs but far from the expectations of country, of course it will be risky if you place a bet on Brazil in the match  Next, look at their game like that.

The Brazilian players didn't show any good results, you weren't the only one who was surprised to see Brazil play like that, even for almost 90 minutes they played like that, it really disappointed many people by showing a game like that for almost the last 90 minutes, which was certainly ridiculous.

Argentina team was strong enough in this match, but somehow could not achieve success in attacks. Only one corner kick was on target, but the rest of the attacks were more difficult but all of them hit the post and the ball went out. Claudio Bravo This goalkeeper of the Chile team has worked hard, and he is an experienced goalkeeper which proved in this match.
Although he could save almost the whole match, he failed to save this corner kick attack in the 88th minute. But the goalkeeper of the Chile team performed well throughout the match, Claudio Bravo, if he did not perform well, the goal difference would have been more.

FT Chile 0 vs 1 Argentina

The victory over Chile made Argentina easily qualified to the next round after securing six points and become the first standings position of Group A, Lautaro Martinez helped Argentina secured three points after his only one goal on 88th minutes although plays as substitutes players. Actually Argentina get difficult since the first minutes and Chile huge pressure with more defensive games play, Lautaro Martinez playing in 73th minutes had difference impact and his goals help Argentina take one place on 16 of round.

Left one match for Argentina securing their first standings place facing Peru, being draw is enough for Argentina lead as the first position place with 7 points although Canada won on their last match just getting 6 points.

I have said before that Argentina is capable of winning this trophy, Argentina's performance in this tournament is very impressive and Argentina is also the strongest team in the group, unlike Brazil which can not beat ordinary Costa Rica, Argentina dominated this match and still won the match, although Argentina could not score a goal in time when you look at the game you will know that Argentina is going to find a way to win the match because Argentina is pressuring chile so much in the match, Argentina has secured the 6 points now and that shows that they have qualified to the next round of the competition.

I’m not a fan of Argentina but the way they played is very impressive because they are very cooperative when they are playing on the field, they play with one mind when they lose they lose together and when they win they win together unlike the other teams that will be blaming each other for their mistakes, let be honest Argentina can still do without Messi in this tournament because they are very good and know how to play together and win a game.

As we can see that, Argentina has already won two matches, and they have qualified enough to be selected in the qualifiers. However, it is uncertain which team will win the game between Peru and Canada, but Canada is more likely to win. Canada has drawn one match and managed one win, keeping them in the second position on the points table with 3 points. However, as Canada faces Peru today, both teams will have enough attacks to win, and I see Canada as the favorite today. If Canada can win today's match, then they definitely have a chance to qualify for the next round, and I think Canada will win today's match.
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Although Argentina made a slight change in its squad against Chile but the achievement of 3 points in the match managed to make Argentina the first team to qualify for the last 8 of the Copa America today, I don't know why the coach reserved Angel Di Maria and Leandro Paredes in the match but it seems that it is less effective for Argentina to create a lot of offensive creativity that can be a goal,  Since the match began, Argentina immediately took the initiative to attack and even unlucky for Messi if the opportunity from the shot he made only hit the goal post and made both teams have to end the first half with a score of 0-0, throughout the first half I did not see if Chile attacked and they only focused on defending, was it indeed the coach instruction or was it precisely the strength of the attack built by Argentina forcing them to defend completely?.

Compared to the first half, the second half was even more fierce in my opinion, because in the second half Chile also began to dare to attack the Argentina defense even though it was not as great as what Argentina did, after Di Maria was played I saw that the attacks carried out by Argentina began to vary compared to the first half, Argentina players began to feel frustrated after Bravo was able to thwart their chances throughout the match,  Finally, the goal was created after the corner kick made by Messi was able to be used by Martinez who was in the right position to score, in that match Bravo should have deserved to be the Man of the Match after being able to make many crucial saves.

Venezuela vs Mexico
Venezuela was the first surprise team of the tournament. I watched a Venezuela that won 2-1 against Ecuador and performed well on offense. Venezuela started the group stage on a high note. Mexico, on the other hand, won comfortably against Jamaica with high possession. Despite the roster change, I expect Mexico to score in this game, as they have the ball and are effective on offense. Mexico has never lost in 13 games against Venezuela in their history and they will want to continue this streak. Based on the first match performances of both teams, it is highly likely that both teams will score in this match. Mexico are the favorites to win this match.

They proved again that Argentina team is really a strong team. Argentina faced Chile in the second match of the 2024 Copa America. I still remember when Argentina lost a Copa America final match against this Chile team, every player in the Argentina team cried. I watched this match live on TV, maybe Argentina got their revenge.

The current performance of the Argentina team may make them come back to win this year's Copa America. The Argentina football team is already in the highest position in the group they are in as they have faced their opponents in two matches even won two of them. The Argentina team completely dominated the match against Chile even though they attacked the most. The Argentine side were unsuccessful despite many attacks but in the 87.14th minute Lautaro Martínez gave Argentina the lead. Basically, through his goal, Argentina team won against Chile.

Even Neymar felt embarrassed during this match to the point that he covered his face several times showing that he was confused about how this could happen. In fact, Ronaldinho has said this before that the Brazilian National Team this time is the worst. Ronaldinho also said that he would not want to watch Brazil's matches in the Copa America for this time.

Today Argentina beat Chile to qualify for the next round. A team between Canada, Peru and Chile will qualify for the next round. Canada is ahead of Peru and Chile. Canada defeated Peru today, Canada is 2nd in the points table with 3 points from 2 matches. It will be confirmed on June 30 which team will qualify for the quarter finals as the 2nd team from Group A. Next June 30th there will be a match between Peru and Argentina where the chances of Peru winning are very low. So it will be difficult for Peru to qualify for the next round. If Argentina can defeat Peru and there will be a match between Chile and Canada, Canada will qualify for the next round if Canada wins or draws the match. Canada is ahead of Chile and Peru to advance to the next round.

Chile was always able to make it difficult for Argentina throughout the match, Argentina defeat in the final against Chile was the saddest moment for Argentina, but they were able to recover to win the trophy when the Copa America was held in Brazil. Chile made it difficult for Argentina to score goals, they were also able to pressure Argentina with very dangerous fast attacks. Chile also had several golden opportunities, but the Chilean players' efforts were always thwarted by Emiliano Martinez, who performed very well in goal.

Successfully finishing the match with a narrow score of 1-0 was the most important result for Argentina, they managed to get revenge and made it difficult for Chile to qualify for the next round. Argentina is still able to maintain its best performance, successfully beating Chile indicates they are still very strong and have the potential to retain the Copa America trophy.

I think Argentina are favourites, they have so many good players. Brazil and Uruguay are strong though and there’s always the chance an outsider could do well.

I like the look of Colombia, they have players doing well in Europe.

Argentina actually played very well because they take full control of the game from the beginning till the end despite that they find it very hard to locate the back of Chile net. I expected Argentina to win the game without much stress but Chile hold them to almost a draw game despite Argentina maintained the possession with 70%. Chile too played impressive game and all praises to their goal keeper who denied Argentina every chance until the 88th minute goal that change the scoreline. The game was not a boring one as it use to be and Argentina have made their way to top the table and paved their way for the next round of the tournament. Some expert have already predicted Argentina to be the winner of the tournament as well.

As I said before, this Brazilian team can't find its feet. Imagine them playing against Argentina or some other stronger team. They had 70% of the ball possession and still couldn't achieve anything.

The Brazilian team is missing a center forward, a talented goalscorer. I don't know why they didn't take Pedro to this Copa América, he's very good... he's a center forward... a rare player. Dorival Junior will have a hard time reaching the level of play with this Brazilian team... if they play against better teams, Brazilian team will be massacred

The draw from Costa Rica makes Brazil have to fight hard to qualify for the last 8 at this time, when facing a team that they have been able to dominate but only get 1 point, of course, Brazil is now starting to doubt even though they have a very capable squad, the presence of many young stars in their squad certainly gives a lot of hope for Brazilian fans to see the Brazilian squad can achieve a lot of things together with the new era Team Samba, but in fact despite being able to perform admirably in their matches, but Brazil team does not have a good ability to score goals despite having many great attackers in their current front line.

So far, Paraguay and Colombia of course still have the potential to make it difficult for Brazil, but I hope that if Brazil can immediately find a solution to their problems so that they at least have a chance to qualify for the last 8 and if maybe will meet Argentina in the final later, I personally favor Argentina to reach the final this year and hope that Brazil will be their opponent later.

I agree with you that there is no need for teams to win big in these international tournaments. Just getting 3 points is enough. And Argentina earned full points in both matches. In both the matches we saw good performances from the Argentinian players. In the first match, the opponent Canada was relatively weak. Argentina won the match 2-0. However, Chile was a very strong opponent in yesterday's match. Argentina won this match 1-0. Argentina team is at the top of the points table with 6 points in two matches. Argentina qualified for the knockout round.

Argentina team is in very good form now. And the most favorite of this year's Copa America is Argentina team. Brazil team is considered as Argentina's main rival in Copa America. But Brazil is in a very bad situation right now. The overall performance of this team is quite poor due to the lack of bonding between the players.

I don’t think we should expect much from the group stage. Brazil obviously dropped two points from this game, but they are unlikely to have a problem beating any two teams in Group D to qualify for the knockout stages. But now they have no room for error. If they do do it, it will be a disaster for a tournament where everything is done in such a way that Brazil and Argentina will play in the final.

Peru 0 - 1 Canada
A red card for a player in Peru in the second half made the mission easier for Canada.

Chile 0 - 1 Argentina
Argentina is way more consistent than any other team here and especially Brazil that looks weaker than any time. Argentina is the favourite team in this tournament and should continue its success story.

Ecuador - Jamaica in less than two hours
Ecuador is expected to win this game.

Venezuela - Mexico
This match is quite harder than the previous one but Mexico is better in my opinion.

As far as I can see, that's true. Chile did make it difficult for Argentina to score goals, but on the other hand, this was a deficiency in the Argentine player's finishing. In that match, Argentina made 9 shots on target from 22 attempts, but a goal from Lautaro Martínez which came in in the 73rd minute managed to make Argentina win the match.

The temporary table shows that Argentina has secured 6 points from a total of 2 wins from Canada and Chile. Argentina only needs to finish 1 more match against Peru which will be held on June 30. I think Argentina can defend their title again in the 2024 Copa, but let's see if they can actually do it.

In this match we can easily almost say that Ecuador's chance of winning in this match is very high. Some predicted that this is a must-win match for Ecuador. But there is no way to be 100% sure. Though Enner Valencia will miss the match due to picking up a red card against Venezuela but many expect Ecuador to win. Only a few minutes left, these two teams will enter the field. Very likely we can see a competitive match in the 1st hour.

Venezuela and Mexico both are strong teams. It will be difficult to predict who will win in that match. Venezuela vs Mexico in this match Mexico may be ahead because in the last few win statistics Mexico is ahead. But anything can happen on the field.

I watched my first Copa America game of the current tournament — Chile vs Argentina game. First off, compared to the Euros, it was much more lively and entertaining to watch. But I have a question. Are all Copa America games played like there's a war? Some of the tackles today looked like the players had grudges with each other. It reminded me of El Classico game with Messi and Ronaldo as rivals and Pepe + Sergio Ramos in Madrid's defense too. It was a joy to watch even though some of those tackles were just outright terrible.

I will be following up the remainder of the tournament. It is binge worthy in my books. Only problem is most of the games are played between 2-5am in my local time.

Lionel Messi's Argentina won their second win of Copa America 2024. Super sub Lautaro Martinez scored only a goal in 88 minutes of the match. In this win, Argentina confirmed their quarter-finals as the first team to defeat Chile. The first half of the match ended goalless. Argentina team took seventeen shots within seventy-two minutes of the match still goal did not come, After eighty-eight minutes finally the goal came. Lautaro Martinez scored. Chile's goalkeeper did very well otherwise there could have been more goals. He got the Man of the Match award for this good performance. Welcome to Team Argentina qualifying for the semi-final.

Argentina are good no doubt but what I observed is that they support each other in every game they play, not that they're better than Brazil no, is just that they are more organized than the Brazil national team. Check it properly, Brazil have more better players than Argentina but they're struggling to get a win and believe me that Argentina are not putting much effort in this competition, is like they're already in the finals and the other countries are trying to meet up. I can't say Messi and his teammates are the favorite until we see how poor the other teams are that's when I can say but for now Brazil is number 1 favorite to win the tournament.

Remember the World Cup in Qatar and how Argentina got started against Saudi Arabia, it was horrible! They lost their first game in the group stage 1-2 against Saudi Arabia. At that point in time I am convinced that 95% of the world except for the Argentinians thought that this World Cup is over for them rather sooner than later.

To me it seems that Argentina is almost never doing more than necessary to get get through those group stages. I can't remember when they marched through it in an unstoppable way. It always looks bumpy, way too close if you consider their quality and compare it to their opponents. In a normal scenario Argentina should clearly win that game by a 3 goal margin or something. But they don't and it was the same at the World Cup where they got started even worse.

I think that there are no easy opponents in the sense that you could expect Argentina to win every game like 3-0, but I would think that with a squad like that the game should never be a sweat for them until the end. But they have got the job done.

Same with Brazil though. They could really pull off a disaster beyond expectation. Their World Cup qualification is going anything but well. And now they have something like a final on gameday 2. If they lose that game against Panama for some weird reasons, shit is going to hin the fan there. I would not like to be a harcore Brazil fan these days.

Overall, in regards to consistency, I think it is quite obvious that Argentina is the favorite for the time being.

The championship is in the hands of the Argentines. I really believe that they will win it. Because the second best team, at least in name, would be Brazil. But based on the way they have been playing, they won't even be able to qualify for the next World Cup.

Brazil will take on Paraguay on the 29th to secure the next round of the Copa America and keep themselves in the tournament. Recently the time is not going well for Brazil, in the first match against Costa Rica, this team earned only one point. Since two teams from each group will go to the next round, if Brazil fails to win the next match, then Colombia and Costa Rica will have the possibility of securing the next round. Brazil probably know these equations well so they will definitely be going out to get 3 points against Paraguay. If the Brazil team can't dominate in the Copa America or World Cup tournaments, people will lose interest in football, so we want this team to compete with every team.

Yeah they are struggling to find their no. 9 player, but it's still much better imo comparing to the time when Brazil just had Jô and Vagner Love as their main strikers ;D




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Wow Venezuela vs Mexico was the most intense game in this Copa America so far! I was literally shouting at TV when Romo saved that damn penalty lol, as hard as when Joselu scored a brace against Bayern last month.


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Was expecting too much on them to score another goal from a counter-attack move, but yeah the final result wasn't disappointing at all. Crazy game!