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[Swordsoffreedom]

Anyone watching today's exciting match?
Argentina vs Paraguay, a breathtaking match ended a while ago. A tug-of-war worked throughout the match.

Full time
Argentina 1-0 Paraguay
Goal: Gomez
Assist: De Maria
By today's win, Argentina confirmed the quarter-final of Copa-America.  

Congratulations @PLGuru(7.5) & @Trofo(6)

A successful victory:  
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[DIA7]

its a shame that this goal disallowed for Offside it was clear it was an Own goal by Junior Alonso but VAR ruled it out.
i had 2-0 prediction for the pool.

this round have been unpredictable for me 2nd worse.
The good thing is that scores are still bit close and the mini competitions have been keeping this pool interesting thanks to Trofo getting us Sportsbet.io as our kickass Sponsor.

[morvillz7z]

its a shame that this goal disallowed for Offside it was clear it was an Own goal by Junior Alonso but VAR ruled it out.

I think they called it off on the initial shot by Di Maria, Messi was sorta in the middle making it hard for the goalie to see the ball, and he was offside.


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[buwaytress]

I feel so ashamed to be in these pools nowadays. Totally entrenched near the bottom, as always;) But nice going guru and Trofo, as per usual! Colombia kicking me in the teeth all the time now, even Venezuela, I suppose I deserve it for taking an outright on Brazil...

Hopefully can watch semis and the final, I've missed every game so far and desperately want to gorge on football this weekend. Another Brazil-Peru final???

[Trofo]

Hopefully can watch semis and the final, I've missed every game so far and desperately want to gorge on football this weekend. Another Brazil-Peru final???

I managed to squeeze in first half of 1 Brazil game and 1 Colombia game in my busy schedule. Nowhere near as much as I would have liked but hopefully I'll watch something in these days when EURO is taking a break.

My money and prediction is on Peru taking something from the game tonight. Ecuador has not impressed me so far.

[icopress]

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I will start watching the matches from the quarterfinals, for now I also focused on the Euro (it's a pity but no one has made a worthy competition for Brazil so far). Sometimes it even seems to me that top football players dream of changing their citizenship in order to take part in the Euro ... btw, my results are not as bad as in the Euro pool, the main thing is not to give up positions, (at least I'm not disappointed considering this is my first experience).

[buwaytress]

@icopress I don't think I've ever won any of the pools, any prize places, so you can be assured if you're even a bit above average you've got a good chance as plenty of people like me giving free money for pools haha. Freebets since SB started sponsoring have been great though.

Brazil do look like they're inevitably going to the final don't they?

Tempted to watch Uruguay match tonight, they've got to be scoring now surely?

[Trofo]

Tempted to watch Uruguay match tonight, they've got to be scoring now surely?

If they don't score tonight they deserve to drop out from the group which is virtually impossible. Copa has a format where only last team from the group goes home which allows for rather boring group stage. If you are a favorite like Brazil you could literally let the youngsters play and keep your first 11 for knockout stages.

[Trofo]

Bump


New Sportsbet free bet mini competition is up, as I said there I am running out of ideas so feel free to propose something. If you don't have any ideas at least let me know which one was the best for you or worst so I know which ones to repeat

It is about time for group stages to end and real stuff begins. I am expecting much more passion, fouls and controversy in the later stages as usual with South Americans.

[morvillz7z]

New Sportsbet free bet mini competition is up, as I said there I am running out of ideas so feel free to propose something. If you don't have any ideas at least let me know which one was the best for you or worst so I know which ones to repeat

Not sure how many more mini-competitions have you guys planned, maybe do the corners and yellow cards once more, i personally liked those two. I would skip anything related to 1X2, O/U, and correct scores going forward...since we are competing against each other, we don't want to give away our leans.  Anyway, a tight race so far, unironically one single exact score can shoot you up from 10th to 1st place and there are not that many matches left (12 to be exact), man it's going to be a wild finish.

What's the probability of Maxi Gomez scoring in this situation (t'was the last minute of added time @2:0)? Penalties have xG of 0.76, this should be at least and close to 0.99, right?  It's basically a penalty without the goalkeeper.


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[Trofo]

Not sure how many more mini-competitions have you guys planned, maybe do the corners and yellow cards once more, i personally liked those two. I would skip anything related to 1X2, O/U, and correct scores going forward...since we are competing against each other, we don't want to give away our leans.

As per our sponsorship deal with Sportsbet I can award up to 2 mBTC per week on our side competitions for as long as Copa lasts. We had roughly 2 competitions per week each paying 1 mBTC so far. When we get to knockout stages depending on number of games per week maybe I'll do just one with better rewards.

Point taken about 1x2 and O/U, I'll avoid those going forward. Don't think it was an issue so far but it could become one especially as we are going to the end of competition and every point becomes more important.

[tomahawk9]

@Trofo  Some suggestions for the next freebet promo: 'First team to score', or 'Type of 1st goal in every match',  'Total number of yellow cards in all 4 matches combined', 'total shots on target by X + Y team'.

c'mon, people, share your suggestions. Don't be shy 

[Trofo]

@Trofo  Some suggestions for the next freebet promo: 'First team to score', or 'Type of 1st goal in every match',  'Total number of yellow cards in all 4 matches combined', 'total shots on target by X + Y team'.

c'mon, people, share your suggestions. Don't be shy 

Like them all except Type of the first goal. That one can be tricky to judge sometimes so I will avoid it. You think you included everything and then happens a shot which gets deflected and somebody feels cheated no matter what. Or guy scores a goal with his knee or shoulder. Does not happen often but happens when you don't need it

I used to play next goal header couple of years ago on a regular basis and I can tell you a header after corner very often gets deflected or the attacker catches the ball with his head and shoulder or some combination and you never feel good waiting for the bookie to judge the situation.

[Swordsoffreedom]

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Top 3 after 4 matches in round 5, congratulations @DIA7 and @hahay



All the matches of the group stage are over. Argentina is top of Group A with 10 points ✌️. Brazil is top of Group B with 10 points.

I am an Argentine supporter, when Argentina drew the first match, many of my friends said that Argentina would not be able to get the top spot in Group A, and Argentina plays defensively. So, They can't score more than 1 or 2 arrows but yesterday they beat Bolivia 4-1 . Those who have watched the match have been able to enjoy Messi's extraordinary magical goal.

On the other hand, Brazil is the most favorite team in Copa America, but there is no shortage of talented players in their squad. They have won the first 3 matches. They drew the last match against a weak team like Ecuador (In this match, I lost my bet). From what I saw in Brazil's match against Ecuador, I realized that Brazil's attack is not very strong without Neymar. If Neymar is injured later, then the victory against the strong team of Brazil will be difficult.

[Michael Skylar]

Today Argentina beat Bolivia by 4-1.Lionel Messi scored 2 goals.
On quarterfinal Argentina will play with Ecuador.
I think this time Argentina has a great chance to win the Copa America Cup.
What do you think??

[hahay]

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Top 3 after 4 matches in round 5, congratulations @DIA7 and @hahay



All the matches of the group stage are over. Argentina is top of Group A with 10 points ✌️. Brazil is top of Group B with 10 points.

I am an Argentine supporter, when Argentina drew the first match, many of my friends said that Argentina would not be able to get the top spot in Group A, and Argentina plays defensively. So, They can't score more than 1 or 2 arrows but yesterday they beat Bolivia 4-1 . Those who have watched the match have been able to enjoy Messi's extraordinary magical goal.

On the other hand, Brazil is the most favorite team in Copa America, but there is no shortage of talented players in their squad. They have won the first 3 matches. They drew the last match against a weak team like Ecuador (In this match, I lost my bet). From what I saw in Brazil's match against Ecuador, I realized that Brazil's attack is not very strong without Neymar. If Neymar is injured later, then the victory against the strong team of Brazil will be difficult.

Yes, thank you very much. But I don't think the stats are that important and in fact, I hardly ever check my progress for each round. Because even though in this round it looks good but still, in the leaderboard I'm still far below.
Regarding Argentina and Brazil I personally still support Brazil but to be honest, at this moment the match becomes more difficult to predict maybe because of the pandemic situation.
By the way, congratulations to you, who are still at the top of the leaderboard.

[tomahawk9]

https://copaamerica.com/en/news/quarterfinals-confirmed-conmebol-copa-america-2021/

Road to the Final for Brazil looks like a piece of cake. Argentina looked superb in the group stage so i don't see them having issues in the knockout stage (unless the mandatory argentinian choke kicks in early lol). Brazil - Argentina in the legendary stadium of Maracana. Epic

[Trofo]

Road to the Final for Brazil looks like a piece of cake. Argentina looked superb in the group stage so i don't see them having issues in the knockout stage (unless the mandatory argentinian choke kicks in early lol). Brazil - Argentina in the legendary stadium of Maracana. Epic

Brazil really has open road to final. I have a feeling Argentina will manage to loose in the semi-finals. It will be a tough low scoring draw against Uruguay/Colombia and then losing on penalties.

[icopress]

Brazil really has open road to final. I have a feeling Argentina will manage to loose in the semi-finals. [...]

It seems to me that the Brazilian players are bored to play in this tournament ... and while Argentina has a good line-up, they don't look brilliantб, (hopefully in the near future we will see more tension than there was in the group stage matches). I will not deny that my opinion may be subjective, given that I equate the game of the Argentinean national team to the times of Maradonna and that I am not a fan of Barça. 

[Trofo]

I would skip anything related to 1X2, O/U, and correct scores going forward...since we are competing against each other, we don't want to give away our

I posted new competition and after hitting send I realized I sort of dropped the ball on this one Still think it is not a big problem but if you guys pick "no goal option" you are actually giving away your predicted final score. Or maybe just messing with others 

For instance I went with "no goal" in the contest and put 1:1 in Superbru for Uruguay match.