- Peru stunned defending champions Chile 3-0 to reach the final of the Copa America for the first time in 44 years. Goals from Edison Flores, Yoshimar Yotun and Paolo Guerrero handed Peru a deserved.
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- Arturo Vidal of Chile reacts during the Copa America Brazil 2019 Third Place match between Argentina and Chile at Arena Corinthians on July 06, 2019. Physical map of south america - argentina chile stock illustrations.
- When the fixture for the quarterfinals of Copa America 2019 was defined, most people were looking at a Brazil-Argentina and Colombia-Uruguay semifinals. While in the first case the result was as expected, the second semifinal caught many by surprise. Both Chile and Peru eliminated favoured teams. Colombia coming out of a solid group phase performance was beaten by Chile.
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It’s been a week — and two matchdays — since the Copa América started in Brazil. The sample space is a little too small to make definitive judgments on the tournament, but it’s possible to make observations on the play and performances so far. So here we go:
- Copa América has not been a box-office success. Attendance at the tournament has been sparse to say the least. And that’s including Brazil matches. To be sure, the matches involving countries with large traveling support — Colombia, Chile, and Argentina — have been well-attended, but many of the more expensive seats have been left unoccupied. Maybe the attendance will tick up during the knockout phase, but one begins to understand why the USA becomes a more attractive candidate to host the tournament.
- Copa América has been cagey. One of the stereotypes of South American football is that it’s a mixture of attractive and technical football with a healthy scoop of the dark arts swirled in. The reality of the Copa América is one of more cagey and physical encounters with a few teams willing to play attractive football (and getting punished for doing so in the later stages). If the 2011 Copa could be characterized as tight and defensive, and the 2016 Copa América Centenario described as more expansive, perhaps this version will reside in the middle.
- The top players in xG and xA are the ones you would expect. In terms of total expected goals, the five players who have generated the most are the following: LuĂs Suárez (Uruguay), Erick Pulgar (Colombia), Lionel Messi (Argentina), Philippe Coutinho (Brazil), and Edinson Cavani (Uruguay). With the exception of Pulgar, who is just entering his prime years as a defensive midfielder, those five players have been at or near the peak of world football for the last five to seven years or longer. (That’s a stretch in Coutinho’s case, to be sure.) The top five in terms of total expected assists: Messi, James RodrĂguez (Colombia), Charles Aránguiz (Chile), Coutinho, and Paolo Guerrero (Peru). Once again, the players at or near the top of South American football are in this group.
- The top players in xG and xA from open play are much more revealing. LuĂs Suárez remains on top of the xG list, which isn’t too surprising, but he’s followed by Alexis Sánchez (Chile), Duván Zapata (Colombia), Jefferson Farfán (Peru), and Cavani. Coutinho is the highest-ranked Brazilian in open-play xG (6th overall), but the highest-ranked Argentine, Giovani Lo Celso, is 24th overall. At the top of the xA list are Guerrero, Coutinho, Farfán, Wilmar Barrios (Colombia), and Mateus Uribe (Colombia). Messi ranks 13th in open-play xA.
- Without Lionel Messi, Argentina would be in a much worse state. That’s not an original observation, and it’s one that many other commentators and pundits have made more frequently over the last six to eight years. But in a national team stocked with players who have distinguished roles for their club sides, it is shocking to see Messi have such a significant share of Argentina’s expected goals and assists — 44% and 41%, respectively.
- Japan and Qatar have acquitted themselves well, even though results don’t show it. Japan brought a team that is a B team with some veteran players mixed in, and they were promptly swept aside by Chile in their opener. They improved significantly against Uruguay, taking the lead twice before they drew in what was the most entertaining match of the tournament so far. Qatar fought back to draw a complacent Paraguay in their first match, then proved difficult to break down against Colombia. Both teams have very negative expected goal differences — Qatar has 1.29 xG and 5.16 xGA, Japan 2.43 xG and 7.46 xGA — but have overachieved in terms of points won.
- Uruguay look like a candidate for the title. They have arguably the best strikers, the best defense, and the best and most adaptable manager. Brazil’s defense is just as good, but their forward attack hasn’t been as good at converting the many chances offered to them. Chile and Colombia also have a chance, but Chile have a better defense. Peru can’t be ignored, either. But in a Copa América in which neither Brazil nor Argentina have been at their best, it is set up very nicely for Uruguay to win it at the Maracanã on 7 July. After all, they have experience winning there before.
Peru stunned defending champions Chile 3-0 to reach the final of the Copa America for the first time in 44 years.
Goals from Edison Flores, Yoshimar Yotun and Paolo Guerrero handed Peru a deserved win which sends them into a final against Brazil at the Maracana Stadium on Sunday.
The stunning upset prevented Chile's golden generation from challenging for a third straight title, following their wins over Argentina in 2015 and 2016.
Instead the finalists from the previous two editions will meet in Saturday's third-place play-off in Sao Paulo.
Little was expected of Peru in the knock-out stages after they ended the group phase with a humbling 5-0 thrashing by Brazil.
But after riding their luck -- and being saved by VAR three times -- to beat Uruguay on penalties in the quarter-final, they were a completely rejuvenated outfit in Porto Alegre.
Goalkeeper Pedro Gallese, the villain of that 5-0 defeat, was again faultless, as he had been in the quarter-final when decisively saving Luis Suarez's shoot-out penalty.
He again saved a penalty and made a number of other vital stops. August 27th 2012american meadow's equestrian center schedule.
From the start Peru dominated the reigning champions, with Christian Cueva wastefully shooting wide two minutes in after he was teed up in space by his captain Guerrero.
On seven minutes Chile's Charles Aranguiz started and finished a superb passing move involving Alexis Sanchez and Jean Beausejour, by placing a precise shot just past the post.
Flores took advantage of an Erick Pulgar slip in midfield to dart towards goal but he dragged his weak shot woefully wide.
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But a minute later he was alone at the back post to lash home left-footed from an Andre Carillo flick on from Cueva's cross.
Striker Guerrero made a timely intervention in his own area to prevent a Sanchez corner from sneaking in at the near post.
Yotun doubled the lead on 38 minutes after punishing Chile goalkeeper Gabriel Arias's rush of blood to the head.
Carillo chased a long ball down the right-hand side and beat Arias, who ill-advisedly had charged from his area, to the ball before picking out Yotun on the edge of the 18-yard area.
Faced with four back-tracking defenders, Yotun calmly controlled the ball on his chest and sent a low volley straight down the middle of the empty goal.
Equally importantly was Gallese's one-hand save to tip over a Jose Fuenzalida volley a minute before the break.
A 2-0 half-time lead was the least Peru deserved after an enterprising performance against tentative opponents.
Chile were a lick of paint away from getting back into the match on 51 minutes when Eduardo Vargas's flicked header beat Gallese but agonizingly came back off the post.
Peru should have put the game to bed on a rapier counter-attack on the hour but Guerrero and Cueva passed rather than shooting and Yotun ballooned over from six yards with the goal gaping.
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Peru started sitting deeper, inviting Chile to attack and Aranguiz sent a rasping shot whistling past the top corner with Gallese a mere spectator.
Gallese then tipped over a looping volley from Beausejour and 15 minutes from time he stayed big to block a shot from Vargas one-on-one.
He was unbeatable and dived low to his right to palm out a venomous Sanchez effort from 20 yards.
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Guerrero put the icing on the cake in injury time after rounding Arias, but Gallese had the last word from the penalty spot.