Today, Saturday, June 29, the second team classified for the quarterfinals of the Copa América 2024. Argentina was the first finalist and it remains to be seen who will be the other team from Group A. Peru, Chile and Canada They will fight to get the long-awaited ticket to the next stage that will keep them in the running for the international competition.
The Peruvian team will face the ‘white and blue’ and has the obligation to get a victory to be able to keep its chances alive, but it will depend on the result of the match between ‘mapochos’ and the ‘reds’. Both matches will take place simultaneously at 7:00 p.m.
The group table is even, and the team that has the first chance to advance is the Canadian team because it has a significant advantage over the other two teams. The Canadian team Jesse Marsch has three points due to the great triumph that it achieved against the national team and it only needs to beat the ‘red’ to continue in the competition. The third and fourth place are for the team of Ricardo Gareca and those of Jorge Fossati With one point each, they have the same goal difference and that will be an important point to know who will qualify next in the tournament. Conmebol.
Anything can happen on the last date of the group stage in the Group A of the Copa America 2024several scenarios can occur and one of them is the possibility that Peru and Chile equal on points and goal difference, that raises the question of what will happen. According to the rules of the Conmebolthere is a key factor that will break the tie and define the second place in the quarterfinals.
Article 24 of the rules details how to choose the squad that will advance to the next instance: greatest goal difference, greatest number of goals scored, direct confrontation, least number of red cards, least number of yellow cards, draw.
That is, if the ‘red and white’ manages to beat Argentina and the ‘mapochos’ beat Canada; The scoreboard will be essential to define the number of annotations. However, if they manage to equalize everything, the next point to consider will be the fewest number of red cards, and the team of Ricardo Gareca will have the advantage since the national team has one expulsion, that of Miguel Araujo in the duel with the Canadians on the second day of the tournament.
The chilean team received bad news before the duel with the ‘reds’ for their qualification to the quarterfinals of the Copa America 2024, ‘Tigre’ was suspended and will not be able to be on the bench leading his squad in a decisive match. The reason is because some of his players took a while to come out onto the field at half-time of the match with Argentina For the 2nd date of the continental competition, for the same reason Lionel Scaloni was also sanctioned.
Thus, the federation of the ‘red’ will have to pay a large sum of money for the financial fine imposed on him, the amount is 15 thousand dollars. The person in charge of giving instructions to the ‘mapochos’ will be Sergio Santin Spinelli, his technical assistant, who detailed how he took the news Ricardo Gareca.
“Good afternoon everyone, Ricardo was on his way to the conference and we received the statement from the official Conmebol of this one-match suspension and he returned to the hotel. Well, we had to solve this and we are here,” Santín commented at a press conference.
