IFFHS CONTINENTAL NEWS - COPA AMERICA 2024 (Match day 3)
Picture : Lautaro Martínez scored 74 seconds into the second half, something that an Argentine player had not achieved in the Copa América since 17 July 1991 (Gabriel Batistuta against Brazil at 37 seconds into the 2nd half).
The statistics on Copa America 2024 matchday 3 (30 June)
The Group A of Copa America 2024 became the 4th in the history of senior national team tournaments (considering only groups of 4 teams and 6 matches) in which 2 teams (Chile and Peru) ended up without scoring a single goal. The precedents:
Copa America 1989 (final phase): Argentina and Paraguay.
Confederations Cup 2009: Iraq and New Zealand.
Asia Cup 2011: North Korea and United Arab Emirates.
Argentina vs Peru 2-0
*For the 3rd time, Argentina ended a group in a major tournament with all victories (3 out of 3) and without goals against, after Copa America 1921
and World Cup 1998.
*Peru are eliminated in the Copa América group stage for the 1st time since 1995.
*Peru failed to score a single goal in a Copa América edition for the first time.
*Peru have scored only 1 goal in their last 10 competitive matches (Yotún's goal in the World Cup qualifier against Venezuela); there are no precedents of such a poor streak in their history.
*Leandro Paredes is the first player to miss a penalty on his birthday in the history of the Copa América.
*Paredes became the first Argentine player to miss a penalty in the Copa América since Roberto Ayala did it against Brazil in 1999.
*Paredes is the first Argentine player to hit the woodwork from a penalty in the Copa América since the same 1999 (Martin Palermo in the first of his 3 missed penalties against Colombia).
*Lautaro Martínez scored 74 seconds into the second half, something that an Argentine player had not achieved in the Copa América since 17 July 1991 (Gabriel Batistuta against Brazil at 37 seconds into the 2nd half).
*Lautaro Martínez is the first Argentine player to score in all 3 group stage games of the same edition of the Copa América since Batistuta did so in 1991.
*Lautaro Martínez is the first player to score in all 3 group stage games of the same edition of the Copa América since 2001 (Paulo Wanchope with Costa Rica and Víctor Hugo Aristizabal with Colombia).
Canada vs Chile 0-0
*Canada have advanced from the group at their debut participation in the Copa America.
*Canada is the 2nd team in the history of the Copa América that entered top-2 in a group stage (considering standard format of 4 teams and a single match between them), despite scoring only 1 goal.
The first was Mexico (2nd in its group in 2001).
*Chile are eliminated in a group stage of any senior national team tournament for the first time since the 2004 Copa América.
They had successfully passed 9 consecutive group stages before: 6 in the Copa América, 2 in the World Cup and 1 in the Confederations Cup.
*Chile held an edition of the Copa América without scoring a single goal for the 2nd time in their history (after 1917).
*Gabriel Suazo's expulsion (for a double yellow card) after 27 minutes is the earliest of a Chilean player in the Copa América since Leonel Contreras was sent off (for a straight red card) against Uruguay in 1989 after 26 minutes of play.