The
#USMNT
have one win in their last seven matches against teams going to the 2022 World Cup. They haven’t scored in the other six:
0-0 vs. Saudi Arabia
0-2 vs. Japan
0-0 vs. Uruguay
3-0 vs. Morocco
0-2 vs. Costa Rica
0-0 vs. Mexico
0-2 vs. Canada
What are "late and close" situations? They are defined as the last 2 minutes of the final quarter when the game is within 4 points.
And this season, nobody is better in "late and close" situations than
#Timberwolves
PG D'Angelo Russell (min. 20 FGA).
James Rodríguez's is the first player on record (since 2011) with six assists in a single edition of a Copa America, surpassing Lionel Messi (five assists in 2021).
#URUCOL
#CopaAmerica
Sergiño Dest completed 27 of 28 first-half passes, including his first 26, and No. 26 was the most important on a headed assist to Christian Pulisic.
He was also tied with Tyler Adams for the team lead in touches (53) as the
#USMNT
attacked up the right.
🇺🇸 USA 0-1 Uruguay 🇺🇾
Uruguay go through at the top of Group C, and the United States crash out after their goalkeeper attempted more passes than every one of his midfield or forward teammates in this match.
#CopaAm
érica
#USAURU
UAB's Alex Wright may not be the first defensive line prospect that comes to mind when thinking about the 2022 NFL Draft's best.
But his size, tape and stats all suggest he belongs.
@realcorykinnan
explains why Wright could be a steal on Day 2 ⬇
🇺🇾 Uruguay 0-1 Colombia 🇨🇴 (FT)
Long live James Rodríguez's left foot
Long live defending a lead with 10 men
Long live Colombia's unbeaten streak
Long live Copa nights.
#URUCOL
#CopaAmerica2024
NEWS: The
@nyjets
have signed EDGE John Franklin-Myers to a contract extension.
Franklin-Myers leads a Jets DL unit that has the highest 1-on-1 pass rush win rate this season.
#TakeFlight
Yunus Musah 1st half vs. England
3/5 duels won
2 possessions won
3/3 passes inside the final third
1 chance created
A little bit of everything from the
@valenciacf_en
man.
🇺🇾 Uruguay 0-0 Brazil 🇧🇷 (Uruguay advance 4-2 on pens)
A country with a population of three million is probably used to being a man down.
10-man Uruguay are through to the semis.
#URUBRA
#CopaAmerica2024
The Potter-Pulisic connection
That goal against Wolves was his first of the season.
It was his 20th in the Premier League. Pulisic's xG is 20.02. Pure American efficiency.
It's three in a row for Phil Neville's Inter Miami. They defeated the Eastern Conference's top team at the weekend.
They've won each of their last three MLS games 2-1 ☝️
Disjointed, sloppy, Copa America-y – pick your adjective.
The combined 71.9% passing accuracy is the worst in a first half at the tournament. The worst in any half was the second half of Uruguay-USA (70.3%).
#URUBRA
#CopaAmerica
The U.S. completed 75.4% of their passes in the Copa America, ahead of only Ecuador and Peru.
Weston McKennie didn't attempt 70 passes in the tournament, and Christian Pulisic lost possession as many times as he attempted a pass tonight (25 each).
Touches in the opposition box:
#USMNT
13, Netherlands 8.
Shots: Netherlands 5, U.S. 2.
The U.S. are requiring 2.48 TiOB per shot at this tournament, which is second most ahead of only Croatia.
#NEDUSA
#FIFAWorldCup
After the first half, Weston McKennie leads all United States players in:
Touches (33)
Possessions won (3)
Passes inside the final third (8) Final third entries (4)
After Colombia's opening goal, James Rodríguez has twice as many assists as anyone else at the Copa America, and his xA trails only Lionel Messi.
#COLPAN
#CopaAmerica2024
Uruguay and Brazil combined for 188 touches in their opponents' penalty area during group play. Tonight, more than an hour into the match, they have a combined 14.
#URUBRA
#CopaAmerica
Cincinnati (4) 3-3 (5) Inter Miami
Inter Miami still hasn't lost with Messi and will play for a 2nd trophy of the season after coming from 2-0 down on two Messi assists, taking an extra-time lead, blowing it, and advancing in penalties in the
#USOpenCup
semis.
Yes it was a 10-man opponent for half the match, but there's no discounting Valverde finding seams as Colombia put men behind the ball. He connected on 92.1% of final-third passes with only one of those going backward. The tournament's final-third passing accuracy is 65.2%.
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First time since 1966 (27 World Cup matches) the
#USMNT
haven't conceded a shot on target in the first-half.
Wales had just two off-target shots in the opening half (0.2 xG).
That's 13 goal involvements in eight matches for Messi at Inter Miami. The second came seven minutes into stoppage time to send the match to extra time. The man knows we've got a Hollywood strike on and need to get our drama somewhere.
The combined overall first-half passing accuracy (89.2%) and final-third passing accuracy (80.8%) of Argentina and Colombia were the highest of the tournament, as was Colombia's final-third passing accuracy (83.3%) for a first half by one team.
#ARGCOL
#CopaAmerica2024
🇦🇷 Argentina 2-0 Canada 🇨🇦 (FT)
The 2-0 scoreline reasserts itself 19 days later, and the top team in the world is a game away from a third straight major tournament title.
#ARGCAN
#CopaAmerica2024
Copa America chances created leaders: James Rodríguez (14), Lionel Messi (11), Nicolás de la Cruz (10).
10 of James' 14 have come from set-pieces, which account for 13.7% of the set-piece chances created by every player at the tournament.
#COLPAN
#CopaAmerica2024
From
@OptaJoao
, 15% of Brazil's passes against Colombia were long balls. That's Brazil's highest percentage since March 2015 (18% in a friendly against Chile).
#BRACOL
#CopaAm
érica
🇦🇷 Argentina 1-0 Colombia 🇨🇴 (AET)
Argentina never trailed in this tournament and are the first South American side to win continental titles around a World Cup for three straight major tournament trophies.
#ARGCOL
#CopaAmerica2024
🇧🇷 Brazil 1-1 Colombia 🇨🇴
Brazil weren't able to create much from open play, and they get Uruguay in the quarters while Group D winners Colombia have Panama after extending their unbeaten run to 26.
Will we get a rematch of this game in the semis?
#BRACOL
#CopaAm
érica
Gerardo Martino says Chicharito won't be going to the World Cup.
The Mexico manager says he is "simply going with other forwards" despite Chicharito having an excellent season with LA Galaxy.
🇨🇴 Colombia 3-0 Panama 🇵🇦(HT)
Colombia have seven first-half goals at the Copa America. No other team has more than four. James Rodríguez has been involved in all three tonight.
#COLPAN
#CopaAmerica2024
Messi is back, and for the first time in the tournament he's paired with Lautaro Martínez in the starting XI.
Pre-match facts, live data and chalkboards for your own analysis 👉
#ARGECU
#CopaAm
érica
🇨🇴 Colombia 2-1 Paraguay 🇵🇾
James Rodriguez with two assists, Colombia extend their unbeaten streak to 24 matches, but two-thirds of the possession didn't result in the kind of attacking numbers they'd like.
#CopaAm
érica
#COLPAR
10 years on from winning the World Cup Golden Boot, can James Rodríguez lead Colombia to a second continental title?
@Matt_Furniss
tells the story of James from 2014 until now and dives into the numbers that have made him so dangerous at
#CopaAmerica2024
:
🇻🇪Venezuela 1-1 (3-4 pens) Canada 🇨🇦
90 minutes of running, take a deep breath, drill a few pens, advance to the semis for a rematch with the top-ranked team in the world.
The Copa America last four won't be all CONMEBOL teams.
#VENCAN
#CopaAmerica2024
Bears QB Justin Fields attempted 11 passes and was sacked three times tonight. It's the first time a starting NFL QB attempted 11 or fewer passes and was sacked at least three times since Bears QB Mitch Trubisky (seven attempts, four sacks) on Oct. 22, 2017.
#CHIvsGB
🇦🇷 Argentina 2-0 Canada 🇨🇦
Was it clinical? No. Was it dominant? It got there.
Argentina's bid for a third straight major tournament title is on.
#ARGCAN
#CopaAm
érica
🇺🇾 Uruguay 0-1 Colombia 🇨🇴 (HT)
There's a shade under an 80% likelihood of a penalty being converted in this sport. With Colombia at this tournament, a set-piece of any kind is becoming nearly as dangerous.
#URUCOL
#CopaAm
érica
12 of Rodrigo De Paul's 33 successful first-half passes have been to either Lionel Messi or Julián Álvarez, including the assist that's the difference in this match. No other Argentine player has supplied more than five to the two forwards.
#ARGCAN
#CopaAmerica2024
🇺🇸 United States 2-0 Bolivia 🇧🇴
20-6 shots, 15-0 shots inside the box, 35-1 touches in opposition box.
No matter how you slice it, this was only ever going one way.
#USABOL
#USMNT
#CopaAm
érica
🇨🇴 Colombia 5-0 Panama 🇵🇦
Colombia have scored 11 goals from 7.34 xG for the highest overperformance of the tournament.
Those goals have come from 19 shots on target for the best ratio after Costa Rica (two goals from two shots on target).
#COLPAN
#CopaAmerica2024
Teams at the
#FIFAWorldCup
yet to concede a non-penalty goal:
1.
#USMNT
End of list.
But their 1.95 non-pen xG against ranks seventh at the tournament behind Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, France, Ecuador and England.
Patrick Cantlay & Xander Schauffele have won 6 of 9 matches together at the Ryder & Presidents Cups, including all 5 foursomes’ sessions.
Schauffele/Cantlay vs. McIlroy/Fleetwood is the marquee event of the Ryder Cup's opening matches.
All the facts ⬇️
Dest with a first half to remember, Adams with his standard 90 minutes to remember, and the
#USMNT
are back in the round of 16 set up for a shot at a win to remember.
🇺🇾 Uruguay 5-0 Bolivia 🇧🇴
Uruguay have started a Copa America with consecutive wins for the first time since 1995. They went on to win that tournament.
#URUBOL
#CopaAm
érica
LAFC 3-3 Philadelphia Union (
#LAFC
win the
#MLSCup
Final 3-0 on pens)
What looked like a stoppage time of extra time winner followed by a stoppage time of extra time equalizer followed by pens. And that’s just the half of it.
A game where the graphics can only tell you so much:
Argentina haven't conceded a goal in their last five
#CopaAm
érica matches against CONCACAF teams.
Time to get going in Atlanta with the favorites kicking things off against Canada in Group A.
#ARGCAN
🇧🇷 Brazil 1-1 Colombia 🇨🇴 (HT)
A free-kick off the bar, a free-kick goal, a disallowed goal, a goal goal – football is showing up today after a grim Monday.
45 more minutes, please.
#BRACOL
#CopaAm
érica
Messi and Miami keep on rolling but the stats tell a slightly different story than the 3-1 scoreline suggests.
They are now nine points away from the playoffs with nine games to play.
🇧🇷 Brazil 0-0 Costa Rica 🇨🇷
Seven Brazilian players had an individual xG higher than Costa Rica, but Patrick Sequeira kept his fourth straight clean sheet.
Game on in Group D.
#BRACRC
#CopaAm
érica
🇦🇷 Argentina 0-0 Colombia 🇨🇴 (HT)
Colombia came out on the front foot, but they don't have anything to show for it and it was actually Argentina with a slight xG edge in the first half.
#ARGCOL
#CopaAmerica2024
🇻🇪 Venezuela 1-0 Mexico 🇲🇽
A good start to the second half, a penalty scored, a penalty saved, hold on for dear life, keep holding on for dear life, advance to the knockout stage.
Easy as that for Venezuela.
#VENMEX
#CopaAmerica2024
Argentina? Uruguay? Colombia? Canada?
The supercomputer is sticking with Argentina, but who do you have?
Full predictions page plus zones of control interactives, player and team stats, and everything we've written about the tournament:
Being pressed wasn't an issue for
#USMNT
during qualifying ⬇️⬇️⬇️
First half today:
Interceptions: Japan 17-4 USA.
Possessions won in the final third: Japan 8-2 USA.
We can all agree titles must be won for a team to be considered a dynasty. But does a team need to win titles to be remembered as an offensive dynasty?
@matissa15
looks back at the Suns of the 2000s:
Mexico enjoying 62.6% of the ball in the first half against Poland.
They have had over 100 more touches than Poland in the first half.
No breakthrough yet though.
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Colombia have scored a tournament-high 11 goals. Uruguay's one conceded is tied for the low.
They've split four meetings in single-elimination
#CopaAmerica
rounds with two wins each.
So what's about to break?
Pre-match facts & live data 👉
#URUCOL
Patrick Mahomes likes the way his Kansas City Chiefs pulled out an overtime win over the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl 58.
In claiming his third Super Bowl MVP award, Mahomes went 34 of 46 for 333 yards, two touchdowns and an interception. He rushed for 66 yards.
🇧🇴 Bolivia 1-3 Panama 🇵🇦
Panama did what they had to tonight, just as they did against the U.S.
Barring a Costa Rica miracle, the two Concacaf teams headed to the quarters are Panama and Canada.
#CopaAm
érica
#BOLPAN
We know this is the last time we will see Ángel Di María in a starting XI of a competitive match for Argentina. What about Lionel Messi?
Pre-match facts and live data all game 👉
#ARGCOL
#CopaAmerica2024
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The 'boring' but effective Louis van Gaal vs. Gregg Berhalter and his formidable midfield
The preview:
Euros days, Copa nights here in the Western Hemisphere.
Take a breath after that Netherlands-Turkey second half, then get up to speed on Marcelo Bielsa's Uruguay ahead of the Uruguay-Brazil main event tonight.
#CopaAmerica24
#URUBRA
MD1 of
#CopaAm
érica is in the books. Costa Rica holding Brazil to a draw dropped Brazil from nearly 1-in-4 to win the tournament to 18.1%.
Who's on the rise? Argentina, Uruguay, USA, Colombia & Mexico:
The Bengals had the fourth-lowest pressure rate in the NFL this season as Zac Taylor devised ways for Joe Burrow to get rid of the ball quicker.
@DougKyed
analyzes how Taylor transformed the Bengals' front with a quick-pass approach.
According to the predictor, the
#USMNT
have a 34.9% chance of returning to the quarterfinals 20 years after that win over Mexico and narrow loss to Germany.
#NEDUSA
#FIFAWorldCup
🇺🇾 Uruguay 2-0 Bolivia 🇧🇴 (HT)
#USMNT
fans may be watching a debate right now, but for any of them watching this match, there's little debate which Group C team is most convincing.
Uruguay look like legit Copa America contenders.
#URUBOL
#CopaAm
érica
Colombia are unbeaten in 26 matches. If that extends to 27, the streak will face perhaps its most difficult test yet in a semi-final against Uruguay or Brazil.
First things first: Panama.
#COLPAN
#CopaAmerica2024
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