Copa America 2024: Chile x Argentina, Match Preview, Odds, Team News and Predictions(26/06/2024)

Argentina plays Chile on Tuesday at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, where they may punch their ticket into the Copa America 2024 knockout round.

The defending champions held off a tenacious Canada team to win 2-0 in the tournament opener, while Chile could only draw 0-0 with Peru.

Chile x Argentina Team News

Given that Diego Valdes was substituted at halftime in their last game due to an apparent knock, he may be a question mark.

If Victor Davila, Alexis Sanchez, and Erick Pulgar incur another yellow card on Tuesday, they will all be suspended for their last group game.

With a clean sheet, goalkeeper Claudio Bravo, who is 41 years and 69 days old, became the oldest player to participate in the Copa America this century and the first player over 40 to start a game in this tournament.

With his 35th appearance in this tournament, Argentine captain Lionel Messi broke Sergio Livingstone's Copa America record in their first game.

Scaloni called Valentin Carboni for the first time, but in their debut match, he and fellow 19-year-old Alejandro Garnacho—and Chelsea's Enzo Fernandez—were not utilized as replacements.

Following Julian Alvarez's historic first goal in the Copa America, which stood up as a victory, Lautaro Martinez came on late in the game and scored his sixth goal overall and 25th internationally, surpassing Luis Artime for eighth position in this team's history.

Head To Head And Previous Matches

The Chileans found their scoring touch again in this competition, but that offensive ability was absent on matchday one.

The team under Ricardo Gareca had scored many goals in their three pre-tournament friendlies, but they have now gone three straight Copa America games without scoring since 2021.

Just Oscar Tabarez, Luis Tirado, and Guillermo Stabile have coached in five straight Copa America tournaments; the former Argentine international is the fourth person to do so.

They can win three games in a row in all competitions on Tuesday, their longest streak from November 2022 to June 2023 (five games).

After scoring twice in a 2-0 win against Peru in October 2023, La Roja has lost five straight games when they are level or down at the break.

Against the Argentines, they have won four straight games, including a 1-1 tie in the group stage of 2021.

Although Canada did not make things easy for them, Argentina overcame a few scares and started this competition with a victory.

That was their first Copa America group match victory since 2016, and the past two times they have avoided a loss in their first game of the competition, Argentina has advanced to the championship.

Since their 2-0 loss to Uruguay in a global Cup qualifier in November—the lone loss since losing their first game against Saudi Arabia (2-1) in the 2022 finals—the reigning international champions have won six straight games.

Not including their withdrawal from the 2001 Copa America, Lionel Scaloni's team would go to the knockout round of this competition for the fourteenth time if they win on Tuesday.

La Seleccion will be the first team to top their Copa America group consecutively since 2015 and 2016 if they win this game and Peru and Canada draw.

Although they lost on penalties in the 2015 and 2016 finals, Argentina has never lost a Copa America match against Chile in regular time.

Our Predictions

Argentina to win @1.50 on Sky247.ng

We have the Argentines winning this game even though they were susceptible in transition on matchday one. They have a variety of young and experienced players who can turn the tide of any game.

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