Copa América final 2024: Can Colombia continue historic unbeaten run and upset Argentina?

After La Albiceleste’s 2-0 semifinal victory over Canada, Messi, now 37, acknowledged that “these are the last battles.”

Holding up traffic of the reigning champ is a noteworthy Colombia group that hasn’t tasted rout in that frame of mind in the wake of beating Uruguay 1-0 to arrive at the last, breaking the past public unbeaten record of 27 that had represented 20 years.

Los Cafeteros will be given an extra certainty help given Argentina and Messi have been underneath their best during the competition – Messi scored his most memorable objective against Canada in the elimination round.

On the other hand, it has the impression that these players are attempting to give Messi the perfect farewell. This run has felt like a real team effort, just like the Copa América victory in 2021, which brought an end to the national team’s 18-year trophy drought.

That year, ngel Di Mara made a significant improvement throughout the tournament and scored the game-winning goal in the final. In contrast, Lautaro Martnez has emerged as the golden boot leader in this edition, scoring four goals in five matches.

Messi stated to Fox Argentina, “There is a reason why Colombia hasn’t lost for such a long time.” It is a national team with excellent players, a high level of intensity, and fast, dynamic front-line players.

We’re doing well in the final, which is always a different game. We are as calm as we have been throughout the tournament, taking pleasure in everything that is occurring to us and contemplating the outcome of the final.

Messi remarked, “It’s crazy what this group has done” after his team’s victory over Canada.

He told Optus Sports, “What a fun time.” Everything we are experiencing as a nation, a community, and a group must be enjoyed. Being in another final is not easy, as I stated earlier.

“What we’re doing and what we’ve accomplished is truly challenging.”

Should Argentina win on Sunday, La Albiceleste would rise to Spain’s record between 2008-2012 of winning three straight significant global competitions.

James Rodriguez’s resurgence has been crucial for Colombia not only during their unbeaten streak but also during this Copa América.

When awards season arrives, manager Néstor Lorenzo is likely to be in the running for several trophies for coach of the year. The Argentine manager recently reiterated the significance of captain and veteran Rodrguez to the team.

The former Real Madrid player has been on and off the national team in recent years. He was not selected to play in the Copa América in 2021 because his club career stalled after he left Los Blancos in 2020.

Be that as it may, in an extended, free-wandering job at this Copa, Rodríguez has given six helps – an unequaled record for a solitary version – remembering setting up the victor against Uruguay for Wednesday.

“I’ve been here (with the public group) for almost 13 years needing this,” Rodríguez told TyC Sports subsequent to arriving at the last. ” We are overjoyed.

In the 5-0 quarterfinal victory over Panama, Rodrguez produced a nearly flawless individual performance with a hat trick of assists and a goal.

Surprisingly, Colombia reached the final for the first time in 2001, and the trophy from that year remains the nation’s only Copa América title.

However there will not be another extravagant exchange to Genuine Madrid after this competition, Rodríguez is playing his best football for Los Cafeteros since overwhelming the world at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, during which he won the Brilliant Boot and scored a Puskás Grant winning objective against Uruguay in the quarterfinals.

Rodrguez and the rest of Colombia will be confident of overthrowing defending champion Argentina and being crowned king of the Americas, despite the fact that Colombia finished third in the previous two editions of the Copa América and has, at the very least, guaranteed itself a better position this time around.