Speaking to reporters in Arizona ahead of Saturday’s third-place match against Colombia at University of Phoenix Stadium, Klinsmann said that he’d like for the United States to play in every Copa America – even if it involves an occasional humbling from a team like Argentina.
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“You learn all the time”, said Messi, who turned 29 on Friday. This year too, Argentina and Chile will be battling out for the coveted trophy.
Another shutout followed in the 2014 World Cup final, which ended in a 1-0 loss to Germany, before an agonising defeat on penalties to Chile in last year’s Copa America following a 0-0 draw.
Argentina expects Messi, Angel Di Maria and Gonzalo Higuain to fire against Chile in the finals. He has no passion.
Their high tempo game on and off the ball will no doubt create more problems for the talent-rich Argentina squad than the hapless display offered up by the United States.
“We will certainly win on Sunday. and if we don’t win, they shouldn’t come back”, Maradona told an Argentinian television network.
He also broke Argentina’s all-time goals record with his 55th worldwide strike in a 4-0 win against the US on Tuesday.
“Our style of play has allowed us to overcome some immensely hard opponents”, Pizzi said.
He even found the time to sign the shirt of an autograph-hunting fan who sprinted onto the pitch at the start of the second half. Will it be Messi delivering Argentina its first title since ’93, ending his and his country’s misery?
“We’ve been in spectacular form up to now, now it’s up to us to do it again on Sunday”.
The game finally did restart, and it didn’t take long for referee Joel Aguilar to become an enemy to Colombia.
Mexico and Colombia were both popular dark horse picks in this event, but Chile knocked both of them off easily in a 7-0 win over Mexico and a 2-0 win over Colombia. “It will help you to always kind of be on the edge with those teams in South America or obviously in a World Cup with all the teams in the world”.
All in all, Colombia’s eleven had a chance, and they displayed an impressive offensive, but it wasn’t strong enough.
Argentina will face Chile in the last game of the centenario at 8p.m.
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The current holders will go into Monday’s final with Argentina as underdogs after already having lost to Argentina in the first round of tournament, but will be buoyed by their triumph in last year’s final.
