Copa America: 30/06/07 - 02/07/07

[Ori]

Originally Posted by kompressaur

(edit where did you come from Ori? i cant have refreshed)

what do you mean Komp ?

ps. i think you guys should get some staking plan, then 1, 2 even 5 loses in a row wouldn't be so much painfull for you

[Zozo the Duke]

Brazil – Chile

Pick: Brazil (-1.25)
Odds: 1.82 @ Gamebookers
Stake: 3/10

Brazil lost their first match of this tournament and that was one of the biggest surprises so far. Not that Brazil is unbeatable, but mostly because Mexico was rated as big outsider because of their squad troubles. Brazil started very slow on that match and it was obvious that they miss their stars big time, but also Dunga had some weird decisions about the squad. For example, he is putting Vagner Love in first eleven and he is the weakest player in the whole team, in my opinion. I hope today he will be substituted earlier.

Chile played very bad first half against Ecuador, but after some substitutions, they started to play much better, took control and turned the result in their favor. According to the players that are playing, Brazil is better team, but they showed that this Brazil is not that Brazil we used to watch. Chile’s motivation to play against the strongest national team will be huge and knowing that they already have win, the pressure will be way on Brazil’s side.

Brazil played some good 30 minutes against Mexico, when they dominated the match and created many goal scoring opportunities and scored a goal that was unfairly disallowed. Brazilian players and coach are under huge pressure, because if they fail to win, they could say goodbye to this tournament and that will be start from hell for their new coach Dunga. I think that he learned the lesson from the match against Mexico and he will play the way he played in the last 30 minutes. Although, Chile has very good team, Brazil will be the team who will be controlling the match and taking three points in order to stay in this tournament.

Probable line-ups:

Brazil: Doni, Maicon, Alex, Juan and Gilberto; Gilberto Silva, Mineiro, Elano or Júlio Batista and Anderson or Diego; Robinho and Vágner Love.

Chile: Claudio Bravo; Ormeño, Vargas, Pablo Contreras, Mark González; Matías Fernández, Meléndez or Villanueva, Arturo Sanhueza, Jorge Valdivia; Humberto Suazo and Navia or Juan Lorca

[kompressaur]

FT Brazil 3 - 0 Chile
FT Mexico 2 - 1 Ecuador

Sorry Ori i was just meaning i never saw you there between posts.

[kompressaur]

Just to remind folks that the argentina game is being played in the small hours of tomorrow (Tuesday) morning.

23:30 Paraguay (1.8) Draw (3.75) United States (5)
Argentina (1.36) Draw (5.2) Colombia (12)

[JoseRules]

Argentina are the deserved faves to win this competition and have brought the team to do it. They massacred the USA in the first game and i expect the same to happen against Columbia, who could not have played worse than in the 5-0 loss to Paraguay. With Pato in goal, the best GK in La Liga last season, and Heinze and Ayala in front, they are hardly going to let in a lot of goals. Mascherano, Veron and the master Riquelme in midfield are all brilliant passers of the ball. And finally with any two of Messi, Crespo and Tevez to knock them in. I cannot see this team ever losing if they keep them together for a while. Now is the time to back them for the next World Cup! Columbia are hardly likely to put up a fight. The defending against Paraguay was a joke and i should think they will all be dropped for this game but i can't see anyone stopping these Argies. I am going to have the full ten points on them to win with a -1.5 handicap. The best price i can find is 1.95 with Betsson and i am making this a stone bonkers banker!

[Rissso]

Yes Argentina is in form now. Seems that Colombia will be no problem. But I have a feeling that they won´t win Copa. Happend in the past, they had also very strong team, they were expected to win World Cup. But their heads were up in space, thought that opponents gave up the match before the kick-off. They not even reached the final. This will happen again.