Argentina vs Colombia

Argentina and Colombia will trade tackles at the Estadio Nacional de Brasilia Mane Garrincha with a place in the Copa America 2021 final at stake.

The Argentineans have hit the ground running at the Copa America 2021 following a 1-1 draw with Chile in their tournament curtain-raiser, racking up a four-game winning streak to reach the Copa America semi-finals for the fourth time in a row. Delivering action from the get-go, ‘La Albiceleste’ have won the first half ‘to nil’ in each of their five Copa America 2021 outings so far, scoring the opener by the 15th minute in three of the last four. Coming into this encounter, Lionel Scaloni’s men are undefeated in 18 consecutive international fixtures (W11, D7) and have never lost to Colombia’s current head coach Reinaldo Rueda (W3, D5). However, Argentina have gone winless in three straight H2H meetings with Colombia (D2, L1) since securing a 2-0 win in a World Cup qualifier back in November 2016.

Meanwhile, the Colombians have broken into the first major tournament semi-finals since their triumphant 2001 Copa America campaign in a most bizarre fashion. Indeed, since eking out a narrow 1-0 win over Ecuador on Matchday 1, they have failed to win any of their subsequent four Copa America matches within regulation time (D2, L2), knocking Uruguay out via penalties last time out. Scoring has been a genuine problem for Colombia this summer, with Rueda’s side netting under 1.5 goals in all five Copa America 2021 fixtures, even though two of their three strikes arrived before half-time. After defying the underdog status against Uruguay, ‘Los Cafeteros’ are desperate to stage another upset. But two of their last three Copa America semi-finals collapses came at the hands of Argentina. That being said, Colombia sailed to a convincing 2-0 H2H win in the Copa America 2019 group stages.