Copa América 2024 day-to-day recap: Colombia stands atop Group D after Brazil oversight

Colombia is in the chauffeur’s seat of Group D after Brazil stoppedworking to beat Costa Rica in its Copa América group phase opener on Monday.

Here’s whatever that occurred on the 5th day of group play at Copa América:

Colombia 2, Paraguay 1

• Colombia has now won 14 of its last 19 opening group phase videogames at Copa, going 14-3-2 (W-L-D) (since the group phase started in 1975). It has won its last 4 opening group videogames, with a tidy sheet in 3 of them.
• Colombia has won the last 3 conferences versus Paraguay at Copa América and is unbeaten in its last 6 conferences in all competitors, going 4-0-2 (W-L-D).
• Colombia is on a 24-match unbeaten streak — 19-0-5 (W-L-D) in those videogames — and it has won 9 straight matches.
• James Rodríguez endedupbeing the veryfirst gamer to offer 2 helps in the group phase match Copa América match consideringthat André Carrillo did so with Peru versus Chile in the 2019 edition.
• Néstor Lorenzo has not lost as Colombia’s head coach, now 16-0-5 (W-L-D).
• Paraguay lost its opening group videogame in the Copa América for the veryfirst time consideringthat 1975, when they lost to Colombia 1-0 in the veryfirst Copa with a group phase (now 9-2-8, W-L-D). Paraguay has not beaten Colombia in the Copa América giventhat 2007, when they won 5-0 over Colombia in the group phase.

Brazil 0, Costa Rica

• Brazil is now 10-1-1 (W-L-) all-time vs. Costa Rica (all competitors), and 2-0-1 (W-L-D) vs. them in Copa América history.
• Brazil is now 11-2-4 (W-L-D) in their last 17 matches played on U.S. soil.
• Brazil had 6 corners in the veryfirst half, more than any other group in the veryfirst half this competition.
• Brazil is now 9-3-1 (W-L-D) all-time versus CONCACAF groups in Copa América; this was their veryfirst draw).
• Marquinhos played in his 16th Copa América match, the 3rd most by a Brazilian in the 21st century (Dani Alves, 19; Thiago Silva, 18)
• Costa Rica got a outcome (win or draw) vs. Brazil for the veryfirst time because1960 It had lost 9 straight goinginto Monday.
• Costa Rica is now 1-3-2 (W-L-D) in its opening group phase videogames at Copa América.
• Costa Rica is the just group so far to register absolutelyno shots in the veryfirst half of a match.

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