Brazil beat Colombia 2-1 on Thursday and continues with a perfect score in Group B of the CONMEBOL Copa América 2021. Despite the defeat and thanks to the early draw between Ecuador and Peru 2-2, Colombia also secured its ticket to the quarterfinals.
At a date of the elucidation of the series, Brazil has 9 points. Behind come Colombia and Peru with four units and Ecuador and Venezuela with two points.
On Sunday, on the last day of Group B, in matches to be played simultaneously at 9:00 p.m. GMT, Brazil will face Ecuador in Goiania and Peru against Venezuela in Brasilia.
Colombia, which ended its participation in the first phase, will have to wait to find out where in the series it advances to the quarterfinals, but it will no longer be able to be second behind Brazil.
The coffee team had second place in hand this Thursday but was damaged and ended up suffering a defeat against Brazil in Rio de Janeiro.
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- Colombia scored five goals to Brazil in the Tite era. No other team scored as many goals for the Brazilian team in the same period.
- Brazil lost only two of the 11 games it played against Colombia in the history of CONMEBOL Copa América (8V 1E). The two defeats were in Chile, in the 1991 and 2015 editions. In addition, today was the third match between the teams on Brazilian soil in the tournament and Brazil never lost (2V 1E).
- In addition to breaking Brazil’s unbeaten six-game winless match, Colombia was the first team to go into halftime beating the Brazilian team since Argentina did so in November 2019 (both 1-0). However, Argentina ended up winning that match (1-0) and Colombia suffered the comeback (2-1 for Brazil).
- Casemiro’s goal at 99:22 was the second goal later converted into a CONMEBOL Copa América match since at least 2011. In this interval, Chile’s Arturo Vidal’s goal against Bolivia in the 2016 edition at 99:48 it is still the latest goal.
- Tite surpassed Sebastião Lazaroni as the second coach with the most CONMEBOL Copa América matches without defeats (8 to 7). The only one who remains above Tite is Mario Zagallo, who did not lose in 12 appearances in the tournament (10V 2E).
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