Argentina beat Canada to reach Copa America final

Lionel Messi and Julian Alvarez scored in Argentina’s semi-final win over Canada on Tuesday in New Jersey, which sent them to the Copa America final. Argentina beat Canada to reach Copa America final.

Argentina beat Canada to reach Copa America final

Even though Argentina has won a joint-record 15 Copa titles and has been to six finals in the last eight years, Jacob Shaffelburg missed two great chances in the first 20 minutes. Alvarez scored in the 22nd minute after slipping past two players. Rodrigo De Paul set him up. It was Argentina who took the lead.

Winners of the 2022 World Cup In the 44th minute, Messi made a chance to make Argentina’s lead bigger when he was in the area, but he missed the goal. Argentina slowly took back control of the game.

During the extra time in the first half, Jonathan David dodged his opponent to catch the ball on the end of a long throw. Emiliano Martinez did save his close-range shot, though. After that, Messi scored Argentina’s second goal in the 51st minute by tipping Enzo Fernandez’s shot over Maxime Crepeau.

With 14 goals, Messi is now tied for fifth place in the Copa America scoring record with Eduardo Vargas of Chile and Paolo Guerrero of Peru.

With his 109th goal for Argentina, the 37-year-old beat Ali Daei of Iran to the top spot in the international scoring list. Real Madrid’s Messi is behind Ronaldo, who has scored 130 goals. Tani Oluwaseyi, a replacement from Canada, tried to score against Martinez in the 89th minute, but her header missed the goal. This made Argentina’s two-goal lead look weak.

Argentina will play either Uruguay or Colombia in the Florida final on Sunday. Those teams are set to play on Wednesday.