Two continental championships happening at the same time, with the one in South America being a bit neglected. Let’s remedy that.One of the favourites to win Copa America are Lionel Messi’s Argentina and last night Gaucho’s made it passed one of the hurdles – they managed to proceed to the quarter-finals by beating Paraguay as a part of group A.##EDITORS_CHOICE##And with that game in his CV, Messi equaled Javier Mascerano record of 147 appearance for the national side. His next cap for will make him the record holder for the sky-blue-and-whites.Since losing in the Copa America semi-final in 2019, this was their 16th match without defeat and last night’s victory in Brasilia was Argentina’s second 1-0 win in a row in this tournament.Gauchos managed to collect seven points out of three games which leaves them top of their group, two points in front of Chile, four points ahead of Paraguay and six ahead of quite disappointing Uruguay.As early as the 10th minute – Argentina went ahead. Alejandro Papu Gomez took a delightful pass from PSG’s Angel Di Maria and chipped the ball over the diving keeper.#CopaAmérica ????Messi. Di María. Papu Gómez. ¡GOLAZO de @Argentina!???????? Argentina ???? Paraguay ????????#VibraElContinente #VibraOContinente pic.twitter.com/Yu2ltmFgWd— Copa América (@CopaAmerica) June 22, 2021 For Argentina, Sergio Aguero made his first international start since November 2019 but was anonymous up front and it was Di Maria and Lionel Messi who stood out.In group B, home side of Brazil qualified for the quarter finals after two games already, earning 6 points. Their next match is against Colombia in two days in Rio De Janeiro.
