Copa America Final Preview: Argentina vs. Brazil!

Copa America Final Preview: Argentina vs. Brazil! The 2021 Conmebol Copa America will come to its final conclusion tonight.

Fierce international rivals Argentina and Brazil will meet in the Copa America final. These great nations will be led by their influential skippers Lionel Messi and Neymar, respectively.

Here are some statistics about this fixture before the final itself.

• Brazil and Argentina will meet for the 34th time at the Copa America. Brazil won 10 games, Argentina won 15 and the rest of the games finished level. This is the eighth time they have played in Brazil and the hosts have never lost.
• Argentina has lost the last 6 finals they have played at senior level (Copa America 2004, 2007, 2015, 2016, Confederations Cup 2005 and the World Cup 2014). Three of these defeats were against Brazil (Copa America 2004, 2007 and Confederations Cup 2005).
• Brazil is unbeaten in 6 games against Argentina in the CONMEBOL Copa America (3 wins, 3 draws). Their last defeat came in 1993 (3-2). Brazil is also unbeaten against Argentina in 7 games in all competitions (5 wins, 2 draws).

• Argentina has won only 1 of their last 19 visits to Brazil (4 draws, 14 losses). Their only win was a friendly at the Maracaná in 1998.
• Brazil and Argentina meet for the 13th time at the Maracaná: Brazil has won 7, Argentina 2 and there have been 3 draws. The last meeting came in 1998 and was the last win for Argentina (1-0 in a friendly). This will be the fourth meeting of the two at the stadium in the CONMEBOL Copa America: Brazil won 2 (1979 and 1989) and drew the third (1983).
• Brazil are unbeaten in 26 games at home in the CONMEBOL Copa America (17 wins, 9 draws). They have only lost 2 of 46 games (31 wins, 13 draws) played at home in the competition: against Paraguay (1-2 in 1949) and Peru (1-3 in 1975).
• Argentina has only lost one of their last 6 games against the hosts at the CONMEBOL Copa America (3 wins, 2 draws). This defeat came in 2019 against Brazil (2-0).
• Lionel Scaloni and Tite will meet for the fourth time. Brazil has won twice (1-0 in 2018 and 2-0 in 2019) while Argentina has won once (1-0 in November 2019).  This Argentine win was the last defeat Tite has suffered as Brazil boss.

• Lionel Messi and Neymar have met on 5 occasions; the Argentina has won 3 and the Brazilian 2. For their respective national teams each has won twice, while the last game was the final of the 2011 World Club Cup in 2011 (4-0).

Copa America Final Preview: Argentina vs. Brazil!