Costa Rica does the heroic thing in Copa América and manages to match Brazil without finishing on goal

This Monday, the Costa Rican team knew how to suffer and endure the result by drawing 0-0 with its counterpart from Brazil during the debut of both teams in the Copa América 2024 at the SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles, California.

With a show of sacrifice, effort and also a lot of fortune, Costa Rica, led by Argentine Gustavo Alfaro, were able to face a Brazil team that accumulated a total of 19 shots although only three were on goal.

Despite this, Brazil claimed to have achieved victory in three particular plays that marked the course of the match: a goal disallowed for supposed offside, an alleged handball by Costa Rican Juan Pablo Vargas inside the area that was not sanctioned as a penalty and a shot from outside the area by Lucas Paquetá that crashed into the vertical of goalkeeper Patrick Sequeira.

In the case of offside, a free kick from the right was taken by Raphinha in the 29th minute, culminating with Marquinhos pushing the ball into the net but apparently Vinícius Jr, who was not involved in the play but had the intention of searching for the ball. , ended up being responsible for the annulment of the goal.

Additionally, another questionable decision occurred after the hand ball inside the area by Costa Rica defender Juan Pablo Vargas, which again rejected the VAR.

With fortune in the hands of Brazil’s defensive siege, in the 72nd minute Paquetá launched a missile that Sequeira could not stop but the ball hit the goal post and the rebound was cleared by the Central Americans.

But in addition to the controversy that surrounded the clash, Sequeira’s performance was also fundamental, with key saves against shots from Vinícius Jr., Savio or Endrick that took care of the zero.

Brazil’s performance was such that they accumulated 74% of the possession in the match, with 695 passes and an accuracy of 90% effectiveness, but despite this the dominance did not translate into three points for the five-time champions of the World Cup. world.

In this way, Brazil and Costa Rica get their first point in the Copa América 2024 and are positioned behind Colombia, which in the first hour had a clear dominance over Paraguay but in the end achieved the victory by the minimum 2-1.

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