Canada advanced this Saturday to the quarter-finals of the Copa America 2024 drawing 0-0 with Pepper in Orlando, during the third and final date of group A in which Argentinathe continental champion, finished first.

The “Canucks”, absolute beginners in the Conmebol national team tournamentthey signed the pass at the Inter&Co Stadium, home of Orlando City of the MLS, in a frictional match with few goal situations, and largely favored by the expulsion of the Chilean full-back Gabriel Suazo at 27 minutes.

THE The Albiceleste, who at the same time beat Peru 2-0 in Miamitook first place in the bracket with a perfect score, while the Canadians ranked second with 4 units.

Pepper And Perueliminated, barely reached 2 and one point respectively.

In the quarter-finals, Argentina will face the second of group B, Thursday in Houston, while Canada He will do it with the first of this touch, Friday in Arlington (Texas).

The stadium's 25,500 purple chairs, in the colors of Orlando City, were completely red in front of the massive presence of Chilean supporters who continued to support the team with their traditional war cry “Chi Chi Chi Le Le Le.. .Viva Chile.

But La Roja could not respond to this encouragement because it sinned again with an unproductive attack and with the expulsion of the left-back. Gabriel Suazo at 27 minutes, which completely compromised the goal of reaching the quarter-finals.

The progress of a good part of the first 45 minutes was interrupted and unproductive due to repeated fouls, with alternating passes of the ball but without clarity.

Victor DavilaIn the 20th minute, with a half-chalaca that narrowly missed the left post, La Roja created the only goal situation they had in the first half. The rest of the Chilean match was a draw at the Canadian sites.

But if The Red victory was urgent, his plans collapsed with the expulsion of Suazo for a fault on Richmond Laryée.

The Toulouse player received a first yellow card in the 11th minute, then in the 27th, in a game at the speed of Laryaeahad no choice but to throw the Canadian's body to stop the attack.

If the situation with the expulsion became dramatic, the story could have been worse for La Roja without the goalkeeper Gabriel Ariasreplace Claudio Bravocontained two plans of Eustaquioat 41 years old, and Jacob Schaffelburgat 45+2, which could have changed the course of the game.

Canada They qualified for the quarter-finals with a draw and they gambled on that in the second half, with a lot of caution in handling the ball and without feeling like an extra man on the pitch.

Pepper He had to spend money and he tried to do so with the entry of Marco Bolados for Vargas in the 46th place, but the efforts of the Colo Colo striker had no echo against the North defense. American well-established.

Ben Brereton He replaced Dávila at 76 and was also not an offensive solution for La Roja. Canada He defended the zero of his goal well and ended up settling for the point to seal an unexpected historic ranking in the quarter-finals of the America's Cup.

For Pepperunder the orders of the Argentinian Ricardo Gareca Since the end of January, the elimination has been a hard blow for their prestige and pride, due to the double continental championship in 2015 and 2016 led by their Golden Generation.

La Roja had not been eliminated in the group stage since the Peru-2004 edition.

Canada: Maxime Crépeau – Alistair Johnston, Moise Bombito Lumpungu, Derek Cornelius, Alphonso Davies – Jonathan Osorio, Stephen Eustáquio, Richmond Laryea (Tajon Buchanan 76), Jacob Schaffelburg (Liam Millar 65) – Jonathan David, Cyle Larin (Tani Oluwaseyi 76).

DT: Jesse Marsch.

Pepper : Gabriel Arias – Mauricio Isla, Igor Lichnovsky, Guillermo Maripán, Gabriel Suazo – Rodrigo Echeverría, Marcelino Núñez (Erick Pulgar 46 years old), Darío Osorio (Thomas Galdames, 31 years old), Alexis Sánchez, Víctor Dávila (Ben Brereton, 77 years old) – Eduardo Vargas (Marcos Bolados, 46 years).

DT: Sergio Santín.

Arbitrator: Wilmar Roldán (Colombia).