Jonathan David lifts Canada over Peru for 1st-ever win at Copa America

Jonathan David scored within the 74th minute, and Canada knocked off Peru 1-0 on Tuesday night time within the Copa America for its first victory over a South American opponent in 24 years.

Peru performed a person brief after Miguel Araujo was given a crimson card within the 59th minute for a studs-up deal with on Jacob Shaffelburg, a name made after a video overview.

Canada bought its first win in 4 matches underneath Jesse Marsch, the American employed as coach final month, and beat a South American workforce for the primary time since a 2-0 victory over Colombia within the 2000 CONCACAF Gold Cup closing. It was additionally Canada’s first-ever victory in a Copa America match.

David’s aim, his twenty seventh for Canada, ended the nationwide workforce’s 391-minute scoreless streak. Twenty-six of his targets have are available in aggressive matches.

“This win means rather a lot. It signifies that we’ve got the whole lot to combat for within the final [Group A] recreation [against Chile] to make it out of the group stage,” David stated. “It was a tough recreation however we managed to get the three factors.”

The sport was paused in first-half stoppage time when an assistant referee working on the non-shaded a part of the stadium collapsed and wanted medical consideration. He bought to his ft briefly and was taken off the sphere in a stretcher. He had been working down the road on the non-shaded a part of the stadium in Kansas Metropolis, Kan.

Canada (1-1), in its first Copa America, rebounded from a gap 2-0 loss to defending champion Argentina, and Peru started with a 0-0 draw towards Chile. The Canadians shut Group A on Saturday towards Chile at Orlando, Fla., the identical day Peru (0-1-1) faces Argentina at Miami Gardens, Fla. The highest two groups from Group A advance to the quarterfinals.

“I take a look at the consequence, and I do know that the blokes are excited to make historical past,” Marsch stated after the win. “That was an enormous second. However I take a look at it extra because the state of affairs that the workforce was in. It was scorching.”

Peru reached the semifinals in 2021 earlier than shedding to Brazil. It had failed to attain in 9 of its final 12 matches.

David scored after Cyle Larin made an extended outlet go to Shaffelburg, who crossed. David took two touches and beat goalkeeper Pedro Gallese from close to the penalty spot, sending the ball in off the far put up. David is 2 targets behind Larin, Canada’s profession scoring chief.

Canada goalkeeper Maxime Crepeau made a clutch diving save in second-half stoppage time, then punched away a free kick.

Argentina 1, Chile 0

Lautaro Martinez scored off a rebound throughout a frantic scramble within the 88th minute, giving defending champion Argentina and Lionel Messi a 1-0 victory over Chile on Tuesday night time that assured a berth within the Copa America quarterfinals.

Messi’s nook kick was despatched towards aim with a glancing header by defender Lisandro Martinez. The ball landed in entrance of goalkeeper Claudio Bravo, the place Argentina’s Giovani Lo Celso and Chile’s Nicolas Fernandez have been crowding the keeper. Lo Celso kicked the ball off Bravo and it rebounded to Chile’s Igor Lichnovsky, who tried to poke it vast.

Lautaro Martinez calmly one-timed that rebound into the roof of the web for his second aim of the event on Argentina’s twenty first shot of the match.

Gamers stood and waited for 3 minutes whereas the aim, Martinez’s twenty sixth for the nationwide workforce, was confirmed in a video overview.

Argentina leads Group A with six factors, adopted by Canada with three, and Chile and Peru with one every. The Albiceleste finishes the primary spherical towards Peru at Miami Gardens, Florida, on Saturday, when Canada meets Chile in Orlando, Florida.

Taking part in a day after his thirty seventh birthday, Messi incessantly flaunted his expertise to spin round and slalom via defenders earlier than an adoring sellout crowd of 81,106 at MetLife Stadium, web site of the 2026 World Cup closing. Argentina dominated 21-3 in pictures and 11-0 in nook kicks. Chile did not take its first try till the 72nd minute.

Messi got here the closest to scoring earlier than Martinez with a 30-yard shot that glanced off the put up to Bravo’s left within the thirty sixth minute. Messi had obtained therapy on the thigh space of his proper leg for almost two minutes after getting kicked by Gabriel Suazo within the twenty fourth.

Nicolas Gonzalez’s shot from one other Messi go within the 62nd was parried off the crossbar by Bravo.

Argentina outshot Chile 17-0 earlier than Rodrigo Echeverria’s 72nd-minute effort following a turnover was saved by Emiliano Martinez. The goalkeeper then made one other diving save on Echeverria within the 76th.

On the forty sixth anniversary of Argentina successful its first World Cup title, the groups returned to the stadium the place Chile beat Argentina on penalty kicks within the 2016 Copa America closing. That defeat prompted Messi to announce his worldwide retirement solely to reverse his resolution seven weeks later.

Not less than 90% of the followers wore Argentina jerseys, most with Messi’s identify and No. 10.

Bravo, at 41 the oldest participant in Copa America historical past, had eight saves in his one hundred and fiftieth worldwide look. He and Messi, former Barcelona teammates, spoke with one another whereas main their groups onto the sphere for the nationwide anthems.

There have been some small brown patches behind one aim on a grass area put in at a stadium the place the same old floor is synthetic turf. The floor was slender, with building scheduled to permit a wider area for the World Cup.