Copa America 2015 - June 11th/July 4th 2015

A)1 Player I didn't choose gets top goalscorer
B)1 Player gets Dead Heat with another play I didn't choose.

Don;t suppose there was a Racing Post preview pullout or anything to read?

ARGENTINA have had to wait 22 long years since their last Copa America success, but the World Cup finalists are being well backed to finally end the trophy drought.

Odds of 11-5 were freely available earlier this week, although that has been snapped up on the eve of the tournament and even the 2-1 was too tempting for punters with Argentina now 15-8.

Lionel Messi is the 7-2 favourite to be the top goalscorer at the Copa America with treble-winning Barcelona team-mate Neymar next on the list at 6-1.

Neymar's Brazil will be aiming for redemption following their World Cup humiliation at the hands of Germany in last year’s World Cup semi-finals and Dunga’s side are 4-1 alongside hosts Chile.

Colombia are rated 6-1 shots with captain Falcao 20-1 to take the top goalscorer honours.

The late running of the Champions League final this season means I haven't had as much time as I'd like to research the Copa America.

And when I finally got started, I found myself hopelessly distracted by a map of Chile on Wikipedia. What a weirdly-shaped country it is – a long, thin snake snoozing at the side of South America.

So with that in mind – along with the fact that the tournament mascot is a young culpeo fox named Zincha – who's going to win the thing?

Wes Morgan's had a memorable 2015 helping Leicester stay in the Premier League but we can safely rule out his Jamaica side and focus on the big guns.

I've heard a lot about how crucial home advantage could be for Chile – everyone else will be freaked out by playing in such a narrow country, presumably – but remember how that worked out for Brazil at the World Cup?

Both Chile and Colombia gave Brazil a scare before their semi-final drubbing against Germany but I still reckon Argentina are a cut above the rest of South America (and Jamaica).

They're in a decent group, with a Luis Suarez-less Uruguay, Paraguay and Jamaica, and key men Lionel Messi and Sergio Aguero finished the season brilliantly.

Just in case they are short of goals, Carlos Tevez has been brought back into the fold by new gaffer Gerardo Martino. Maybe Tevez can cheer up Angel di Maria with tales of rejuvenating a flagging career by leaving Manchester.

The Golden Boot looks a half-decent betting heat with Argentina's Messi, Aguero, Tevez and Gonzalo Higuain up against Neymar, Alexis Sanchez, Carlos Bacca, Edinson Cavani, Radamel Falcao and James Rodriguez.

I'm going for Aguero, whose goals-per-minute ratio in the Premier League is ridiculously good.

There has to come a time when Messi gets bored of scoring bundles of goals – and he comes into the Copa after a goal drought of, er, one game – so I reckon it's Aguero's turn to fill his boots in the group stage.

There's no denying the Manchester City man's eye for goal – in fact, I'd go so far as to call him a culpeo fox in the box.

xredmanlfcx wrote: »

Just got onto PaddyPower's live help chat.

The reply, "It's only available for a certain number of customers".

Seems you're one of the lucky ones! Us peasants dont get anything!! :rolleyes:

shmeee wrote: »

Chile on a drift all evening, 8/13 now for the win.

Was gonna go in on them but I'm on the fence now.