I would go a little bit further here. It seems the confrontations in this Copa America have been arranged so as the home team (Venezuela) would have a much easier way through to the finals. It may only be my imagination but something is kind of odd, just take a look in group B and ask yourself, would you prefer to be the 1st or 2nd in that group?

Brazil was once again devastatingly dissapointing. Even though Dunga has not called the best players he could (and he also called a handfull of some I don't see worthy of the national jearsey - but that was his choice!), This team could be playing a much better football. But they have not system, no definite formation and no credibility with the coach, as it seems. Only a bad half time was enough to make Dunga change Anderson for Diego in the first game. Then Anderson started the second game against Chile and a poor half time (not only Anderson's, but the entire team played badly - with the exception of Robinho, as usual), and he was out. In came Julio Batista who, after a mediocre half time against Ecuador was sacked and in came Diego again... And to tell the truth, it's gotta be really hard to be an offensive midfielder - or a forward for that matter - in Dunga's team, playing with 3 deffensive men in the midfield, who miss 2 meter passed to the side.Let's just hope Dunga faces reality and makes some deep changes in that team, or I'm scared of facing ARgentina eventually. It might be a historical game, so hard a beating it will probably be...

As for Argentina, they keep giving me the impression they play knowing they can score whenever they feel like it. It seems they're just asleep and, when the other team scores the first goal (as the USA and Colombia did) they wake up and then the beating begins. It will be hard to take the trophy away from those guys.

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