Brazil into Copa quarters after 1-1 draw with Colombia

Brazil played out an activity loaded 1-1 draw with Colombia in California on Tuesday to set up a mouth-watering Copa America quarter-last against Uruguay. Colombia, who completed top of Gathering D on seven focuses, will confront Panama in the last eight. The match between Colombia, unbeaten since Walk 2022, and five-times World Cup victors Brazil satisfied its firework charging as the different sides attacked each other directly from the opening shot. In a rushed initial fifteen minutes at Levi's Arena, Vinicius Jr was shown a yellow card after unintentionally striking James Rodriguez while tussling over a free ball, a booking which leads the winger out of the Uruguay match. Rodriguez went inside crawls of scoring the opener as he cut the crossbar from the subsequent free kick. However, he was upstaged in the twelfth moment by Raphinha, who whipped a magnificent free kick of his own into the top corner to give Brazil the lead. Colombia thought they had leveled when Davinson Sanchez headed home Rodriguez's perilous cross into the case yet the objective was prohibited for offside after an extended VAR check. Brazil guaranteed for a punishment in the 42nd moment when Daniel Munoz cut down Vinicius in the container yet TV replays showed the Colombia protector got a touch ready. Colombia striker Jhon Cordoba then found a pocket of room on the edge of the area and played a splendid through ball to Munoz, who rifled his work into the net to even out the scores in first-half stoppage time. Regardless of the burning California heat neither one of the sides let the force drop after the break and Raphinha verged on scoring from one more free kick in the 59th moment, terminating only wide of the post. Colombia likewise got their opportunities to score in the last part, awesome of which tumbled to substitute Rafael Borre, who blasted a shot over the crossbar from short proximity. Colombia manager Camilo Vargas must be sharp to keep out Brazil substitute Andreas Pereira's dunking long-range exertion profound into stoppage time, a save which safeguarded the draw and extended Colombia's unbeaten rush to 26 matches.