The main continental tournament of South America is growing – six teams from CONMEBOL were invited to the 2024 draw at once, and they were not chosen randomly, but completed a full qualification. Thanks to this, there will be more matches, and the competition will become tougher, and not only among teams, but also among the best scorers. Latin American football is a celebration of attack, so every fan should have a favorite among the bright forwards or wingers in these competitions.
Mostbet com UZ sayti already offers to bet on who will win in individual races, upsetting opponents most often. Specialists determined the probability of triumph in this nomination in the form of coefficients – it remains to consider who is expected to achieve the greatest achievements.
Lionel Messi – 4.0
Haters will say that the Argentinian is hugely overrated and at least some of the Ballon d’Or he won should have gone to other players who deserved it too. Fans will argue – Leo not only took eight of the most prestigious individual trophies, but managed to win the nomination, even while playing in MLS, which is completely unheard of! So for this America’s Cup, where he will turn 37, he will arrive in the status of the best football player on the planet, and in addition – the current world champion. Age just doesn’t seem to work on Messi!
However, judging Leo’s recent scoring exploits is not easy considering the level he is playing at right now. 13 goals in 18 MLS games in the last year – is that a lot, considering that the league is not considered top? Here you can add 2 more goals scored in the framework of the North American Champions League, but also against the American team (in total, 3 games were played). As part of the current selection for the World Cup, Messi distinguished himself three more times in 5 matches for the national team. In general, it looks good, but still does not reach the status of a superstar.
But Leo plays for the fact that he plays for the Argentine national team. His team is the main favorite for the draw and is very likely to take part in all the matches, including the final – meaning that the forward will have plenty of time to improve his statistics. Given his status, Messi will definitely not warm the bench, and the partners whose task it will be to carry the ball to his living legend, are of a high enough class not to fail.
Vinicius Junior – 4.5
The Brazilian will be only 24 years old at the America’s Cup, but he is already considered by many to be one of the best players of our time. This is a two-time winner of the Champions League, and in the final of the 21/22 season he personally scored in the final, and this year he was recognized as the best football player of the entire competition. Against the background of this, it is even hard to believe that during his entire career in the national team, he scored only three times, although he appeared on the field 28 times.
Things are going much better in Spain – after missing a large part of the 23/24 season, Viney scored 15 goals in 26 Primera Liga games and added another 6 goals in 10 games in the Champions League. At the same time, the Brazilian is not a classic center forward – he does a lot of work on the wing, which means that he should be forgiven for not being very productive. But there is no doubt that the boy is embarrassed by the modesty of his achievements for his native team, and it is high time for him to try on the role of its real leader.
Brazil have been extremely unconvincing throughout 2023, but the bookies still see them as second favorites for the tournament – so there will be plenty of games. Dorival Junior must find a place on the field for the best player of the season in the Champions League, and there are enough players capable of giving a good pass in the Seleção.
Darwin Nunes – 7.0
Another birthday boy at the tournament in the USA is an almost 25-year-old Uruguayan, for whom Liverpool paid 75 million euros in the summer of 2022. To be honest, a forward for that kind of money should score more, and overall, in two years, Darwin hasn’t scored that much, being, rather, a rotation player. In the 23/24 season in the Premier League – only 22 matches at the start plus 14 appearances as a substitute, and only 11 goals scored. In the Champions League this season, the Merseysiders did not play at all, but in the League, where the opponents’ resistance should be weaker, the statistics are not impressive: 10 games (6 in the base) – 5 goals.
But if Liverpool have Mohamed Salah to score goals, then Nunes is the main hope in the attack for the Uruguayan national team. It is worth noting that they hope for him for a reason: here the successes are much more significant, because the player in the current selection for the World Cup started in all 6 matches and scored 5 goals. If many could create two goals for the Bolivians, with all due respect to the latter, then Darwin excelled in the goals of such opponents as Argentina, Brazil, and Colombia. In short, Marcelo Bielsa knows how to get the most out of this player, and that’s the most important thing.
It remains to add that Uruguay is the third most likely winner of the tournament and is not going to be eliminated early, while Nunes is irreplaceable for this team.
Julian Alvarez – 7.0
Messi is not the only one – if the main star of the national team of Argentina fails, Leo is ready to insure his 24-year-old teammate. At the same time, Alvarez’s situation is very similar to that in which Nunez found himself – playing for a big club (Manchester City), the forward scores very little, so the team has to be pulled by another attacking player, in this case – Holland. At the same time, Julian spends a lot of time on the field: this season in the Premier League, he scored 11 goals, started 31 times and strengthened the game from the bench 5 more times.
Instead, in the Champions League, where the City team fought until the quarter-finals, the Argentine spent a modest 280 minutes – which, surprisingly, helped him demonstrate his talents in the form of 5 goals. In the national team, he plays not only in the attack, but also in the entire midfield, so in this qualification Alvarez, having played all 6 matches, did not score. However, he has 7 goals in 29 career games, so the bookies believe he can shoot.
Conclusion
Among the forwards who will come to this year’s Copa America, there are hardly any who score in every game – even Messi, it seems, can no longer maintain this crazy pace. In such a situation, the winner of the race can be the one whose team reaches the finals – or Nunes, who grows wings in the national team shirt.