Liverpool ahead Luis Diaz has been in good kind on this event, he’s notched two targets and has precipitated his opponents every kind of issues.

In his final sport towards Panama, he was fouled 4 instances in 65 minutes, earlier than being substituted to get some relaxation in a sport that was already gained.

He was additionally fouled twice towards Brazil and twice towards Costa Rica within the group stage. Throughout his final match towards Uruguay, he was additionally fouled and we anticipate him to be the topic of extra tough remedy from the Uruguayans right here.

Colombia’s standout participant this event has been James Rodriguez. He has assisted 5 targets, in addition to scoring as soon as himself, and is the important thing creator on this Colombian staff.

He was fouled twice towards Panama and thrice towards Brazil, in addition to thrice towards Paraguay within the opening sport – he was additionally fouled twice the final time he performed towards Uruguay.

His distinctive set piece supply means he might nicely search for free kick alternatives and if Colombia can take the lead, he’ll do the identical for the needs of sport administration. We expect he’ll seemingly obtain related remedy to his team-mate Diaz.

Probably the most notable issues about this Copa America is the excessive foul rely. Colombia clocked 20 fouls towards Panama, whereas Uruguay made whopping 26 towards Brazil and gave away 12 in every of their different three video games.

Though they solely dedicated 10 within the final sport they performed towards Colombia, they fouled 21 instances within the sport towards Argentina late final yr and 19 in a pre-tournament pleasant towards Mexico.

With stakes excessive and a spot within the ultimate because the prize, Uruguay will face one other bodily battle towards this Colombian aspect and can look to spoil and disrupt their attacking motion at each alternative.

Though Uruguay didn’t decide up a single reserving of their first two video games, the trajectory has elevated from one towards the USA to a few towards Brazil. Colombia have persistently picked up bookings throughout their 4 video games and picked up two towards each Brazil and Costa Rica.

This line landed within the quarter-final between Uruguay and Brazil and the ultimate group sport between Brazil and Colombia, that are extra indicative of the form of sport we are able to anticipate right here.

Cesar Ramos is the Mexican referee answerable for officiating the sport. He averages 4.23 playing cards per sport throughout his profession and has issued 9 yellow playing cards in his two Copa America video games on this event.

James Rodriguez picked up two assists within the opening sport towards Panama, an help towards Costa Rica and one other two towards Panama once they met once more within the quarter-final.

He’s been an exceptional inventive presence, crafting key possibilities for team-mates all through the event, whereas he averages a powerful 0.43 assists per 90 minutes, slightly below one each two video games.

We’ve touched on the persistent fouling that ought to be current on this sport, which supplies James Rodriguez the right alternative to ship in high quality crosses from set items in addition to open play.

He might nicely be the important thing participant to create a second of brilliance for Colombia’s star strikers to complete the sport off.

The 2 sides have averaged 8.2 corners per match between them during the last 10 video games, with Uruguay incomes 4.5 corners per match and Colombia 3.7.

Either side additionally concede corners with some regularity, with a mean of three.1 corners conceded per sport in that interval. There have been eight corners within the sport between Uruguay and Brazil, and 11 within the sport between Brazil and Colombia, two evenly-matched contests which point out the potential nook rely right here.

In a sport that can seemingly be congested in the course of the park, each side might want to stretch the pitch to create alternatives which can see the flanks closely used – which might result in loads of corners.