This Copa America is made up of 10 teams from South America and 6 teams from Central and North America, so what will be the top 8 places in each region?
As a new America's Cup, how can we infer the knockout places when the previous data is not indicative?
Perhaps the percentage of knockout places in other tournaments will inspire us. This is the horizontal reasoning gameplay of football logical reasoning. Find a match with similar fundamental odds to infer the outcome of the match. The derivative is the whole event.
Round of 32 of the 2022 World Cup
13 teams in Europe
5 in Africa
5 in Asia
5 in South America
4 in North and Central America
Let's take a look at the distribution of the top 16 spots
7 in Europe
2 in Africa
3 teams in Asia (including Australia)
1 team from Central and North America (the venue of the next World Cup is automatically one place less)
2 in South America
Aside from the existence of one more team in the Asian host's halo, the next World Cup will automatically be one less place, which is a new knowledge point, and I just found out.
The other continents are very interesting, and it can be said that they basically advance according to the proportion at the beginning
Specifically, 13 teams in Europe divided by 2 equals 6.5, and 7 teams are promoted. The rest is similar.
It's like our day-to-day investment dividends are proportional.
From the perspective of fairness, proportional dividends mean that investors get corresponding returns according to the share of funds or resources they invest, and more investment will return more, and less investment will return less, reflecting fairness and reciprocity.
The same is true in football, where more teams are promoted, which can enhance the enthusiasm of regional teams to participate.
Back to the game, then at the beginning of the competition, there were 6 teams in North and America, 16 into 8, what is 6 divided by 2?
I am optimistic that there will be at least 3 Central and North American teams in the top 8 of this Copa America, and I don't know if the so-called host halo will be blessed.
So let's take a look at which teams are currently in Central and North America that are expected to qualify?
The United States and Canada are currently in the top two in the standings, Mexico, Panama and Costa Rica are third, and Jamaica is out.
Costa Rica has two giants in Brazil and Colombia, and the probability of qualifying is a bit low, and Uruguay in Panama's group scored a goal difference of 5-0 in the last game, and the probability of qualifying is a bit too low.
Only Mexico is in a better situation, and a win in this game can directly qualify.
Compared with other teams to play god-level performance, fake performance can't be too fake, I think it's more reliable to support Mexico.
Favor Mexico to win 1-0 and advance to the knockout round