This is looking more and more like Argentina's year to break out of their Copa Ámerica slump. They have really picked up form against Paraguay in the semi-final, and hope to carry that form to the final on Saturday against Chile. 

It was a very entertaining first half of football. Argentina scored two goals in the first half hour, then Paraguay pulled one back right on halftime. It was a very possession based match. In the first half both sides were waiting for the right ball to go through or waiting for someone to make a hard run to get into a scoring position, unlike most South American soccer games. Paraguay in the first half, played very well. Holding up possession, not letting Messi completely destroy them, and overall only being down by one at halftime. Messi was brilliant the entire game and not even the best in the world can stop his quality so knowing that in the first half Argentina scored off a set piece and an unstoppable Messi pass, Paraguay played very well. In the second half, just two minutes in, Argentina proved too much quality for the Paraguayan side. Maybe it was the tired legs of the Paraguayans. Argentina did have more rest than the Paraguay men and also could arguably say were in better condition physically. In the second half you could clearly tell the Paraguayans ran out of steam very quickly. It may have been from discouragement from the Di Maria goal two minutes after the break. 

Argentina eventually went on to tally goal after goal practically tearing apart the Paraguayan side. The goalscorers for Argentina were; Marcos Rojo (15'), Javier Pastore (27'), Ángel Di Maria (47', 53'), Sergio Aguero (80'), Gonzalo Higuaín (84'). The goalscorer for Paraguay was Lucas Barrios (43’).

Once again, Sergio Aguero was on the scoresheet for Argentina. A much improved Aguero from last years world cup when he was not 100% fit. Gonzalo Higuaín also putting one on the board off of a spectacular rebound. 

Ángel Di Maria was spectacular, scoring twice, and assisting on a beautiful cross to find teammate Sergio Aguero to head one home. 

Lionel Messi was also spectacular being the focal point of pretty much every attack Argentina had. The Barcelona attacker failed to score, but he did pretty much everything else. Feeding Pastore 27 minutes in with an inch-perfect through ball. Messi's brilliance played a vital part in Argentina's second half breakout. 

All of the Argentine goals in this contest were not all that pretty. The play up to the goals were magnificent, but the goals were not scored on first time hits or outside of the box finishes. All the goals they scored were gritty, dirty goals. Five out of the six goals started with Lionel Messi, who finished again without a goal, but he created five chances and racked up a trio of assists. Those three assists came off beautiful passes by Messi to lead to half of the Argentina goals.

In the end Argentina proved way too much for surprise semi finalists Paraguay. They have a lot more individual quality and team chemistry. Paraguay failed to really put any pressure on Argentina in the second half, which led to a second half blowout. 

This is the second international cup final Argentina has been to in 2 years. Can they capitalize this time, against Chile on Saturday?