Argentina vs. Canada Prediction: Copa America 2024 Betting Odds

The Argentines are priced as -300 favourites, the Canadians +875 and a draw at +425.

Argentina vs. Canada Odds

This is the opening match of the Copa America with 16 teams competing. Canada is debuting in the tournament and got in with a 2-0 playoff victory over Trinidad and Tobago on March 23 in the Nations League. The Canadians and Argentines, who have won this title 15 times including the last Copa America in 2021, are in Group A with Peru and Chile.

Argentina is the +175 overall tournament favourite, -140 to reach the final, -400 to win Group A and -5000 to advance out of the group stage. Canada is +8000 to win the Copa, +2500 to reach the final, +1100 to win Group A and +190 to advance.

For Thursday’s match on the draw no bet odds, Argentina is -1200 and Canada +625. The total is set at 2.5 goals, with the over a -125 favourite and under +100. To score first, Argentina is -350 with Canada +310 and no goals at +1050. That both teams score is +115 with no at -165. That Argentina wins and both teams score is +225, and that Canada wins and both score is +1500. That both score and it’s a draw is +600. Argentina to win and Canada not to score is -110 and vice versa is +1500.

These countries haven’t met since a 5-0 Argentina victory in 2010.

Argentina

Reigning World Cup and Copa America champion Argentina is No. 1 in the FIFA world rankings and this might be the last major international tournament for all-time great Lionel Messi, who of course now plays in Major League Soccer with Inter Miami and says he will end his career with that club. Although Messi hasn’t ruled out the 2026 World Cup in the USA, Canada and Mexico, he’ll be 37 next week and has had some trouble staying healthy of late. Messi is the +300 favourite to lead the tournament in goals and -150 to be Argentina’s top scorer.

This team is similar to the one that won 2022 World Cup, with 21 of the 26 players featuring in Qatar. The Argentines are 4-0 in 2024 and beat Guatemala 4-1 in their final warm-up last Friday. Messi had two goals and Lautaro Martinez two. Martinez was this season’s Serie A top scorer with Inter Milan. For an anytime goal Thursday, Messi is -130 and Martinez +115.

Canada

Team Canada, ranked 49^th in the world under new coach Jesse Marsch, largely has the same roster as the one from the last World Cup led by Alphonso Davies (who plays club soccer for Bayern Munich), Jonathan David (Lille) and Tajon Buchanan (Inter Milan) – current Champions League winner Real Madrid reportedly is targeting Davies in a transfer deal this summer from Munich. Canada is 1-1-1 this year with that victory being the 2-0 win over Trinidad and Tobago to get into this tournament along with a 4-0 loss to the Netherlands on June 6 (Marsch’s first game in charge) and a 0-0 draw with France on June 9.

Canada goalkeeper Maxime Crepeau was tremendous against the French. One of the youngest players in this tournament is 18-year-old defender Luc de Fougerolles, and Englishman by birth who debuted for the national team in March. On the first goalscorer prop for Canada, no goalscorer is the -130 favourite followed by David at +475. He had 19 goals in the French Ligue 1 for Lille this past season.