Chile scored 10 goals in the group phase of the Copa America. No other team managed more than four. This is good news for a team that went into the championship worried about not taking enough of its chances. But it also might give something of a false impression.
Leonardo Veliz, 1974 World Cup veteran and one of the most respected voices in Chilean football, certainly thinks so.
"The Chile that qualified did not convince me," he wrote on Tuesday in his column for the newspaper, La Tercera. "Its apparent brilliance came only against an already qualified Bolivia [the final group game, which Chile won 5-0].