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So far, we've got :

Brazil vs Chile
Netherlands vs Mexico
Colombia vs Uruguay
Costa Rica vs Greece

Potentially Brazil vs Colombia and Netherlands vs Costa Rica in the quarters? Or how have I got it wrong?

France vs Nigeria and Argentina vs Switzerland then?

shankycricket wrote:France vs Nigeria and Argentina vs Switzerland then?

Yes.

So Australia are out then!

So, five out of the six South American teams advanced (Ecuador let down the team).

Only six out of 13 European teams advance, the same number that advanced in South Africa, down from the 10 that advanced in 2006 to the knockout stage. Having said that, in 2010 three of that six made it to the semis. Let's see if that happens again....

Two of the five African teams advanced, while an impressive three of the four CONCACAF teams are in the last 16. The biggest disappointment was Asia, with none of the four moving on from the group stages. Given that Mexico had to win a playoff with NZ to make it to the World Cup, I think that CONCACAF now needs to be awarded a fourth automatic berth, and that the fourth Asian team should play off with Oceania for the final place.

So we could add Germany vs Algeria and Belgium vs USA to the list. Can a mod/admin update the original post to enlist all the Round of 16 matches together alongwith the dates and timings, etc.

Assuming everything goes to plan, we are looking at potential quarterfinals

Brazil vs Colombia
Netherlands vs Costa Rica
France vs Germany
Argentina vs Belgium

Round of 16
28 June 2014
13:00
Brazil Match 49 Chile
Estádio Mineirão, Belo Horizonte
Referee: Howard Webb (England)

28 June 2014
17:00
Colombia Match 50 Uruguay
Estádio do Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro
Referee: Björn Kuipers (Netherlands)

29 June 2014
13:00
Netherlands Match 51 Mexico
Estádio Castelão, Fortaleza

29 June 2014
17:00
Costa Rica Match 52 Greece
Arena Pernambuco, Recife

30 June 2014
13:00
France Match 53 Nigeria
Estádio Nacional Mané Garrincha, Brasília

30 June 2014
17:00
Germany Match 54 Algeria
Estádio Beira-Rio, Porto Alegre

1 July 2014
13:00
Argentina Match 55 Switzerland
Arena de São Paulo, São Paulo

1 July 2014
17:00
Belgium Match 56 United States

Some potentially great ties.

My QF predictions are:

Brazil vs Colombia

Netherlands vs Costa Rica

France vs Germany

Argentina vs USA

shankycricket wrote:Assuming everything goes to plan, we are looking at potential quarterfinals

Brazil vs Colombia
Netherlands vs Costa Rica
France vs Germany
Argentina vs Belgium

Would be a great QF line up but the way things have gone so far this WC it's difficult to call.

what does concacaf stand for?

I've always wondered

never been able to work it out

Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football

No Football today

SaintPowelly wrote:Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football

Caribbean Assoc

I've been trying to fit Central African in there somehow, despite African football having their own gig

cheers powelly

I pick Chile to squeeze past Brazil 2-1, and break the hearts of a nation....

Even though Colombia are playing good football, I suspect Uruguay might edge it.