While I'm sure everyone will love Ronaldo VERSUS Messi in the QF, both of them face some insanely tough Round of 16 matchups first. Uruguay played a real complete game against Russia and France is France, so talented but maybe not as good as sum of its parts? Those games could really go either way.

I really don't want to root for Russia but would love to see them knock out Spain. They are in Moscow so maybe some home cooking....

Croatia could be sitting pretty right now.

Take care all.