Croatia are one of the most impressive teams in this competition so far. They were not considered favourites before the tournament began, but they look like they can go all the way. The Croatians started their competition with a 2-0 win over Nigeria. They followed that victory up with another against Argentina which was supposed to be their most difficult, ...

Spain is one of the many heavyweights who have not really impressed in this competition and it will be interesting to see how they perform against this Russian team that has been impressive so far. Spain started their campaign with a thrilling 3-3 draw against Portugal with Diego Costa twice pulling them back from being a goal down before they ...

Uruguay were favourites to top group A and despite the Russians looking unplayable in their first two games, they were rightly not a match for the South Americans who beat them 3-0 in their final group game to top the group. With stars like Jose Jimenez and Diego Godin in defence as well as Edison Cavani and Luis Suarez in ...

France and Argentina are two teams who haven’t really set the World Cup alight this year and they both face each other with the Argentines looking to keep riding their luck. France started with a rather fortunate 2-1 win over an Australian team that we didn’t think had the capability to stop the attacking talents of Les Bleus. France beat ...

This game offers little to play for as both of these teams have already been relegated after the first two games. Panama are debutants at this stage and not much was expected from them when they were drawn in this group. They started their campaign on a bright note when they held Belgium to a draw in the first half ...