Sixteen of the 48 groups are heading house, however which of the edges left standing will survive all the way in which to the World Cup last at MetLife Stadium close to New York Metropolis on 19 July?
The hopes of one other 16 nations will chew the mud after the primary knockout spherical, which incorporates England in opposition to DR Congo and holders Argentina in opposition to shock bundle Cape Verde.
It was a special group who triggered the largest shock within the last set of group video games, nonetheless.
Whereas BBC Sport’s soccer knowledgeable Chris Sutton and AI nonetheless went for Cape Verde to lose in opposition to Saudi Arabia – from greater than 50,000 customers taking part in the BBC’s new predictor recreation – 39% of you accurately went for a draw and 43% even backed the African facet to win.
As an alternative, it was Ecuador who caught virtually everybody out this time.
From greater than 56,000 customers predictions for that recreation, solely 597 of you accurately backed them to beat Germany.
Chris and AI have been additionally flawed about that one however, total, they each bought 15/24 predictions proper from that set of matches.
Once more, the customers did higher, with 17/24, and so they nonetheless prepared the ground with 72 of this World Cup’s 104 matches now accomplished.
Chris has been proper 41 instances (57%), AI has a rating of 43 (60%), however you lot are doing even higher with 48 (67%).
Earlier than the match, Chris additionally picked the order he thought every of the 12 teams would end in. He was proper about seven of the winners, however solely bought all 4 groups within the appropriate order in three of the teams.
AI’s predictions have been generated utilizing Microsoft Copilot Chat. We merely requested the software to ‘predict the outcomes of the World Cup last-32 ties’.
The brand new BBC predictor recreation permits readers to select a winner from every knockout tie.
