Sixteen of the 48 groups are heading dwelling, however which of the edges left standing will survive all the way in which to the World Cup remaining 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 towards DR Congo and holders Argentina towards shock bundle Cape Verde.
It was a distinct crew who precipitated the largest shock within the remaining set of group video games, nonetheless.
Whereas BBC Sport’s soccer professional Chris Sutton and AI nonetheless went for Cape Verde to lose towards Saudi Arabia – from greater than 50,000 customers enjoying the BBC’s new predictor sport – 39% of you appropriately 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 sport, solely 597 of you appropriately backed them to beat Germany.
Chris and AI had been additionally mistaken about that one however, general, 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 paved the way 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 right order in three of the teams.
AI’s predictions have been generated utilizing Microsoft Copilot Chat. We merely requested the instrument to ‘predict the outcomes of the World Cup last-32 ties’.
The brand new BBC predictor game permits readers to select a winner from every knockout tie.
