Four years ago Uruguay and Portugal met in the Round of 16 with Edinson Cavani’s brace sending Uruguay through before losing to eventual champions France in the quarters.
Portugal on paper are the favorites but haven’t proven consistently enough that they can get out of the knockout stages for me to consider them a legit contender to go all the way. Despite being likely to get out of the group, South Korea and Ghana are also teams that are no strangers to the next round and have recent runs into the quarterfinals and beyond.
So it is up to the old guard of mercurial legends of Suarez and Ronaldo to keep their powerhouse countries on move into the knockout rounds lest Son Heung-Min and the Ayew’s get other ideas.