Portugal and Spain will meet on Monday in Texas.
Some games deliver, some don't.
The Portugal-Croatia game delivered. Modric and Croatia can walk off with their heads held high. They played a great game, at least in the second half, and oftentimes the better team doesn't advance. That's what happened here. The better team lost. Portugal got lucky. But that doesn't matter.
We've got a game now between Spain and Portugal that has the potential to be the best game of the World Cup when it is all said and done.
The round of 16 is living up to the billing. All hosts through? Check. Heavyweight match ups? Check. Golden boot favourites still playing? Check.
This is the point when the World Cup really becomes magical and the intensity of the games reach another level.
