Road to the final

⚠️ Warnings

• As of this date only the 1st matchday has been played, so the bracket is mostly a projection based on our match-by-match predictions.
• The 8 best third-placed teams come out of very tight tiebreakers: some spots are almost a coin toss.
• The assignment of each third-placed team to its half follows a fixed FIFA table that may differ from this calculation due to group restrictions.

⭐ Featured matchups

• Argentina vs Uruguay — the Río de la Plata derby, no less than in the Round of 32.
• Portugal vs Ecuador — the Nations League champion against Ecuador's solid defense.
• Colombia vs Croatia — Colombia, projected 2nd in Group K, would face Croatian experience.
• Spain vs Austria — the European champion against the most in-form European side of Group J.

✈️ Travel note

In this projection Colombia finishes 2nd in Group K and would play the runner-up of Group L (Croatia). It depends on the actual result against Portugal on June 27: if Colombia wins and finishes 1st, the matchup and the venue may change.