Argentina's Messi and Portugal's Ronaldo looking dejected after losing to France and Uruguay respectively in the pre-quarterfinals of the FIFA World Cup. Spain's Sergio Ramos reacts after the penalty shoot-out. Colombian players console each others at the end of the match. Mexico's Hirving Lozano and Miguel Layun look dejected after the match. Japan's fans cry at the end of the Russia 2018 World Cup round of 16 football match Croatia's Danijel Subasic saves a penalty by Denmark's Christian Eriksen during the shootout. Switzerland's Manuel Akanji reacts after his team lost the round of 16 match against Sweden — Internet MOSCOW, July 04 (Agencies): No more ties, or tiebreakers. The World Cup is into the knockout stage, and every match will end with someone going home.
After six of the eight round-of-16 games, these quarterfinals are set: France vs. Uruguay, Russia vs. Croatia, Brazil vs. Belgium and England vs Sweden.
Here's a quick look at the other round of 16 games:
On Saturday, two of the greatest players of the era followed each other out of the tournament. Lionel Messi and Argentina lost 4-3 to France, which got two goals from teenager Kylian Mbappe. Four hours later, Cristian Ronaldo and his European champion Portugal team lost 2-1 to Uruguay.
France and Uruguay were the first teams to reach the quarterfinals, and they'll meet on July 6.
On Sunday, for the first time at a World Cup since 1986, two games were decided on penalty shootouts on the same day. The net result: Russia and Croatia will meet in a July 7 quarter-finals in Sochi.
Russia and Spain were tied 1-1 after extra time, and the Russians clinched the shootout 4-3 in Moscow. Andres Iniesta, who scored the winning goal for Spain in the 2010 World Cup, retired from international football after the match. Croatia and Denmark were tied 1-1 at the end of extra time. Goalkeeper Danijel Subasic made three saves in the shootout- equaling a World Cup record - as Croatia won 3-2 on penalties over the Danes.
On Monday, five-time champion Brazil beat Mexico 2-0 and Belgium left it to the last minute of stoppage time to clinch a 3-2 win over Japan.
It was the first time since West Germany rallied to beat England in extra time that a team has rallied from 2-0 down to win a knockout game at the World Cup. It was the first time since 1966, when Portugal beat North Korea, that a team has come back from 2-0 down to win a knockout match in normal time.
On Tuesday, Sweden reached the World Cup quarter-finals for the first time in 24 years after Emil Forsberg's deflected shot earned a scrappy 1-0 win over Switzerland on Tuesday.
Switzerland's Michael Lang was sent off in injury-time for a last-ditch push on Martin Olsson and referee Damir Skomina downgraded his penalty to a
free-kick on the edge of the area. But the game was already up.
Forsberg's second-half strike, which deflected off the unfortunate Manuel Akanji, means Sweden are through to the World Cup last eight for the first time since 1994 in the United States.
In another game, England finally overcame nearly 30 years of penalty pain when they beat Colombia 4-3 in a shootout on Tuesday after drawing their World Cup last-16 clash 1-1 following extra time after the South Americans had equalised in the 93rd minute.
Beginning with their 1990 semi-final heartache against West Germany, England had previously lost all three World Cup shootouts and three out of four in the European Championship and they looked on course for another nightmare when midfielder Jordan Henderson saw his spot-kick saved by David Ospina.
But Colombia's Mateus Uribe hit the bar and England's Jordan Pickford saved from Carlos Bacca, leaving Eric Dier to score the decisive penalty and earn a quarter-final against Sweden, while denying the Colombians a second straight run to the last eight.
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