I think Brazil will crush everyone if they can pull together as a team. What an amazing group of talent, even if Neymar isn't 100%.

The parity so far has been interesting. I bet there's going to be at least one favorite that doesn't make it through. I'm worried it'll be Argentina. Croatia is going to be a tough one today, and I think it's a realistic scenario that it'll be out of their control in the final group game.

We're so fortunate to live in the age of Messi but imagine the knocks against him if they don't even make it out of the group stage.

Holy sh!t

Sorry, I should've added more after my earlier post ... I was watching live and that was all I could say after Caballero's howler.

Poor Leo. ARG as a country must have at least 11 world-class players but they can't seem to come together like a team. Aguero disappears. Otomendi omg wtf. Pep must wonder if they're the same players.

Croatia looked like a club team that plays together all the time, esp on defense. Lovren continuing to play well after it looked like he was gonna be laughed out Liverpool a few months ago. Croatia could go far.

Helluva week coming up! Every day has meaningful action.

Hard to believe that Brazil, Germany, and Argentina are all vulnerable.

My sleeper pick is Nigeria. They're feeling it now and have real quality, and it's going to be awful for Messi but Argentina don't deserve anything better this year. Imagine if Ronaldo goes out too against Iran tomm, which could realistically happen -- Iran has momentum too.

But the biggest shocker IMO would be Australia. They started out looking so bad, but they could pull it off.