Uruguay 2 Portugal 1, just as I predicted.

The tantalising game pitted the super defence of Uruguay – who did not concede a single goal in the group section – against Cristiano Ronaldo and his potent attacking countrymen.

Not that Uruguay did not have some heavy artillery of their own with the likes of Maximiliano Gomez, Edinson Cavani and Luis Suarez.

It all hinged on whether Uruguay could deal with Ronaldo.

They could, emphatically. And they did it by cutting off his ball supply.

Time after time, C7 stood waiting patiently waiting for the ball to arrive like an Englishman waiting for the number 10 bus or a hotel guest waiting for room service to arrive.

Not so the energetic Uruguayans, who were first to score when Edinson Cavani fed Luis Suarez and kept running, meeting the return aerial ball and bundling it into the net (1-0).

Suarez shot hard but straight at Rui Patricio, while Ronaldo failed to get a free kick over the wall as the sides traded punches.

Portugal would have wished for the free-flowing type of game they had against Spain but this was rugged and physical and the South Americans were up to it, notably captain Diego Godin, who gave a coaching manual display of how to close down spaces.

Portugal did get more into the picture after the break – whether it was the team talk or the Gummy Bear juice – and they would equalise as an unmarked Pepe literally rose to the occasion, climbing high to head home a cross (1-1).

But the goal of the game – and one of the best of the tournament, came midway through the half when the tireless Nandez fed Cavani on the left.

He cut back to the right, opened up his body and curled it into the far corner.

All class and ultimately the goal that could take the Uruguayans deep into the competition.

Portugal poured on the pressure in a desperate bid to force the game into extra time but brave and brilliant defending gave Uruguay the victory they deserved.

So we start heading towards the quarter finals without (Holland and Italy) Germany, Portugal and Argentina.

And the goals just keep on coming: you just gotta love the World Cup!