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Colombia progress relatively comfortably to the quarter finals of the 2014 World Cup (for the first time in their history) by beating twice past World Cup winners and fellow South Americans Uruguay (2-0) with an impressive performance, as well as becoming the highest scoring nation at the 2014 World Cup thus far (11) and becoming the first team to stop Uruguay from scoring in a World Cup match since France did so (0-0) in 2002.

Colombia venció a Uruguay jugará en los octavos del mundial de 2014 (por primera vez en su historia). 

En este momento, no equipos han marcado más goles en el mundial que dicho equipo (Colombia).

– Uruguay limited Colombia relatively well prior to James Rodriquez’s stunning left footed volley from outside the box which was the piece of magic that was needed to unlock a deep Uruguay defence that had only conceded one goal in their previous two World Cup matches against England (2-1) & Italy (1-0) to progress to the last 16.

– Uruguay force Ospina into some good saves late on but unfortunately struggle to break down Los Cafeteros.

– Statistically speaking, not too much seperates the two South American sides as Colombia narrowly edge the possession stakes (51%-49%), Uruguay had more shots overall & both sides had the same amount of shots on target (4).

– James Rodriquez is now currently the outright top scorer at the 2014 World Cup with 5 goals.

– James Rodriquez has been involved has been involved in (scored/assisted) in 7 goals at the 2014 World Cup.

– Cuadrado gets his 4th assist at the 2014 World Cup & has been involved in (scored/assisted) in 5 of Colombia’s goals (11) at the tournament.

– Colombia pick up their second clean sheet of the 2014 World Cup as well as continuing their 100% record at the tournament – the only team thus far to win 4 matches.

– Colombia have scored 10 more goals than they did in the last World Cup tourament they appeared in 16 years ago where they only managed one goal & one win against Tunisia (1-0) in 1998.

· Half (4) of the nations (8) that have won the World Cup before have now have been eliminated from the 2014 World Cup – Spain (1), England (1), Italy (4) & Uruguay (2).

An exciting 2014 World Cup continues with exciting scenarios & narratives await.

Exactly half (3) of the South American nations (6) have been eliminated from the 2014 World Cup; a 4th will be eliminated as Colombia & Brazil face each other in the quarter finals meaning that only 2 South American nations will remain in the tournament meaning that the chances of a European nation winning the World Cup in South America for the first time or a nation winning the World Cup from outside of South America or Europe for first time or a 9th different and new winner altogether (like Spain becoming the 8th different winner in South Africa 4 years ago) increases somewhat.

· 10 (Mexico, Costa Rica, Holland, Greece, Colombia, Nigeria, USA, Algeria, Switzerland & Belgium) of the 14 countries that remain in the tournament have never won the World Cup before.

· 5 of the 14 teams that remain in the 2014 World Cup (at the time of writing) represent either Central America or Africa – continents that have never produced a World Cup winner.

· Only once since Argentina held & won the World Cup in 1978 – the last time the World Cup was held in South America – has a host nation won the World Cup (France in 1998).

· Brazil, the nation to have won the most World Cups (5), would be only the third host nation to win the World Cup since 1978 if they were to do so – Argentina (1978) & France (1998) are the only teams to have done so in that time.

– Several nations such as Colombia, Greece, Costa Rica, Belgium & Nigeria are playing the knock-out stages of the World Cup either for the first time in their history or for the first time in over 10 years.