After an entertaining tournament so far, the knockout stage is already upon us. With 16 of the 32 participants already on the way home and just 16 others remaining, the World Cup is now appraoching the business end.
Here at 'BeSoccer', we've taken a look back over the tournament to date, using 'ProFootballDB', our very own database, to measure performance levels, stats etc to extract an ELO ranking for each player.
According to that ranking, this is the best XI of the World Cup group stage:
Cho Hyun-Woo (South Korea)
Dejan Lovren (Croatia)
Diego Godin (Uruguay)
Yerry Mina (Colombia)
Hirving Lozano (Mexico)
Luka Modric (Croatia)
Ivan Rakitic (Croatia)
Juan Quintero (Colombia)
Isco (Spain)
Romelu Lukaku (Belgium)
Harry Kane (England)