Holy Haahmes, Batman! Once the world starts pronouncing your name in the dramatic Spanish way, you can usually say you’ve made it. James Rodriguez is the breakout star of this World Cup, bar none.

Ooh, the knockouts! No more margins for error, no more settling for second best. It’s win or go home from here on, be it through the magic up front or the dreaded penalty shoot out, someone’s gotta come out on top.

Miroslav Klose, tied for the most World Cup goals all time now with 15. Quality. Not a guy who ever lit up the club stage in quite the same way, but always a man for the occasion. Klose has scored in 4 consecutive World Cups now. Only Pele, Uwe Seeler and Klose have ever done that

Ahh, England. It’s pretty much all over now after a second consecutive 2-1 loss, this time to Luis Suarez’s Uruguay. The South Americans looked a completely different side with their talisman back, even if he wasn’t fully fit, and twice the Liverpool forward capitalised on really weak defending. 

Sometimes a keeper has a game so amazing that he seems unbeatable. Mexico’s Memo Ochoa had a game like that against Brazil, keeping Neymar and co. at bay for the full 90 minutes to squeeze a valuable point out of the hosts and transform himself into a national hero.

How good has the World Cup been!? Usually the big show brings us a bunch of conservative teams playing not to lose and trying most of all not to concede. Nil-all draws and boring football. But in Brazil, the country best known for flair and creative footy, we’re seeing the opposite. Four days and 11 games in, we are yet to see a single draw.