Brazil vs. Portugal World Cup: Draw 0-0

What's the Portuguese for "dud"? Even though Brazil and Portugal are two of the top-three ranked teams in the world, their scoreless draw did not live up to expectations. Brazil knew that a tie would be enough for it to win Group G and the same would likely be good enough for Portugal to advance with them-unless the Ivory Coast could score nine goals against North Korea. The Ivory Coast, however, only won 3-0, meaning that the two Portuguese-speaking nations qualified for the last 16. They will await the results of this afternoon's Group H games to discover their next opponents, both hoping to avoid Spain. The Ivory Coast and North Korea were eliminated.