UEFA: On the surface the Europeans are in great shape - half of the remaining teams are from UEFA. When you look at the big picture, though, the story is a bit less inspiring. They had 13 teams qualify for the tournament, including 10 of the Top 15-ranked teams in the world. While four out of 13 is slightly ahead of expectations from a purely mathematical basis, you nonetheless can't look at the European story here without touching on plenty of disappointment. Spain was an epic disaster despite being the top-ranked team in the world and the defending champions. Portugal was another huge disappointment. The Swiss were over-ranked at sixth coming into the tournament, but until their playoff game they were awful. Italy and England were disappointing. From a large scale, then, it's not terrible to have four teams still standing by any means, but on a smaller scale there are a lot of teams that just aren't where they should be. Even more concerning for the Europeans: there are three remaining teams that are clearly the elite remaining, and only the Germans are from Europe. Europe should own soccer, but they are just begging for scraps from South America right now. That's not how it should be, but it sadly isn't any surprise that it is that way.