Power Ranking The 16 Remaining World Cup Contenders

11) USA

The USA were given little hope by many of emerging from the ‘Group of Death’ ahead of Portugal and Ghana, but in the end their passage was relatively comfortable.

Their group stage has been characterised by Jurgen Klinsmann’s organisation of the defence, but the goals of Clint Dempsey give them another dimension at the other end.

With Belgium a winnable tie in the last sixteen, the Americans could go deep into this tournament.