Group K

Live standings, every fixture and our model verdict on each match.

Ronaldo at 41, at a sixth World Cup, surrounded by the best squad of his international career. Portugal finally won something last year — the 2025 Nations League — and drew the kindest group of any top seed. The awkward question nobody in the camp will say out loud: is the captain still the right centre-forward? Whether Martínez has the nerve to answer it may decide their tournament.

Colombia are a proper side: settled, technical, at home in these conditions, and carrying a late-career James Rodríguez revival. Uzbekistan are debutants and DR Congo are back for the first time since they qualified as Zaire in 1974. The top two has a class gap. The order might not.

Verdict: Portugal and Colombia, comfortably.