France team
Antoine Griezmann likes to sip yerba mate from a gourd and hang out grilling meat with his Uruguayan chums, but his loyalties were not open to question as he claimed a goal and an assist to ease France closer to their World Cup dream.
Griezmann's quandary had dominated pre-match narratives since he admits to such deep affection for Uruguay and its culture, reinforced by his close friendship with Atletico Madrid team-mates Diego Godin and Jose Gimenez.
Godin is godfather to his daughter and he embraced his opponents with such emotion in the tunnel before kick-off that French eyebrows might have been raised had he not provided such an emphatic contribution to the win.