Brazil is the prohibitive World Cup favorite.
They have never lost a game at home.
They’re well on their way to a sixth World Cup championship.
And whether they needed it or not, they got help in game 1 from the referees.
If the game is fair, I say Chile, their neighbor in South America nicks it.
Yes, they have lost a game at home, probably games at home.
Last competitive game they lost at home was 41 years ago or something against Peru.
They also lost the 1950 World Cup final in the Maracana, Rio De Janeiro to Uruguay.
But however this goes, this is the best World Cup in a long time, 2006 wasn’t bad for drama, 2002 okay and I don’t remember 1998 that well.
1994 in the USA was a good World Cup.
I don’t even know if we have had that good of World Cup coverage in the USA but only for a few World Cups, maybe only since 2006.