Statistics: Brazil will play Germany in the FIFA World Cup final
(World News Austria)

Image: The researchers have successfully predicted several tournaments in the past, among them the correct world champion Spain in the 2010 FIFA World Cup and three out of four semi-finalists in the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. (Credit: Pixabay/stux) There are two top favourites for this year`s FIFA World Cup in Russia - Brazil with a 16.6 percent probability of winning the title, closely followed by defending world champion Germany with 15.8 percent. `The most likely final with a probability of 5.5 percent is also a match between these two teams, giving Brazil the chance to make up for the dramatic semi-final of 2014,` explains Prof. Achim Zeileis from the Department of...