If ever a game had tedious boring draw written all over it from the start - it is this one.   Not exactly how it turned out - draws can be as exciting as any match.
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Brazil was in the finals, so the sentence is trivially true

Not at all - one of the implications of the sentence is that Brazil will probably be in the finals; the other is that any team good enough to beat Brazil is going to be good enough to beat anyone else.

Actually I wasn't intending that as a general statement about all World Cuops, but as a specific prediction about this World Cup.