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watching the market (and its european books, not vegas) and some sharp money has gone on brazil in the last 24 hours.
This is a very hard game to cap, south american flair against german efficiency. Lets get to the elephant in the room, yes brazil will miss neymar but I would argue silva is the greater loss.Oscar Willian and Bernard are possible replacements while Dante who plays for Bayern Munich will ironically replace Silva. I can see Brazil playing this emotionally, playing for their injured "hero", lets not discount either Brazil have 2 world cup winning coaches on their bench, you can't but that sort of experience.
Like Brazil, Germany aren't the imposing team of previous world cups, there's a lot of holes in form, unconvincing wins over France and USA, the draw against Ghana, what germany do have in their favor is the best striker on the pitch in Muller and the more solid back four.
I'm not sure what to play here, I should probably play germany for my futures but I do lean Brazil here, homefield advantage in a world cup semi final cannot be underestimated, all Germany will see is yellow for 90 mins (or more).
If I do play, i'm eyeing some value bets like the correct score at 90 mins of 1-1 at 11/2 and its 5-1 to go to penalties.
All this being said, almost 2/1 on Brazil to win a home game in the world cup would have been unthinkable a month ago, books often over-react to injuries, my lean is Brazil here and Germany go out as losing semi finalists for the 3rd world cup in a row.
BOL all
