I have two favourite teams for the World Cup title from South America (Brazil, Argentina) and two from Europe (France, Germany) now. There are some teams like Belgium and Portugal too but I feel like none of them will make it to the title. The reason why I see Germany ahead of the other big teams I mentioned is that they are improving themselves again to start performing like in the old times. I see a big potential in them in this tournament and I will see if I'm wrong about them.
It seems to me that Brazil has been much more convincing and better than Argentina lately, even in the South American qualifiers.
The Argentina team is still too dependent on Messi.
Germany is a very good team but in the last a few competitions they achieved poor results due to bad strikers.
Their biggest misfortune is that Lewandowski is not German and does not play for the German national team
As for France, it seems to me that their biggest problem at the moment is bad relations in the team and the coach without authority.