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I believe some matches are fixed and some things are already decided. Even Italy played bad in qualifying rounds but they are managing to play the tournament.
But let's see how they play the important matches. But I believe portugal and Germany will reach the final.
not just some matches, if you think some are fixed then I would assume most of them are, it's like they gave Italy the Euro but they had to not qualify for the world cup, anyways the final you mentioned with Portugal and German seems tough to happen, I'm expecting a Latin team to win the world cup this year since it's been 19 years when the last one won it which was Brazil, they are the favourites for me unless Argentina made a surprise.
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Messi will clearly want to win this world cup, so I'm sure Argentina will be playing their A game. But Brazil has a great team and they're just so good that it's hard not to see them in the final or at least semi finals really...
But then you also have Germany, and Spain, which are just fantastic teams. Man, it's going to be an amazing world cup. Such a shame that Italy didn't manage to qualify. But that's soccer, you never know what will happen.