"We all believe in a final against Germany. They will definitely reach the final."
In a sign that the authors of the report might have stopped watching the English Premier League a few weeks from its conclusion (the Reds were swept aside by Manchester City) they have opted for England where other institutions give the Three Lions no chance.
We adopt a quantitative model for predicting the 2014 football World Cup winner, and then apply some well reasoned arguments to find the likely winner.