WGM’s tip for 8 July: Germany

Having survived a real scare in the Round of 16 against Chile, Brazil produced one of their better performances of this World Cup to dispatch the dangerous Colombia and reach the semi-finals last weekend. But as luck would have it, they will have to finish the job without their superstar goal scorer Neymar who is out for the rest of the tournament with injury.

The Brazilians are good enough to overcome such a handicap against most teams, but can they do it against this extremely well drilled and resolute German defence? Germany shut down a previously rampant French side in their quarter-final and with no Neymar we think the home side might find them similarly difficult to break down.

See you back here at wgm8.com for tomorrow’s tip.