Things are getting better and more interesting if you look back them in retrospect.

In Goldman Sachs lengthy, deep, profound, drill-through and very pretty but unless World Cup 2018 report, the Investment powerhouse claimed, based on its forecast on data mining, machine learning, it used 200,000 statistical models, sifted data on individual players and recent team performance and ran 1 million simulations of the tournament.

As a result, it predicts that Brazil will lift the trophy on July 15.

There are so much for the unpredictable nature of a beautiful game.