With eight teams left to play off, here are my two scenarios:

European Final

Belgium over Argentina
Netherlands over Costa Rica

Columbia over Brazil
Germany over France

Germany over Columbia
Netherlands over Belgium

South American Final

Argentina over Belgium
Netherlands over Costa Rica

Brazil over Columbia
Germany over France

Brazil over Germany
Argentina over Netherlands

Of course an alternate of these is possible, but I still think that the European Final is the stronger possibility, with a Germany – Argentina final the third-best option. I don’t see Brazil getting to the finals unless they can play with complete energy and develop a defense that hasn’t appeared to date. And it would be better for them to lose before the finals than in the finals, from a nation’s psyche point of view.

I don’t think I can pick a winner until we get to that point, but for my money, Germany and Netherlands are the two best teams I’ve seen so far. And if it comes to Germany/Netherlands, with van Persie and Robben, the Dutch have a good change to finally get their first World Cup.