INFOGRAPHIC: What can we expect from this World Cup?

Predictions from the team at Sportingindex.com

Forget psychic pandas or cliche-spouting ex-pros – for a more considered opinion on how the World Cup is going to play out, read on.

World leaders in sports spread betting, Sporting Index, have created an infographic outlining their predictions for Brazil 2014, which are rather more specific than some of the musings.

Want to see who they think will make the final? How many penalties will be missed? When the first hat-trick will be scored? The infographic has it.

And it has a detailed breakdown of the good – total goals scored; the bad – the first game that will include an own goal; and the downright ugly – the fastest sending off.