On Thursday night in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Brazil will do battle in World Cup qualification for only the seventh time. Do the previous six meetings -- all of them this century -- have anything to tell us about the way this game might unfold?
2002 qualifiers: 3-1 Brazil win, 2-1 Argentina win
With the previous campaigns following the same fixture list, the teams met each other in Brazil for Round 6 (of 18) and in Argentina for Round 15. The first time, in 2000, Brazil, under Vanderlei Luxemburgo, were already under pressure after a faltering start, while Marcelo Bielsa's Argentina were flying.