Brazil had won 11 successive games at the World Cup finals since losing 3-0 to the same opponents in the 1998 final.
France also knocked Brazil out of the 1986 World Cup on penalties following a 1-1 draw in the quarter-finals.
Brazil just couldn't defeat France.
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