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FULL TIME BRAZIL 1 GERMANY 7 Astonishing. You would have to be a heartless swine not to feel sad and sorry for Brazil. The huge pressure, the crazed expectancy, all the nation's mania and hysteria heaped on the shoulders of a passionate and useful but ultimately limited football team. They cracked under the strain, no doubt, but there was more to this than just pressure, or bad tactics and team selection, or hopeless positional play, or an excellent German side packed with sharp passers and cool finishers. It was all of those things, and yet more.
It felt before the game that defeat would be a disaster for the players and people of Brazil. But this was not just a defeat. I honestly haven't really seen anything like this, I don't think anybody has. Read on for reactions from pundits and readers. I will sign off, just hopeful that the people of Brazil can get over this defeat and remember that, horrible though this feels, the players and the coach did their best. Glib and empty though it feels to say, it is only sport, and there has to be a winner and a loser. Sometimes defeat is unlucky, sometimes it is undeserved, sometimes it is humbling and horrible and heart-breaking and humiliating. But it is only sport. Goodnight.
Alan Hansen: "I am distraught, I have been watching football for 50 years, and this is a low point. To come to Brazil and watch this."
Alan Shearer: "I genuinely worry whether some of these players will recover from this."
Henry Winter's match report: "This was an embarrassment to a famous shirt, a point their furious supporters made splenetically."
This World Cup has been full of so many shocking moments! If someone would have told me what would have happened in the Group Stages,Costa Rica's triumph, with Suarez, Neymar's injury, and now this catastrophe I wouldn't have believed it! Not for one second! What I don't understand is how Brazilian players could let this happen to them in Brazil! This surely must be the worst moment in Brazilian sport's history.
This World Cup has been full of so many shocking moments! If someone would have told me what would have happened in the Group Stages,Costa Rica's triumph, with Suarez, Neymar's injury, and now this catastrophe I wouldn't have believed it! Not for one second! What I don't understand is how Brazilian players could let this happen to them in Brazil! This surely must be the worst moment in Brazilian sport's history.
David Luiz at the end of the match
Here is Manish Joshi:
Is Brazil trying to ensure james rodriguez/columbia doesn't get the golden boot...revenge for Neymar...??!! Sad way to go about it.. It breaks the heart that your sociology analysis is turning out so true...Hope the Brazillian taxpayer will raise questions rather than go about doing the samba...Something like that happened during Commonwealth games here in India..it started a cycle of questions that booted out the Indian National Congress, a 140 years old party, from its 10 year National government..
Chukwunenye Nnebe is one of the first to take a stab at the "why?"
My take -- it all starts w/ the coach (Scolari) and then the players. From the 1st whistle of the WC opening match, Brazil has never played a cohesive and united game. Their lack of team play was evident in their close results up until the Germans exposed their weakness. No man-on-man marking, open field for the Germans after the 10th minute to play w/ the ball and get their passing game open, and the open look at the goal ended up in the final result! I've never seen a lackluster and indisciplined effort from the Brazilian players... they were truly an embarassing team to be fielded. No midfield player, no wingers, no creative ball passing, or tactical running... surely, Kaka and Robinho would have brought a difference to the midfield and the attacking forward play. Scolari stumbles AGAIN!
Nick Bishop has a dibble:
Germany have played exceptionally well and with style, yet they have such a well drilled functionality that they will exploit any weaknesses. Brazil lacked a captain, any urgency or ambition. At 0 3, they were gone and punch drunk. Such was the precision and ruthlessness of the Germans that we were provided a freak scoreline against an insipid team lacking any leaders.
Source - The Telegraph
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