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So I guess there is a silver lining to your embarrassing performance and early exit. At least you were spared humiliation by die Mannschaft.
Brazil were without their leading goalscorer Neymar, so were not as potent offensively and were nowhere near as dangerous in front of goal as in previous matches, especially when you consider that Germany's goalkeeper, Manuel Neuer, is probably the best goalkeeper in the world.
They were without probably their best defender and also their captain - their on-field leader - Thiago Silva, so they were not only impotent up front but also exposed in the centre of defence and, without their captain on the field, there was nobody to properly rally the troops on the field when they went behind.
Add the fact that whereas Germany's Manuel Neuer is probably the best goalkeeper in the world, Brazil's goalkeeper Julio Cesar is a crap goalkeeper who was only Queens Park Rangers' THIRD CHOICE goalkeeper even when they played in the Championship, the second tier of English football. QPR have just sold him to mighty Toronto in MLS. I think the Brazilians were so complacent - so confident they would score enough goals in each match to win - that they thought they didn't need a good keeper.
And then there was Scolari, who guided Brazil to World Cup glory in 2002 but decided last night to field a team with no formation whatsoever and dubious tactics.
So with an impotent attack shorn of Neymar coming up against the world's best goalkeeper, with the team missing their captain and best defender, having a **** goalkeeper and no formation, I think the mystery as to why Brazil lost 7-1 has been solved.
On Nicky Campbell's live phone-in show on BBC Radio Five Live this morning listeners were calling in saying how much they enjoyed seeing Brazil's demolition. One caller after another were calling Brazil - and their fans (have you noticed how the music is stopped two-thirds of the way through the Brazilian anthem before each Brazil match and the Brazil fans carry on singing the rest of it without music like some sort of war chant?) - arrogant and complacent, thinking they only had to turn up at their own World Cup to win it. At least two callers berated the BBC pundits, who throughout this World Cup have been looking at the Brazilians as the best thing since sliced bread, as though they were going to win the tournament without breaking sweat. BBC pundits such as former Liverpool and Scotland defender and former Match of the Day pundit Alan Hansen who, at half-time, said he was "devastated" by the result! One guy called in saying that, as an England fan, he doesn't normally cheer for Germany, but he was cheering them on last night to see them give the arrogant Brazilians a good stuffing.
These pundits are reminiscent of the referees at this World Cup who, as usual, give Brazil an easy time and let them get away with murder. Brazil defender David Luiz has been doing in this World Cup what he does when he plays for Chelsea - elbowing in the face any opponent that dares try and get the ball of him. Yet referee after referee has been allowing him to get away with it, not even booking him. Had an England player elbowed someone in the face he'd be given a straight red, yet Luiz and the other Brazilian players get away with all sorts. It comes as no surprise to me, therefore, that the boffins at FIFA decided to pick Marco Rodriguez as referee for last night's game, the same referee who failed to act on Luis Suarez's decision to bite Giorgia Chiellini (extraordinarily, the referee is nicknamed "Dracula" because of the way he looks). Brazil got away with absolute murder in their undeserved 3-1 win against the brave Croatians in the opening game of the tournament.
Put it this way - Had Brazil been merely 1-0 down in the last ten or twenty minutes of the match they would have started going down like flies in the German penalty area and perform extraordinarily extravagant dives all over the pitch, to try and cheat their way to victory, as they and other South American and Southern European teams are prone to doing.
By the way, there must be something in the water at Belo Horizonte. Since 1950 it has been famous as being where the minnows USA shocked the world of football by beating England, who were playing in their first-ever World Cup, 1-0. Now, for decades more, it will also be famous for being the place where Germany shocked the world of football by beating hosts Brazil 7-1.
World Cup
Semi-Final
Brazil 1-7 Germany
Oscar 90......................................Müller 11′ Klose 23′ Kroos 24′, 26′ Khedira 29′ Schürrle 69′, 79′
Heartbreak: Brazil fans at Copacabana beach
Glum: More Brazilians at the iconic beach
Shock: Fans during the first half of the thumping, in which Germany scored five goals in 18 minutes
Contrast: Joyous Germany fans inside the FIFA Fan Fest area on Copacabana
Agony: Brazil fans devastated
And a bit more agony: A frustrated fan grabs his head in pain
Joy: More German fans celebrating on the Rio beach
Delight: More German fans celebrations
Dismay: Brazilian children distraught in the same FIFA Fan Fest
Party time: A few more German fans
Pathetic fallacy: The rainy weather in Rio very much reflecting the mood of the people
Pleased: German fans celebrating goal in the first half of the game
Helpless: A Brazilian fan can't hold back the tears inside the stadium in Belo Horizonte
Bleak: A sad-faced Brazilian in the stadium after full-time
England would not have got beaten 7-1.
Tim Howard's mother is Hungarian.
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You're right... the limeys would not have scored. It would probably be an 8-0 German victory over the Brits.
It would have been 6-0 at half time then the Brits would beg the US and Canada to save them yet again.
It would have been 2-0 or 3-0 to Germany. This England team would not capitulate like the Brazilians did.
Spain may be in an economic depression but football, the world's richest sport, most certainly isn't.
Barcelona are the world's third-richest football club, after Real Madrid and Manchester United, and are valued at $2.6 billion, so £75 million quid for Suarez is just money down the back of the sofa.
Manchester United pay Wayne Rooney £300,000 a WEEK.
Owner of Liverpool watching his favorite team... the Boston Red Sox.
Boston owns Liverpool.
Fenway Sports Group owns Liverpool FC AND Boston Red Sox and other teams.
Boston Red Sox do not own Liverpool FC.
Fenway Park... Home of the Boston Red Sox...
Owners of Liverpool
Do you think that the American owner of Liverpool club might consider changing the name of the stadium where the Liverpool FC plays to Fenway UK?
Has a nice ring to it
The real reason the Russians weren't no good.
Russian priest calls colorful World Cup cleats a ‘homosexual abomination’ - The Washington Post
Russian priest calls colorful World Cup cleats a ‘homosexual abomination’ - The Washington Post
Fenway Park... Home of the Boston Red Sox...
Owners of Liverpool
Fenway Sports Group owns Liverpool FC AND Boston Red Sox and other teams.
Boston Red Sox do not own Liverpool FC.
That's three times I've told you that now. Liverpool FC and Boston Red Sox are both owned by Fenway Sports Group.
He didn't say the Red Sox own Liverpool. He said Boston owns Liverpool. Boston is a city. Try remembering your history. It's the one General Washington kicked your a$$es out of.
Your reading comprehension sucks as bad as your alleged football side.
He most certainly did. Your reading comprehension is veritably substandard.
And he was wrong to do so. That was our land, and still is.
Yes, everyone who beats you is wrong to do so. And yet it happens so frequently. Go figure.
Kicking someone off their own land IS wrong.
Yeah. We're always losing wars, aren't we?
The last time I looked, Britain's (and England's before her) win to loss ratio in conflict is about the best there is, and much better than America's.
