Ironically casual american audience may be fooled into thinking this is a good match since there were so many gols.. the insane history being made aside, this is a total letdown.. when a is so thoroughly over in the 1st 29 minutes there is nothing more to watch, time to troll twitter. Streaks are the worst jinx in sports, and brazil hadnt lost a competitive match in brazil since 1975. In other words the sheer math let alone their underperforming roster suggested brazil was going to lose. However nothing predicted this kind of total annihilation

they didn't riot in 1950. they won't do it today. just a lot of tears.

and deep down they must know they deserve it.

How will they come back to play the second half (both teams I mean)?

This is so silly... The goals were so sweet, here, partner, please, have a shot...
Pretty wonderful, but it does feel like on a fiction channel...

This is not 1950 and brazil has been rioting about the world cup politics for years now leading upto opening week of the tournament. This is a volatile situation, literally millions of poor brazilians feel like the rising middle class is flying past them. Hosting the ccup was symbolic of this class and indeed racial divide. The only thing keeping the peace the love of futbol by tthe entire population. Now, with brazil put in humiliating fashion, those poor masses who have already been rioting may have nothing to restrain them. I always feared that if/when brazil was eliminated there would be violence as folks ask themselves,"what was this worth?" I sincerely pray there is no violence but the past 2 years of police brutality I fear have stoked the people. Roaming police deathsquads in the favellas have wrongfully been blamed on the world cup, and im not sure the ccommunities who have been victimized by police brutality will be able to shrug it off

on the 4th goal i had a moment of unreality where i thought i was dreaming. you know, one of those "pinch me" moments that you can't believe. i was already lightheaded from screaming for the 3rd goal and then i just floated.

im still dizzy.

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ps- shit! loew benched my captain! aghhhhh

i am praying for brazil to STEP UP THEIR FUCKING GAME

also, özil has fucking ugly frog eyes

Like I said, fantasy sports can ruin even historic matches like this one where winning isn't enough

who is ruined?

you dream!

double the fun

Its gonna take more than prayer and i say that as a man of prayer. Have you considered voodoon? After all, it is brasil

btw the new brazilian attacks are coming right through mertesacker (where hummels was)

neuer shines though.

maybe i'm just gonna call sexy jogi löw and make him tell the boys to be nice to their hosts and let them score

So your plan is to rub the crotch of your loew voodoon doll? He looks almost Shaolin dispassionate so that may not work.

Hahaha this is the funniest thing I've read....


I want to see 10-0. Please....!

I was talking so muh trash to my 7 yr old nephew. He was going for Brazil. Then I had to leave for work :/

one goal for the honor

poor things

Brilliant. Just brilliant. It's easy to say how shit Brazil were, but Germany really were just brilliant, and that's not with a kill yourself playing style. Love it.

One more thing, the reason why I loved Brazil getting mullered so hard (sorry) is because throughout the tournament they've talked as if the cup was rightfully there's, and that they'd win it without a doubt. That arrogance was rightfully shown up, and there's a case to say that it was shown up from their first game.

Gaaarrrrbage. I wanted to see a shut out.

With the Seattle Seahawks obliterating the Denver Broncos in the Superbowl, with the San Antonio Spurs annihilating the Miami Heat, and now Germany destroying Brazil in epic and historic fashion, 2014 is official the year of the Kool Keith Critical Beatdown, even if Germany goes on to lose the Final.

We can't sleep on this enough, the World Cup has come to symbolize everything that is wrong with Brazilian society, economy, and politics. The police are brutal by every definition, there are literally roaming police death squads in the Favellas, summary executions are a way of life and have been for decades now.. It would be quite literally a MIRACLE for Brazil not to fall into violence because their team playing deep into the tournament was perhaps the only true pacifying situation to quell the potential for escalating hostility. The police may spark it by overreacting in fear of the crowds and retribution for dirt the police have done. The crowds may spark it in their perfectly legitimate grievances against the police and the state. Lord have His mercy! It takes all the fun out of having enjoyed a truly historic match.

Worst lost for Brazil ever. Klose breaks Brazil's own Ronaldo's most goals scored in the World Cup all-time record. Germany as a team breaks Brazil's own national team record for most goals scored in World Cup history. Now Germany is going to their record setting 8th Final, also breaking Italy and Brazil's record. Whoa... I only hope the violence is minimal or nonexistent so we can rightfully celebrate what Germany accomplished. If Germany loses the Final, it still can't negate what just happened.

WRONG SPORT

the correct surprises are:

netherlands 5 spain 1

germany 4 portugal 0

costa rica 1 italy 0 + costa rica 3 uruguay 1 = costa rica wins group = alternate reality

and yes now germany 7 brazil 1 insanity

given that record i think in the end it deserves to be a netherlands-germany final but we'll have to wait till tomorrow to know

Yes I understand that, I was placing this Germany win in a bigger sports context for 2014.. Its not every year that all the major sports have such historic blowouts against world-class teams. Denver Broncos were favorites. Miami Heat were in their fourth consecutive Finals appearance. Serena and Venus BOTH get humiliated in the same tennis tournament.. Recently the NHL LA Kings won Game 7s ON THE ROAD IN THREE CONSECUTIVE PLAYOFF SERIES.. Brazil hadn't lost IN BRAZIL since 1975.. that is big. I will always remember 2014 as the sports year where #GodIsPissed



How pissed you say? Denver Broncos had gave up a turnover that cost them the game ON THE FIRST PLAY of the game! Dwyane Wade went into the Finals shooting 55% and finished shooting 39%! LA Kings were down 3-0 against the San Jose Sharks, then were down 3-2 against both the Anaheim Ducks AND the Chicago Blackhawks USA, Chile, and Colombia ALL missed potential game winning-or-tying goals that posted meanwhile Germany hits the post on its SEVENTH fucking goal and it goes IN??????

This is Bizarro World of Sport that is for sure ;)

comparing the biggest global sport to some national eccentricity is the opposite though!

only cricket comes second.

Still shocked by the game. Germany were superb but the story is obviously Brazil's utter collapse. In a way, Neymar and Silva are lucky they weren't involved. I don't honestly think their inclusion would've made a huge difference to the result and at least they're not contaminated by what happened. That one game has been a disaster for someone like Luiz - the most expensive defender in the history of the game, let us not forget.

But take nothing away from Germany. They were as awesome as Brazil were awful.

You're being silly now. Your bias against other American sports in praise of futbol is bordering on neurotic. You realize that yes?

(meanwhile the bandwagons of the world..)

that looks like a nice pipe!

Hahaha, considering its Jung I wonder **cough** what **cough cough** he's smoking **cough**

maybe i'm bananas but here's a theeery (trying to sound like trainspotting here)

the fact that neymar wasn't there made brazil's attack completely ineffectual. hence, in order to score, their fullbacks had to push all the way up all the time.

same thing with oscar who had to sort of supplant neymar, pushed up.

this collective pour forward got their midfield and defense in disarray--this from the start, before even trying to equalize.

and while dante is a capable defender, though not a star, it seems like silva's role was also to run his defense like buffon does with his (holler, command, etc). e.g, putting the reins on david luiz so he doesn't get lost upfront or gets possessed by the holy spirit. i don't see julio césar doing that, as he's too busy being frightened. and did you see marcelo all over the fucking place? huge lack of leadership on defense.

so this is how during that unreal half an hour i think they got *completely* disorganized. because germany was bound to win if it was to be a fair game, just not so atrociously easily. it was like they were playing saudi arabia or something. one of the commentators said that it was like they left the children (you know the ones who come in for the anthems) in their place.

felipão fucked up big. but then again he didn't really had a winning squad so i think that forced his hand. kaká is not what he used to be but maybe he would have provided alternatives to that shit offense. do they really have no better keepers than julio césar? he was so fucking slow. robinho? etc.

they had good defenders though, but a poor defense, paradoxically-- he probably should have fortified that and build up from there, instead of around neymar or neymar's void, but as the gringos say hindsight is 20/20. i don't know what was going through his head but if anything brazil got what it deserved-- because they didn't deserve to be here after how they ruined colombia.

Great effort at trying to salvage some kind of analysis to explain that implosion, shit was batshit crazy I'm not exactly sure it can really ever be explained, neither by the Brazilians or even the Germans!

My two cents:


At the end of the day, it looked like Brazil (a) just wasn't prepared for the precision passing and particularly rebounding on the German side, maybe because Germany had only scored 1 goal in each of their past few games the Brazilians scouts underestimated the German attack and (b) it really looked like Brazil regretted their exceptionally physical defense from the Colombia game and were playing soft to kind of overcompensate for the roughness of their last match. They looked like they were almost playing overly cautious defense when in reality they should have been playing for red cards after it went 3-0 in 18 minutes!

With Neymar there everyone knew their role: pretty much give it to him asap. Without him they seemed unsure what to do. But they all seemed a bit too up for it; attacking from the start as though they were already 1-0 down in the last 5 minutes. Germany found space opening up everywhere and were composed enough to capitalise. Khedira was excellent.

But we've seen Germany struggle before and all the teams left have had good and bad days. The one big advantage Germany will have whoever they face is a very easy round with no injuries. We'll have to assume tomorrow's game will be tougher on both teams, plus the winner of that one will have a day less to rest/prepare.

btw, for those who have said that tikitaka is dead… did it just reincarnate in germany?

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ps- demon-- i corrected to put buffon (not pirlo, that was a mistake)-- i blame the wine ha ha.


he took out hummels at halftime! oh man he only scored 3 fantasy points. XP

Germany opened up space like it was the fucking Matrix yo!

or something else

Actually those dudes looked WAAAAAAY better defensively than Brazil. Shit, I don't even think I saw a German have to sprint for an attack, it wasn't even tika-taka, it was too leisurely.

and it's up!!

http://www.zonalmarking.net/2014/07/...ric-thrashing/

what a match. Brazil quit on the match after the 2nd goal. Hard to believe USA managed to allow just one goal against Deutschland.

I've said it before and I'll say it again-That guy is good.

Haha. I think that's the first time I've seen words like 'obscenely', 'extraordinary' and 'preposterous' used on that site.

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