As someone joked, if anybody predicted this score line correctly, I would believe if the person also predicts when they’ll #bringbackourgirls.
Well, well, well. Records are meant to be broken. A FIFA World Cup semi final to be forever remembered in history by football fans except Brazil who would wish to forget albeit only if they could.
Even the most optimistic German enthusiast never saw this coming neither did the most pessimistic and dispassionate of Brazilian fans. A match for the record books. A match that would forever put German legend, Miroslav Klose in the record books for most goals (16) scored at the FIFA World Cup.
The first goal showed signs of things to come. The marking for the corner kick was lackadaisical at best, leaving an unmarked Thomas Muller to tuck the ball in with consummate ease. After going down, Brazil tried to rally the troops but the over eager David Luiz, the listless or inexistent midfield and the languid attackers set the tone for the most dramatic and embarrassing implosion ever witnessed on the World Cup stage.
Any attempt at analyzing individual performances is a mission in futility. As David Pazstor summed up in the ever reliable Chelsea blog, “weaintgotnohistory”,
For Brazil, it is one to forget and forget quickly. To a man, they were poor, undisciplined, shapeless, appalling and later frustrated and uncaring. Let’s be generous and say that perhaps, they tried too hard, they wanted it too much, figured it was their destiny, got carried away in the moment and the passion and the occasion and never recovered.
For Brazil, the dream is over and the party lights have been well and truly turned out. For Germany, they now turn their attention to the Maracana as they await the winner between Argentina and The Netherlands. The only question is if they can keep their heads after this extraordinary result and repeat this level of performance one last time.
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