He's one of the worst posters on the sight, guy has an unhealthy hard on for the Lakers too. Likes to bandwagon top teams and then rage when they lose.
Back to the game. Seems like the Germans resented all the boasting by Brazil leading up to the game. Heres a post match quote by Joachim Low.
Germans definitely took it personally. Brazil has been walking around the last few year pounding the chests about 5 time world champions. And who did they get that 5th title against? yeah Germans wanted this bad.
I agree with a lot of the analysis below.
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Late to this thread again. Some great comments from the always colorful John Helm during the match.
Silva's stock just went through the roof, as I suspect any players playing domestically may be looking for European transfers. Ceasar's dream of back in Europe may have to go on hold...back to TFC?
Haven't really seen a prominent game producing a shellacking like that since England laid Germany out 5-1 in a WC qualifier 14 years ago.
But as Forrest said at halftime, those games get out of control fast (Canada/Honduras being a painful recent example). Today it was over probably at 2-0, but then confusion and cautiousness of defenders giving an extra few yards to not concede another turns into more time and space...add in a blown midfield coverage by guys trying to get back the 2 spot they're down and its pulling it out of the net again. Add to this, all their confidence is shot while the German's are playing one touch with each other as if it was the training pitch.
And at halftime, no player wants to come on, and the guys on the field have no desire...it thus easily could've been 9 or 10, though German didn't keep the boot in.
Tough way to go out.
Hoping for the Dutch tomorrow to win fair and square...expect Robben, Sniejder and Kyut to have another great game moving the ball forward.
Then get to see the bloodbath in the stands and on the field for the 3/4 game when its Brazil B vs Argentina B.
So many of these German players play together in Bayen Munchen, shows you how much having at least a group of guys who are very familiar playing together in world tournaments means so much.
My kid is looking at the game right now, since she couldn't stay up for it last night.
It's really kind of amazing that Brazil looks genuinely good for the first 10 minutes. Then Müller scores, and first signs of Brazil unraveling start to show, as they start to lob targetless long balls and seem to be at a slight loss as to how to attack. Germany starts to look comfortable.
But still, it doesn't look bad, just more even than the first 10 minutes. The defense holds it's own quite alright, they win plenty of balls in the midfield and seem to still have a slight edge in controlling the ball.
This lasts to about 20 minutes. Only after Klose makes it 2-0 the game really collapses.
Seems to be kind of reaching. A couple isolated incidents in a big country, some of which may not have even been directly related to the game. Seems like just a sad bunch of people on the whole.
I think the decisiveness of the ass kicking really did prevent a larger riot. A tight, 2-1 loss probably elicits a much stronger reaction, but 7-1 is something else. It's not a Canucks situation either because Brazil still has 5 World Cups to fall back on, whereas Canuck fans have nothing.
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This group of Brazillian players are psychologically weak. They turned their backs and not watching the Brazil-Chile PK. They hold up Neymar's jersey during the semi's national anthem. They simply didn't have confidence in themselves.
Still it shouldn'd have been 7-1 but they crumpled at the first sign of adversity.
Most North American papers blew it on the headline today. "Das Boot." Lame. Should have gone with Kroos Control and a picture of Kroos celebrating on of his goals. #hireme
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By way of analogy, if a soccer team averages 1.5 goals per game, and a hockey team averages 3.0, 7 goals is like 14.
If you were gonna put it in hockey terms, I'd say that's about right.
This would be like Canada losing the Olympic semi finals at home to Russia about 14-2.
That's how bad it is, except it's Brazil and the World Cup so it's even worse.
That's how bad it is, except it's Brazil and the World Cup so it's even worse.
I think they're pretty close to even. Thankfully we didn't have to find out, but I cannot imagine what the reaction here would be to that kind of loss. 5 hockey summits?
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"They're called Brazilians because the Germans tore several strips off them, exposing all their cracks at the back."
More great stuff from the Guardian World Cup Daily podcast. Definitely worth a listen (they also have twice weekly podcasts during the regular season).
"They're called Brazilians because the Germans tore several strips off them, exposing all their cracks at the back."
More great stuff from the Guardian World Cup Daily podcast. Definitely worth a listen (they also have twice weekly podcasts during the regular season).
