The odds told everyone that Germany and Brazil were neck-and-neck coming into the World Cup semi final in Belo Horizonte.
The hosts may have been without their injured star player Neymar and captain Thiago Silva, but that wasn’t deterring those in the know from saying this was going to be a tight contest.
It wasn’t.
A 7-1 scoreline will tell you that.
Watch the video above, and it will show you that.
It was an onslaught from Germany, who piled on four goals, lickety split, in the first half, to leave most of Brazil and their fans asking “what the hell just happened?”
What the hell indeed.
A harsh critic might say they brought this upon themselves, but looking at the images below, you can tell that this loss hit home in a big way for Brazilians, those on the pitch and off it.
It speaks to a nation in mourning. Check out the images below.
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eric1
Guest
Easy to blame the keeper.Brazil progressed to the quarter finals thanks to his performance against Chile,also how many of those goals were the fault of the defenders?
dasilva
Roar Guru
The thing is, it's not like Brazil don't have a keeper playing regularly in a top league to pick as well http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_Alves seems bizarre that Julio Cesar was picked in the first place
Johnno
Guest
Heck Mark Shcwarcher who can't even get a game for the aussies is better than Julio Ceaser there starting goalkeeper. Ceaser is only MLS standard plays for Toronto FC for f**ks sake,41 yr old Schwarcher has just signed on for another year at Chelsea in the EPL, lol too funny. Matt Ryan plays for a better club too,club Bruge in Belgium.
bobbym
Guest
Brazil have not been the Brazil of the beautiful game since Dunga- they almost play route one- they had to found out sooner or later in the past brilliant individuals have got them acroos the line in spite on themselves. Take Neymar and maybe Oscar out this team and it's very very Ordinary - perhaps their worst team ever.