In the championship match of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, Germany scored a goal to beat Argentina 1:0 in the extended match, which was not only the fourth title in the team's history, but also the first title since the merger of East and West Germany (three months after West Germany was crowned the king of the 1990 World Cup, the two Germanys were reunited), and also became the first European national team to be crowned the king of the American continent in history.
, congratulations to Germany, Chancellor Merkel is indeed the goddess of victory.
However, in this one we're talking about the landlord nation of Brazil, this year's biggest bitter rivals, even worse than the defending champions, Spain, who were eliminated from the tournament in the group stage.
In this third-place match, even though captain Silva, who had been suspended for two yellow cards in the previous match, came back to strengthen the defense, the Netherlands earned a 12-yard penalty just over two minutes into the first half and conceded a goal in the 16th minute, and chased the game all the way to the finish line without getting anywhere. The Netherlands went into the second half with a 2:0 lead, and then scored another goal in injury time, like salt in the wound, leaving the shame of the 0:3 defeat to the hosts, Brazil, and the national team, which had declared before the match that it would play with dignity, to be the best team in the world.
Still haven't found their winning ways. If it wasn't for midfielder Oscar's late goal against Germany, Brazil would have been in the running for a place in the
The two matches after the quarterfinals will be a collapse of "10 goals conceded, 0 goals scored".
After 64 years of hosting the World Cup at home again, Brazil has not yet been able to overcome the regret of losing the World Cup to Uruguay 1:2 in the most crucial match of the final round of the quarter-finals (the system of the tournament back then was that the last four would play a round-robin tournament, and the one with the best record would be crowned the champion) in the 1950 World Cup Finals, which was also known as the "Maracana Blow", and Brazilians have been looking forward to a chance to vindicate themselves and win the World Cup at home. The Brazilians have been looking forward to a chance to vindicate themselves and win the World Cup at home, after all, they have the world's most five titles in hand, but have never been crowned the king at home. However, this shame has been replaced by the 7-1 massacre by Germany at the MineirãoStadium in this year's Final Four, and a new term has emerged - Mineirazo - the Mineiro tragedy.
It's easy to attribute the defeat against Germany to the absence of star striker Neymar due to injury and the suspension of captain Silva, the centerpiece of the defense, who had accumulated a second yellow card in the previous game, but coach Scolari's inability to come up with a decent strategy to deal with the situation (including the selection of Neymar and Silva's replacements) was also a major cause. What was even worse was the fact that the Brazilian defense collapsed too quickly, and at one point, they were scored four times within seven minutes in the first half, completely dumbfounding them. The first half saw four consecutive goals in seven minutes, which completely fooled Brazil and made people realize how important Silva is to Brazil. To the third place match against the Netherlands, Silva comeback does make Brazil's defense improved, but still less than the level of the final eight match against Colombia, and the previous game against Germany after the tragic loss, the morale is still difficult to pull up, do not see the Brazilian in the third place match to fight to the death to defend the dignity of the feeling.
The Netherlands faced Argentina's solid backline in the quarterfinals, and were unable to break through for 120 minutes. Striker Robben (30), who has been the main protagonist of the attack in this year's tournament, didn't have a few effective attacking chances against Argentina, but frequently created threatening attacks against Brazil, including a 12-yard penalty for the Netherlands more than two minutes into the match (although he was fouled by Silva outside the penalty box after watching the replay...), allowing captain Van Persie to score smoothly and putting Brazil on the back foot. (Although he was fouled by Silva outside the box on the replay, he fell down inside the box...), allowing captain Van Persie to score the penalty, which instantly put Brazil on the back foot. Throughout the game, Brazil's defense didn't open up big holes for the opponents to shoot as easily as they did against Germany, but they still had a lot of danger around the penalty area, and conceded three goals in the end. However, Brazil's offense was even worse than their defense. Scolari replaced Fred, who had started the previous matches but had nothing to show for it, and Hulk, who had not been weak against Chile, with...Jo, a striker who is even worse than Fred in this tournament, and who performed all kinds of In the match against Chile, he showed various ways of wasting teammates' passes, which can be watched as a funny movie, but he was the single striker in Brazil's "4-2-3-1" formation in the third place match. Without Neymar, the top attacker, and a midfielder with no strong organization ability, Brazil's attack was even more tragic than the tragedy, with a bunch of long passes that were simply broken up, no teamwork, Jo still had no breakthrough ability, and midfielder Oscar tried to sprint forward on his own, but didn't have any good chances, so I'm afraid that Brazil's weakest attacking ability in the country's history continues to be displayed in front of their own countrymen. The weakest attacking ability in Brazil's history continues to be displayed in front of our own countrymen, two games in a row.
The Brazilian fans on the sidelines, perhaps because of the previous massacre, were already "not expecting, not hurting" for the third place match. Although many of them were still staring at the 3:0 slaughter of Brazil, many of them still smiled after the match, after all, they had seen 7:1, what face hadn't they lost? However, in the third place match, Brazil, with Silva in the back of the defense, still proved to be the weakest team in the quarterfinals, and there is a big gap between them and the top three (even with Neymar, I'm afraid it's still only a little bit), not to mention that a lot of reports criticized that Brazil shouldn't have made it to the quarterfinals, and that Brazil was already out of the quarterfinals of the last 16 match against Chile without the help of the goalposts twice.
