7 - 1: Germany routs shocked Brazil
Brazil fans might not want to watch the video highlights today as they have nothing to cheer about. Their team suffered their worst defeat in 100 years of competitive football at the hands of Germany.
Brazil fans might not want to watch the video highlights today as they have nothing to cheer about. Their team suffered their worst defeat in 100 years of competitive football at the hands of Germany.
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A compilation of pictures taken in Brazil on July 8, 2014 shows distraught Brazilian supporters reacting during the semi-final match between Brazil and Germany. AFP PHOTO
Germany run riot in record 7-1 defeat of Brazil
BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil, AFP – Germany crushed shambolic World Cup hosts Brazil with a record 7-1 defeat on Tuesday to book their place in the tournament final in a match that shook football's superpower to the core. (video highlights: http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/videos/highlights/match=300186474/index.html)
Brazil were booed by their fans and gathered shell-shocked on the Mineirao pitch with coach Luiz Felipe Scolari after the worst defeat in their 100 years of competitive football.
Germany's coach Joachim Loew (L) commiserates with Brazil's coach Luiz Felipe Scolari after Brazil's stunning defeat. AFP PHOTO / ODD ANDERSEN
The team who have won five World Cups have never put on such a chaotic defensive performance as during an 18 minute first half period when Germany scored four goals, three of them in just 179 seconds.
Brazilian fans were left in tears – many just left the stadium unable to put up with the pain.
Germany's forward Thomas Mueller (L) looks on as Germany's midfielder Mesut Ozil (C/8#) takes a free-kick over a wall of Brazilian players (3L/R): Brazil's forward Hulk, Brazil's midfielder Luiz Gustavo, Brazil's forward Fred, Brazil's defender Dante and Brazil's defender Marcelo during the semi-final football match between Brazil and Germany at The Mineirao Stadium in Belo Horizonte on July 8, 2014, during the 2014 FIFA World Cup . AFP PHOTO / CHRISTOPHE SIMON
Thomas Mueller scored in the 11th minute, Klose after 23 to take his World Cup total to a record 16, Toni Kroos in the 24th and 26th minutes, Sami Khedira after 29 and substitute Andre Schuerrle in the 69th and 79th minutes. Oscar scored Brazil's goal in the 90th minute.
"We ask for forgiveness," said a shell-shocked Scolari.
The Brazil boss added: "I'm responsible for what the team does out on the pitch – and I am to blame for this result."
Brazil's midfielder Luiz Gustavo (C) is consoled by teammate Brazil's defender Maicon after the match. AFP PHOTO / CHRISTOPHE SIMON
"They were better than us. They prepared better. They played better," conceded Brazil captain David Luiz.
He added: "It's a very sad day but it's also a day from which to learn."
Mueller was almost lost for words.
"I can't believe it. It's something totally crazy. It just went well today," he beamed.
"Now we have to pull through one more time, we have to fight to get this thing," he added, referring to Sunday's final.
Germany will face either Argentina or the Netherlands at Rio de Janeiro's Maracana Stadium after their stunning show of power.
Brazil's defender and captain David Luiz (R) holds the shirt of Brazil's forward Neymar with Brazil's goalkeeper Julio Cesar before the semi-final football match. AFP PHOTO / GABRIEL BOUYS
With superstar Neymar out with a fractured vertebra and captain Thiago Silva suspended, Brazil fell into disarray on an emotionally-charged night as the Germans exploited gaping holes.
Mueller began the rout with only 11 minutes gone, before Klose made history of his own with his 16th World Cup goal to become the tournament's all-time sole top scorer.
Germany's forward Miroslav Klose celebrates scoring his team's second goal during the semi-final football match, his 16th in World Cup competitions, making him the tournament's all-time top scorer. AFP PHOTO / PATRIK STOLLARZ
With the Selecao defence shaken and their fans leaving in droves after just 25 minutes, Kroos scored twice in as many minutes before Khedira added the Germans' fifth.
Substitute Schuerrle then added Germany's sixth and seventh before Oscar grabbed Brazil's late consolation goal.
Germany's Andre Schuerrle, second left, scores his side's 6th goal. (AP Photo/Francois Xavier Marit, Pool)
For the hosts, the final humiliation came when their loving fans started cheering the opposition German team as they scored their seventh goal.
Brazil had already left many of their supporters in tears, and as an abysmal performance worsened, the Selecao stars saw hundreds start streaming out of the Mineirao stadium.
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