On July 8, in the Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte, the first semifinal match between the teams of Brazil and Germany took place. The entire football world has been looking forward to this confrontation in the hope that the players will show outstanding football. The final result exceeded all even the wildest expectations.
The game started at a high pace. The Brazilians took the ball from the first minutes and tried to threaten the opponent's goal. However, after the tenth minute of the meeting, events began to occur on the Mineirao stadium that fans of the Brazilian national team could not have dreamed even in the worst dreams.
At the 11th minute of the match after a corner kick, with the full connivance of the defenders of the South American national team, Thomas Muller opens the score in the match. Germany led 1 - 0. This goal shocked the entire stadium.
At the 23rd minute, Miroslav Klose sets the record for goals scored by one player in the framework of tournaments at the world championships. Klose scores his 16th goal at the world championships of the planet, thereby bypassing the Brazilian Ronaldo. Germany led 2 - 0. As it turned out later, this was only the beginning of a nightmare for Brazil.
The Germans continued to aggressively attack, and the pentacampions looked suppressed. The result was the Kroos ball already in the 24th minute. 3 - 0 - it was already a defeat by the 24th minute of the match. Few could have imagined such a development of events. Germany crushed all the Brazilian defenses.
On the 26th minute, Kroos makes a double. 4 - 0 in favor of Germany. The Germans have already begun to mock the hosts of the championship, tearing apart the entire defense of Brazil within the penalty area with their passes. But these were not all the goals of the German car in the first half.
At the 29th minute, Khedira sends the fifth goal into the goal of the host team of the World Cup. After half an hour of the game, the score was 5 - 0 in favor of Germany.
The Brazilians were never able to recover from such a shock. The first half ended in complete failure of the Scollari charges.
In the second half, the Brazilians came out as if they were a different team. From the first minutes of the second half, the South Americans rushed to attack. There were several dangerous moments at the Neuer's gate. Oscar and Paulinho were supposed to score, but the German goalkeeper saved his team.
After the onslaught of the Brazilians in the first minutes of the second half, the game calmed down somewhat. The Germans stopped letting the Brazilian players create scoring chances. The Europeans cooled the ardor of the South Americans with the sixth goal they scored. Substitute Schürrle, on the 69th minute, puts an end to the most elegant combination of the Germans. 6 - 0 ahead of Germany.
Ten minutes later (at the 79th minute) Schürrle makes a double. After a wonderful pass from the top, the German handled the ball with the first touch, and with the second powerful blow from the Brazilian penalty area he sent the ball into the near nine. The sports projectile hit the crossbar and crossed Cesar's goal line for the seventh time.
The huge failures in Brazil's defense occurred because all the South American players were keen to score at least once. It is worth saying that they succeeded at the very end of the match. However, at first, on the 89th minute, another failure in the defense of Brazil led to the fact that Ozil went one on one with the goalkeeper Cesar. However, the German's blow came close to the post. The Brazilians scored in the next attack. Oscar dealt with the German defender and the goalkeeper in the penalty area. It happened at the 90th minute of the meeting.
The final score of 7 - 1 in favor of Germany sends the Europeans to the World Cup final, and the Brazilians will now have to be content with a match for third place.
The German team played amazing football. Excessive academicism in previous matches turned into a monstrous destructive attacking power in the semifinal meeting. This game will forever go down in the history of the world championships as an educational tool for outstanding football. And the performance of the Brazilian players in the semifinal match of the 2014 World Cup can be seen as a clear example of how you can not play football.
