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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
the fact that neymar wasn't there made brazil's attack completely ineffectual. hence, in order to score, their fullbacks had to push all the way up all the time.
It looked like Oscar was shellshocked by Germany until that final goal..
this collective pour forward got their midfield and defense in disarray--this from the start, before even trying to equalize.
and while dante is a capable defender, though not a star, it seems like silva's role was also to run his defense like buffon does with his (holler, command, etc). e.g, putting the reins on david luiz so he doesn't get lost upfront or gets possessed by the holy spirit. i don't see julio césar doing that, as he's too busy being frightened. and did you see marcelo all over the fucking place? huge lack of leadership on defense.
so this is how during that unreal half an hour i think they got *completely* disorganized. because germany was bound to win if it was to be a fair game, just not so atrociously easily. it was like they were playing saudi arabia or something. one of the commentators said that it was like they left the children (you know the ones who come in for the anthems) in their place.
felipăo fucked up big. but then again he didn't really had a winning squad so i think that forced his hand. kaká is not what he used to be but maybe he would have provided alternatives to that shit offense. do they really have no better keepers than julio césar? he was so fucking slow. robinho? etc.
they had good defenders though, but a poor defense, paradoxically-- he probably should have fortified that and build up from there, instead of around neymar or neymar's void, but as the gringos say hindsight is 20/20. i don't know what was going through his head but if anything brazil got what it deserved-- because they didn't deserve to be here after how they ruined colombia.
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Great effort at trying to salvage some kind of analysis to explain that implosion, shit was batshit crazy I'm not exactly sure it can really ever be explained, neither by the Brazilians or even the Germans!
My two cents:
At the end of the day, it looked like Brazil (a) just wasn't prepared for the precision passing and particularly rebounding on the German side, maybe because Germany had only scored 1 goal in each of their past few games the Brazilians scouts underestimated the German attack and (b) it really looked like Brazil regretted their exceptionally physical defense from the Colombia game and were playing soft to kind of overcompensate for the roughness of their last match. They looked like they were almost playing overly cautious defense when in reality they should have been playing for red cards after it went 3-0 in 18 minutes!