Quote:IMO, Brazil is lucky to have gotten as far as they did. 

 

I expected them to lose in the previous game, vs. Columbia. Columbia played really well during this WC & I think Brazil was just spent after beating what I think was the better team (maybe not that particular day), but overall. It doesn't shock me to see Brazil get smoked yesterday. Now, I'm surprised at the goal total, but not surprised at them losing. 

i think alot of what happen yesterday was a result of brazil gettin down early and trying to hard to get it back... they ended up spreading their team out to much and left their D on an island against the german counter attack... when america played them, we were so defensive that we virtually eliminated their counter attack but we also eliminated our offense.... i said before the tournament started i thought brazil was way over rated but i dont think anyone would have guessed they would take a beating like that...brazil needed to go defensive after the second goal and put 10 men on thier side of the pitch but they never really did... they couldn't hold possession on thier attacks and as a result their D got slaughtered.

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