Blahzil - The humiliating Brazilian defeat

Gary Lineker talks about Brazil's "astonishing" 7-1 defeat at the hands of Germany in their World Cup semi-final match in Belo Horizonte. Gary says it was one of the most "extraordinary" games he has ever seen and is full of praise for some "beautiful" German goals.
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[@heinerlauter1211]

Lineker for me is this typical english sportsman, respecting the game and the better team. Thats why i love watching football with english commentators! from munich, bavaria

[@publicminx]

I agree, from Berlin ...

[@11Kralle]

I agree - there is nothing worse than german commentators, from Ougadougou, Burkina Faso. ...just kidding.

[@samtross]

*i couldnt agree more !!!* gary lineker is one of the finest, funniest sportsman i know in football. hes an excellent commentator and even if he is not really a fan of german football, he respects it. thx gary for the WC 2010 and 2014, i enjoyed watching the games with u. i wish so much german football would be commented by english sportsman..

[@Nora02583]

heiner lauter Couldn't agree more. Lineker is superb.

[@MrDekkert]

+heiner lauter Lineker is the English face to the world. I like him a lot. Not I like his companions Hansen and Shearer, the high praise of cheap effects sake teams or blame in the basement.

[@kpl455]

Brilliant commentator, always fair, always objective, always witty.

[@steelflex]

You’re joking...

[@ENDZYT]

@@steelflex how is he joking bro

[@steelflex]

@@ENDZYT English commentators love to hate on Italian squads and especially the national team - bee like that for decades. Heavy English squad bias, but that’s excusable. Gaga over Brazilian and Germans... Point is, hardly down the middle, neutral. That aside, they do a fine job.

[@colmd7680]

Witty would be a stretch. His jokes can be cringey

[@knutkatastrophe2722]

Good joke. The arrogant snowflake

[@Me-ll4ig]

Lineker is a great presenter on everything he does. Very professional. As for Germany, they’ve been in 8 WC Finals and 6 European Championship Finals that’s not counting semi-final defeats. Astonishing record. My country England, just one World Cup Final and TV keep showing it. Can you imagine if we had won the World Cup and Euro Championship as many times as Germany, it would never be off TV.

[@palois8407]

Yea it would bc you wouldn't have to claim your country is good at football It would be true

[@clb4947]

@@palois8407💀💀💀

[@saints16o5o87]

On the contrary, had England won even what France or Spain has achieved nevr mind Italy or Germany it would be on TV far less. The constant Three Lions, 1966 nonsense very much plays a part in putting unrealistic goals every 2 years on a team where the media pressure and sniping at the slightest let down only accentuates the players often great performances being ridiculed as failures. The sad fact is England are on a par with Greece, Denmark, Holland and Portugal in Major trophies and are similar to Holland in falling at the final hurdle. Having only 1 major tournament win, at home and with an obvious howler from the linesman and ref for a goal that wasn't even close to crossing the line is why its constantly talked up at every WC or Euros. The media calls for Southgate to move on were crazy. He has done more than any England manager at major finals bar one game. For me many of the players are over-rated and play better at club level in England because they are surrounded by foreign players who make them better. The number of EPL big name foreign players make it a great league but at the cost of the English youngsters and the successful national leagues and teams rarely have an English player where all the big English sides are full of the best players from other nations. Another let down 2 weeks ago, though no one could argue Spain were heads and shoulders above every team in the tournament. The best chance was blown at Wembley 3 years ago and I have to admit some late goals particularly vs Slovakia merely papered over the cracks.

[@getthecansin]

He has recently shown himself as a retard

[@roberthintze9136]

big respect from germany for gary lineker,he was one one of many from england players we all like in germany trust me best greatings from a villa fan from here

[@nevillegregory3044]

A very good summary of how Germany amazed everyone and how dumb founded we all were. Gary Linear showing his skill as a brilliant football presenter and pundit.

[@relentero8547]

Gary Linear… good one bud

[@aldorfc7287]

Gary vinegar

[@Kreisverkehr96]

Gary linear < Gary exponential 😄

[@brrrrrtenjoyer]

@@Kreisverkehr96 Gary Quadratic and Gary Logarithmic are both clear of Exponential

[@johnhonai4601]

Gary Parabolic, Gary Hyperbolic, Gary Nonlinear, Gary Square Law.

[@marioroth2987]

Garry Lineker is a great english sportsman! 💪 Best Regards from Germany!

[@dtssnapback2002]

Mario Roth it’s English you dumb bitch

[@groppermilk]

@@dtssnapback2002 -- English is not Mario's mother tongue, du Arschloch!

[@uwefischer6671]

He is so much spot on, exactly capturing as well as analyzing what happened. Really admirable.

[@nekola203]

I remember I was 8 years old. My idol was matthäus, my demon Maradona. My favorites were Baresi, Maldini, Roger Milla, Gazzo and gary lineker. My favorite teams were Germany, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia. As grew up I learned rivalry is about respect rather than hate. Gary, I learned to know u better as a host and as years gone by, my respect has grew as much. - From an Iranian child who took refuge and now living as a proud Canadian today

[@hEcinen]

i'll try to let that sink in: rivalry is not about hate, it's about respect. nice. i like that.

[@schattensand6129]

Incredulity, not many football guys do have such elaborate expressions activly to offer. He is a gentleman.

[@1auriculatus]

I remember the 1990 final and I cannot believe it took 24 years of pain and agony until they won another one......something I will never forget and cherish for years to come!

[@derhesse4360]

+1auriculatus 24 sounds much but 24:4 equals 6, so it was the 6th attempt and the truth is it isnt easy to win a WC because there are other teams as well like netherlands, italy, brasil, argentina, england, france and so on. The only pitty is that germany was always got so close and losing finals and semin finals. For example 2002 against brazil which was a pitty because germany was the better team against brazil but a rare Oliver Kahn goalkeeper mistake lost that game and then you have the strong period of spain in the last years which was a pitty as well because spain had really a once in a century team with Iniesta, Xavi, Ramos etc.. Its always luck to win such a WC, i dont have much hopes for the euro cup this year, germany is kind of out of form at the moment. I would bet my money on france, great young team with potenital future staer players like Kingsley Coman. Germany has again injured players and out of form players.

[@e.tressag4143]

+DerHesse i am an ardant germany Fan, but brasil was the better Team 2002. if not for the amazing Kahn, germany would never have gotten far in that tournament.

[@derhesse4360]

Egmont Tressag germany was by far the better team in the final against brasil, thats what i meant. They dominated the game but lost because of a rare Kahn mistake, the first in the whole tournament from him. A ball slipped from his hands after a relative weak Ronaldo shot.

[@thefreethinkingboy9403]

Mate I had to watch the Netherlands lose the world Cup final, not qualify for 2 tournaments in a row after finishing 3rd, and watch ajax bottle the champions league semi final

[@TheKickingDonkey]

@@thefreethinkingboy9403 Fair Enough! When you say it like that, one might feel awefully spoiled as DFB-supporter.

[@goattm2]

To be fair, it was hilarious seeing Brazil get humbled like this on their own soil. They weren't a good team and scraped their way through to the semis. The best team definitely won.

[@Emper0rH0rde]

Brazil got deeper than they probably deserved to. They drew against South American opponents in *both* preceding knockout rounds, and it was pretty obvious they were hanging by a *thread* against Colombia. Germany were clearly a superior team, but there is no way they should have scored more than three goals. What we saw in that game was a home team that was in over their heads, and cracking apart under the pressure. 'Cause remember, they were missing *two* of their star players.

[@Dennis-gr8ex]

​@@Emper0rH0rde So what injuries are part of football..

[@mateuslucena524]

5>>>4

[@beyonddivinity7076]

@@Emper0rH0rde we had to play the whole tournament without one of our best players aswell in Marco reus, so what 🤷🏼‍♂️ if you want to win a world cup you can't completly fall apart if 1 or 2 players get injured.

[@Rehash84]

Having their stupid god nonsense rammed down our throats all month made it all the sweeter. Where is your god now?

[@hrothgar64]

As I've said elsewhere, Brazil had lost this game before they kicked a ball, that night. Clutching Neymar's shirt and crying during the anthems, they were psychologically broken. Germany sensed that and they were brutal and clinical.

[@fightingforce8498]

Correct. I think Brazil was robbed by their own mindset.

[@beyonddivinity7076]

They just were completely overrated. They played like trash before but got away with their diving machine neymar. I felt sorry for the Brazilian fans, but that team just deserved this loss more than any other at this tournament

[@benh2807]

I think they let their passion overcome them

[@skymanxd6366]

@@benh2807no passion for the sport is literally what can get you through, what eliminated them was just the natural skill of Brazilians just died, it just seemed like Brazil weren’t playing like Brazil

[@MannequinStep]

​@@skymanxd6366the had a defeated mentality, the two team leaders were missing, they was playing poorly anyway and their team was not as good as Germany's. Plus as well they struggled with the pressure

[@Clem_Fandango11]

How about that was the greatest "pressing" side we have ever seen, and probably the best balanced midfields I have seen.

[@lannaldo]

Always love listening to Gary’s opinions, he gets it spot on most of the time

[@neworderfan0532]

For me, as a german, it was revenge to our lost match in the 2002 WC finals. I am far too young to have witnessed the WC in 2002, but as I began rewatching old matches and I watched the match against Brazil, my heart literally broke in the moment Kahn made this silly mistake and Ronaldo scored. Especially when he sat there, back leaning against the post with an expression on his face that makes you want to cheer him up and tell him everything is alright, although his dream just got crushed, I almost cried. Not because Germany lost, but because Kahn lost after carrying an entire nation into the finals by himself. So you can see, it was almsot satisfying to see the Brazilian team losing, after this really painful defeat 12 years ago(actually it are 19 years by now).

[@issacthankachan3289]

I watched the 2002 WC match live. Germany missed Ballack in finals who was the match winner in quarter and semis. As a 12 year old, I was the only one supporting Germany in that room and every one else, my dad and his friends were Brazilian supporters. They tore me up that day. Fast forward to 2014, I watched this match in a sporting club shack projected on screen. Me and my younger brother were the only 2 supporters of Germany. And yes we had our revenge that night. Never had so much fun.

[@Japhu]

Bro we shouldn't have been there from the start on :D only Ballack and Kahn were world class and they carried us to the finals. That brazil team really deserved the cup tho. Full of legends and actually playing very well.

[@MW-mg3qf]

@@Japhu Klose aswell so as Schneider the most underrated Player ever. But yes their are not the best Footballers at that time, but a very strong Team, like alwyas.

[@OkabexKurisu]

If Kahn would have stepped down for the team, wouldve been different story. Playing injured because of ego...😅

[@krischan67]

This victory, together with the final, although being 4 years in the past, will nourish me until the end of my life. We got thrown out in 2018 in a humiliating manner, but this victory was for eternity and the WC win made it supreme. I'm probably biased, but the 2014 WC was by far the greatest WC I've ever seen and I've seen them all since 1974.

[@jeanvaljean7266]

My all time favourite WC still remains Italy 1990!

[@stuckupcurlyguy]

2014 had everything, 2018 had some of the best upsets of all time

[@BaguetteOfDoom]

I think the most fun World Cup was 2010. It just had such a special vibe to it.

[@SharkDaddy514]

2014 for me because im a germany fan and i went to 3 games in brazil. opening game, germany-portugal and croatia-cameroon :)

[@matsfagerkull5958]

@@jeanvaljean7266 I partly agree because of the win and that that the great Andy Bhreme was in the team. But WC1982 must be a close call in my book because of the fantastic Brazilian and French teams and the dramatic SF Germany won on PKshoot out.

[@neilefc877]

I had very little sympathy for Brazil watching that match. Throughout the tournament they played a dirty, cynical style assisted by some notably favorable refereeing decisions. Beautiful Brazil died a long time ago.

[@DutchDixon94]

I agree with you completely. Brazil didn't deserve to get to the semi finals. They dived and cheated their way throughout the competition!

[@hEcinen]

after all those years finally someone who saw that aswell. brazil played awful the whole tournament and didnt even really deserve to get to the semis. they were highly overrated.

[@relentero8547]

@@hEcinen exactly. They were also very arrogant throughout the tournament

[@largol33t1]

One person who saw a replay of that match complained "The Brazilians did more dives in this match than the German Navy ever did!" LMAO...

[@gumdeo]

They completely lost any organization or discipline they had up to that point.

[@Andres3095]

Lineker is a pro.

[@Blueridge1961]

Gary Lineker ist just a flawless sportsman. Always fair and competent. Beyond that, he seems to be quite intelligent. Represents the sport in a very good manner!

[@stefanblue660]

Thank you Gary, you were right then, I often watch German football games with English commentators, more passion, fun,respect for both teams and competetence.

[@marketgarden6196]

^^its about to come to an end^^ awesome Gary Lineker, great guy in television

[@SuperMuskete]

Gary Lineker ist einfach ein Super Typ

[@peterhammer4644]

Of all England players I have always had massive respect for both Gary Lineker and Alan Shearer. Not just when they were playing but also as commentators.

[@tomato12terra]

a brilliant piece of commentary by a real great sportsman and presenter

[@anno4life]

Neymar and Silva missing for one game? We didn't have Reus for the whole tournament!

[@eternalchamp3882]

and Reus was actually good unlike the other two for Brasil xD

[@piggy8761]

@@eternalchamp3882 thiago silva is the captain and one of the more solid defenders in the world...

[@carlito6038]

don't compare reus with neymar

[@patrickt601]

​@@carlito6038youre right neymar doesnt deserve to be compared with reus

[@KanoneOlaf]

Thank You Very Much Gary ! God Save The Queen...From Germany...Peace !

[@Rypio_39]

One of the few English experts I really like and can take serious

[@VoiceOfThe]

‘Seriously’

[@alemgas]

He's an over paid wanker

[@chrishimmelmann]

@@alemgas It‘s a mirror that you’re talking to.

[@alemgas]

@@chrishimmelmann are you in the wankers brotherhood ,keep on pulling

[@myaphextwin807]

@Rypio which none English experts do you take seriously, seriously?

[@56postoffice]

I watched the game live gobsmacked. It also showed it wasn't a one off as Germany went on to become World Champions.

[@thomasfoster1899]

Retire gary let another make a few bob 😈😈

[@mugishaisaac4488]

GERMANY HELD BACK IN THE SECOND HALF. THEY COULD HAVE 10 GOALS.

[@mundaneman1811]

Why an idiot? Its an accurate comment

[@kerelasfinest4496]

@King Brilliant me like curry

[@ahmoehrendorf]

Mugisha Isaac is right. Germany did hold back beginning of the second half. Their coach told them during the break that anybody who would be showboating or showing lack of respect will not play in the final. It was difficult to hold the players back on earth after this victory against Brazil to be focussed on the final game against Argentina. Just imagine how difficult it might have been if Germany would have scored more than 10 goals agains Brazil...

[@andreasw.4356]

Easy 10 Goals. Germany play in second half 50%. And your 1000 was the Brasilien Fans who was leaving the Stadium bevor second half.

[@juliakc3750]

Gary Germany loves you

[@der7tezwerg921]

nadiesabe quieneseste Get yourself a brain, ''Otto''. You are in need of one, that's for sure.

[@Nora02583]

nadiesabe quieneseste I get it. We beat you by 7 goals, but get over it. Geez.

[@olyolyoly3]

Nora02583 u lost 2 world wars get over it please

[@olyolyoly3]

Gog Mclaine your country is an imperial power who steals others nation resources

[@olyolyoly3]

Gog Mclaine your right! because brazil got raped in 2 world wars and did the Holocaust

[@andreaskulow180]

One of the greatest sportsmen ever!

[@s7umpf]

gary, u'r a graet man - respective had been a great footballer. good objective analysis from somebody who actually knows what's going on on the field. keep up the good work! ..love to have somebody like that on german tv

[@PraizeVE123]

I was in England on holiday with my parents to see family and friends. That night i watched that game with my grandparents, my grandad was 90% blind and a little bit deaf so he struggled to watch the games but he always had them on to listen to the results. He couldn't believe when i kept shouting out when germany scored. I don't have many memories with my grandad who's since passed, but i will never forget that night.

[@TheRealBoroNut]

It must be hurtful that one of your last memories or your beloved grandad is him calling you a "little lying get".

[@PpunktP]

Danke Jungs,es war WUNDERSCHÖN

[@huhnchen_4603]

Bekomme immer Gänsehaut, wenn ich das sehe😍

[@GarethSavin]

Still got that game on my Sky planner. That was an absolute master class from Germany that night,absolutely ruthless.

[@jhanson404]

Like everyone else we've all watched hundreds of games but that I genuinely can say I couldn't believe what I was watching.

[@slapshot1701]

lineker the best sports man ever, in 100 years the spoke about him

[@harryhirsch8527]

muahaha good one

[@ineuron]

As a German national team fan, I love Gary

[@maximkretsch7134]

"Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win." (Gary Lineker)

[@marketgarden6196]

Much love for Gary and his comments

[@matsfagerkull5958]

the most hilarious match I have ever seen. When Klose scored his 16th world cup goal I was jeering in exitement and at 4-0 I started to laugh. 5-0 shocked me and 6,7-0 it was painful to see the brazilians.

[@matsfagerkull5958]

Angered, I too jeered When Klose scored and laughed at 4-0. Bult it nerver got painful I might had problem breathing, gasping för air between laughs. It was the best 6 min of my life from 2-0 to 5-0

[@0anant0]

Even more painful to watch the spectators not giving a f*** when they finally scored.

[@1258-Eckhart]

The KZbin algorithm has become obsessed with this Brazil defeat.

[@keir92]

Always good to see

[@nevik9641]

You could see this coming from the start of the tournament...Brazil were a big accident waiting to happen and they had a lot of favourable decisions go their way to get as far as they did and the minute they came up against a very good team they were found out.

[@petergreen2552]

THE craziest game of football I've ever seen. Who could have predicted what happened by half an hour into it?

[@beyonddivinity7076]

Well I mean of course I didn't expected THAT, but idk I honestly never understood why people expected such a close game. Brazil wasn't playing good football at all, my whole family laughed when I said it'll be an uncontested 4-0 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@jmalcomfortescue6587]

We'll never know what the game would've been like if Brazil had had Neymar and Thiago! Personally I think we still would have won and probably in a similar manner. Why? What beat the Brazilians on this day, wasn't necessarily a world class german side, although that did do it's part! What beat the Brazilians was the pressure they put upon themselves and the fact that they had no real leader. Take the 1994 side for example. Not great Brazilian team, they could and maybe should've gone out to the US in the last sixteen but what hel them together was a captain called Dunga! The Brazilian team of 2014 lacked that kind of personality. Watching the game in Germany, I knew the minute we scored the first goal, we'd win. The Brazilians just couldn't live up to thier own expecttions and basically succumbed to that pressure. Differing opinions and discussions are welcome!

[@danilloclm]

I'm Brazilian and I fully agree

[@uwefischer6671]

Unfortunately the rest of the world would not agree. This Brazil side was already with Neymar and Thiago shit (maybe just a little less shit, but still shit), and reached by luck and some biased refereeing the semis. How one can be so wilfully naive to believe they would have been able to beat this German side eludes me.

[@FN-ek2wz]

J Malcom Fortescue Germany had to play the WC without their probably most gifted player…Marco Reus.

[@agnikaineverdies7646]

J Malcom Fortescue, Germany would have won but it wouldn’t have been as humiliating Probably like 4-2 or 5-3

[@basedelon]

It was obvious to me watching the tourney, I said that the first top team Brazil meet would beat them easily and I said the same in 2018 too. Rio & Shearer didn't give Germany a chance, if you remember the pre-match punditry.

[@beyonddivinity7076]

Same, I never understood why everyone expected a close game. My whole family actually laughed when I said it'll be an uncontested 4-0 for Germany and I sat there and was wondering if they had even watched 1 brazil game. They played like sh*t 😂

[@kevinprior3549]

Gary has aged very quickly now

[@tom-mb7jd]

Perfectly summed up by a Gary still 'suffering' from incredulity

[@thomHD]

Lineker is one of the only major figures in English football who comes across as middle class and well educated. It's unfashionable to say, but one of the reasons English football struggles to produce certain types of players and managers is because sport is still so divided by class -- a certain half of the country is playing cricket and rugby.

[@Holydecipher]

Thom Harrison Rugby isn't the most "upper class sport" if you're trying to point that out.

[@fishyfred2107]

Thom Harrison More of the half of the young german WC winning team got an A-level or similar degree. They look for it in german football schools that their players are on a certain mental and intellectual level.

[@Holydecipher]

Fishy Fred I guess he wasn't refering to the players, it's more the fans that are the "issue".

[@derhesse4360]

+Holydecipher golf or polo are sports for hte upper class, not rugby. football is like compatible in any class.

[@lewistaylor9328]

DerHesse rugby is an upper class game, most players were private schooled

[@no_one_of_that_name_here]

Such a happy day.

[@FoxyFox999]

Can't remember that one. When was that, 2018. I only remember like yesterday many decades ago.

[@DJ-jn3on]

I remember it well. Brazil were nothing in that game. Many knew they were 'helped ' to the semi, especially against Paraguay. That should have been investigated by FIFA, but no,it was Brazil, so no action was taken. It was a great World Cup, but seeing Brazil get to that stage when Germany deservedly humiliated them,spoke volumes for me.I will always remember the Brazil when Pele played for them.They were great to watch, and I hoped Pele and his team mates back then, were outraged by their own countrymen going on like that. Still, roll on the next World Cup. :)

[@infomatters.]

I wonder how many goals Germany would have scored if they had kept on attacking.

[@spreadthelove77]

At least 12!

[@youngdolo8]

I'm certain Özil missed that last one on purpose. Wouldn't have been worth the bother.

[@hektorares3678]

Or with Reus at this time.

[@MrCmon113]

Could have been 10-0.

[@hellund2874]

Germany begins every WC struggling, sometimes barely getting past the first rounds. They start weak and finish strong.

[@contra7376]

Gary - you guys are part of our success - because your roots are german too: ANGLO-SAXON (German tribes). :)

[@MybeautifulandamazingPrincess]

Yeah, English are Germans that's clear. (And dutch and danish)

[@LordZontar]

Watching Brazil's total collapse in the match against Germany in the 2014 World Cup was the most astonishing sight I had ever seen viewing this sport or indeed any sport. I couldn't believe what I was seeing even as the disaster unfolded in real time. I watched that tournament on ESPN and I remember how Ian Darke and Steve McManaman couldn't believe what they were seeing. And yet, looking back, there were indications of trouble for the Brazilians such as the way they struggled against a Mexican side that, on paper, they should have been vastly superior to but weren't. And then they go on to get their asses kicked in by Netherlands in the Third Place match.

[@NuketownLA1234]

Lineker #legend BTW I felt good Germany won that, it was our revenge from 2002...

[@peterrafeiner9461]

+Venom F1 Revenge with compound interest :-)

[@jimtim8805]

Other kids laughed at me when I supported Germany in 2002 against great Brazilian team. I started supporting Germany (as I'm not from Germany) ever since then and was waiting for Germany to win the world cup and take revenge on the way against Brazil. Never thought it would be this humiliating though. It is indeed revenge with compound interest!

[@indahooddererste]

@@jimtim8805 the german 2002 team was mediocre and brazil at that time was superior as a german i never thought we could win this. but after that time the team moved a major step forward the good mix of old and new fresh players was key. over the next decade the team grew together with leading players like lahm and schweinsteiger. for that team it was about time to win something.

[@juergensuess9041]

Gary my old mate, you know who wins 😍

[@charleroi66]

And to think a year after this he'd see his boyhood team go from the Great Escape, then 5000-1 PL winners and then CL Quarterfinalists.

[@Onmysheet]

I don't understand why people were surprised by the outcome of the match. If anyone had been following the Bundesliga, you would know full well that the German team would've annihilated them.

[@chanman4rings]

It's not so much the result, it was how it happened. I mean Brazil giving up 4 goals in 6 minutes.... at home! It's hard to score 7 goals against another team, even a bad team, much less Brazil in Brazil, but Germany made it look easy. That's why the result is shocking. No Thiago, no Neymar, it doesn't matter, your team is in the world cup semifinal, there's no excuse for a scoreline like that. That's why people are blown away by the outcome. I was expecting a 3-1 victory for Germany, not 7-1 and Germany stopped playing from the 30th minute until the 70th. This result could have been much worse. I mean when your opponent shows mercy on you, that means they feel bad, that says something. If Germany put in a result like this against a team they really hate, like Argentina then they would have kept scoring lol. Look at the Germany Portugal game as an example. Germany is far better than Portugal and went up a man in the game as well. Portugal still stopped the bleeding and managed to threaten Germany a few times. They had no chance of winning, but they weren't COMPLETELY embarrassed. Many people were expecting a game similar to that. Anyway yeah it's the result and how the game went that's left everyone shocked. I mean David Luiz is your captain... he left poor Dante back there by himself for like 4 or 5 goals.

[@Fruehlingseffekt]

That's massivly overexaggerated. Brazil is Brazil, and no one would expected that result. BRA lost their 2 key players, and if they would have played Brazil would have played more like a unit. The 2-0 complettly killed them, things where falling apart from there, and there was no one they could've fall back onto.

[@Onmysheet]

Fruehlingseffekt This Brazil ain't the Brazil in 2002. The loss of two key players doesn't make a difference, Germany had a full quality squad, whereas Brazil had a average squad, with the exception of Neymar. I'll admit i wasn't expecting a 7-1, more like 4-1 or 3-0. Once the Germans got in flow there was no stopping them.

[@NirvanaFan4Life]

The bundesliga is shit, as evidenced by Ronaldo raping them en route to Real Madrid's 17-4 aggregate destruction of the league's top 3 last year. Brazil gave up in that game and made an average team look good, nothing more. Why else does anyone think that a Netherlands team that set a record for longest goal drought in the KO stages managed 3 against them? Has nothing to do with a bunch of lucky, overrated Germans.

[@Onmysheet]

NirvanaFan4Life Overrated? Germany have reached past the QF of the last 6 tournaments. 3 finals, 3 semi finals. They are the strongest team (Mentally)

[@fks8800]

I can't believe still Brazil loosing that embarrassing way 😣🚶

[@jannevalentin6111]

The difference; small emotional boys against cool and collected pros!!

[@Hartmut-oo5ts]

Now it's been almost 10 years, and up to today none of the pundits noted that the Germans wore the ACTUAL JERSEY of Flamengo Rio de Janeiro! THAT FC most revered worldwide for their utmost beatiful style of play! I think the germans honored their role models well!

[@carnalea2424]

Not exactly a football comment I'm about to make, but the BBC recently showed 3 1-hour programmes about the Georgian kings in the 18th century. Basically we invited George (the first )from Hannover to become our next monarch as there was no obvious successor to Queen Anne.I like to things are changing with the younger generation, who see the war as ancient history, but sometimes I still despair at how many people in England still regard Germans with suspicion. I actually have friends who travel quite a lot, but very few of them ever consider going to Germany - and if I point this out to them, they simply say 'well, not sure if I would like to go there/not sure how I'd be treated.'

[@cLu1410]

You are very welcome in Germany! There are so many english people here settling down, specially after the Brexit vote. I have few english friends and I don't really see any differences besides the language. We all have the same thoughts.

[@mishynaofficial]

10th anniversary, everyone! The most iconic moment in the sport history.

[@henrichvonstaufenberg4841]

Alves also was missing why is everybody forgetting about him..... but even with these three players Germany was the major favourite.....

[@beyonddivinity7076]

Nobody talks about reus either, just saying. But tbh Brazil played the whole tournament like sh*t. Ofc 7-1 was crazy but if you've seen the Brazil games before it was no surprise that Germany won pretty uncontested

[@andreasesser4641]

I remember everyone bemoaning that Neymar was missing. It was all "Win for Neymar, win for Neymar" before the match. Nobody seemed to care that Thiago Silva, captain and organizer of Brazilian defense was missing. That defense crumbled without Thiago Silva. Major reason Germany could score 7.

[@raphaelcruz6705]

As a Brazilian, I agree that brazil was not a full squad. It was Neymar, Thiago Silva and then everybody else. But that’s not exactly their fault for having such a terrible lineup since filipao as a coach was an anticlimactic time capsule from brazils last World Cup win. He outright ignored defensive talents such as Luis Filipe and Miranda who were dominating at atletico Madrid at the time. Along with Marcelo who had never been where he should’ve been (in defense) in ANY of the games and even afterwards. The defense was left to David Luiz to fend for his own. **TLDR** •Germany was by far the better team •The coach sucked •I’m glad Marcelo no longer plays for Brazil

[@sc2124]

For Brazil to go from the r9, Carlos, kaka, Cafu, Ronaldinho era to this team was quite astonishing

[@tomastobias7061]

Great call there.

[@andrewpearson5504]

Still loving this result.

[@oposoum]

Even this match was extraordinary for the football world due the score,I think that's when Brazil was shocked was in 1998 when that great Brazilian team lost by 3-0 to France in the final.

[@sheturaj7437]

German team respected the Brazil fans otherwise the scoreline would have easily been 12-0

[@jerjes78]

Lineker must the only English player who is respect it here in Argentina (even though he had a nasty habit to ALWAYS score against us). A truly gentleman of the game. PS: Is it true that he never have been booked o red carded in his entire career?

[@sultanabran1]

probably my favourite game of football ever. 1. i love germany. 2. i really don't like brazil, because they dive, go down easily, cheap, don't like their football culture at all. 3. seeing the brazilian fans cry was so good. i loved the demolition i witnessed

[@josephmartelli9010]

This match marked the death of the innocence, beauty and magic of samba football. It has never been a beautiful game ever since.

[@klauszungler4644]

Thank you Gary Lineker be proud of you Anglo Saxon roots and may God save your German Queen

[@Bayern2004]

Brilliant comment.Their Queen is really... German.But hush....Do not tell everybody else.

[@InterYamah]

@@Bayern2004 and we are all africans ♥ born from the oceans created by stardust. we are all connected from a singularity

[@matt94alexander32]

He’s not proud to be English, he’s a Left-wing nobhead who supported Brazil in 2014 rather than England.

[@pjani14]

@@matt94alexander32 Gary Lineker is not proud to be English? Could you be any more dumb.

[@matt94alexander32]

Jingle Ma It happens to be true, why do you doubt it? Because he put an England shirt on 30 years ago?

[@no_one_of_that_name_here]

Brazil forgot to pay all their usual bribes that day

[@lemmym7393]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@MrUndersolo]

You cannot bribe a machine made in German!

[@Leon_der_Luftige]

K August Except cars by VW, Opel, Audi...

[@AJ_real]

I think Brazil just got stunned with the first two goals! And it was a meltdown after that. But it was great to see Brazil getting beat.

[@reneperez2126]

why?

[@kiviuq3495]

The Brazilian team, which wasn't that strong in 2014, relied heavily on Neymar. Not only as a player, but as a talismanic figure. Without him, the team collapsed like a withered husk.

[@tonybates7870]

Thing is, you can take Gary Lineker seriously, because not only is he articulate but he's a Golden Boot winner, from 1986. Had he played more than his eighty games he'd be way ahead of Rooney in terms of England goals. He was Tottenham, too.

[@martinranalli8572]

Brazil, Italy and Germany, the 3 most successful teams in the FIFA World Cup all had a 24 year gap between their 3rd and 4th World Cups.

[@LednacekZ]

did not feel even a little sorry for the brazilian players. They were on the pitch. I felt sorry for the rest of the brazil.

[@bighardman33]

That was a bloody hammering boy.

[@cahillgreg]

You've been hammered by boys on occasion too Jonathan.

[@Simple1Jack]

Who else kept expecting it to cut to a couple of other pundits sitting there?

[@leeturton9254]

Getting hammered like that in your own world cup for a team and country like Brazil must have caused some serious depression...a footballing nightmare of epic proportions

[@marketgarden6196]

Much love Gary...

[@axku408]

Never forget that a random dude on a street interview predicted the final result of 7:1

[@andrewsharp768]

Y'know, I don't think Gary was too happy about that result...

[@lfcspectre4335]

I still don't understand how this Brazil team reach semi final stage doing this World Cup tournament. Definitely worst Brazilian team, I've seen in my lifetime in terms of quality wasn't a team bunch of individual ego's.

[@34Packardphaeton]

IMO, the biggest single factor was the dreadfully poor team defense by the Brazilians. The worst goal surrendered was the 4th German goal.. in which Tony Kroos stole the ball from the Brazilian defender -- who had his back to Kroos.

[@carlo344]

Lineker was an excellent player and is also a world class pundit. The English broadcasting is so much better than the German.

[@Arsenic71]

Not just in football, in pretty any sport (especially F1).

[@carlo344]

@@Arsenic71 didn’t know that to be honest.

[@Emper0rH0rde]

Brazil were a team that got deeper into the knockout rounds than they probably deserved, found themselves in over their heads, and ended up cracking apart under the pressure.

[@LazarusSlade]

This game could have easily ended 10-0!

[@theoilandgasresourceportal2132]

Dont agree with his politics, but respect him as a great broadcaster.

[@dpj1]

It felt wrong to watch a funeral on live TV

[@canalmusicaefutebol4587]

After the generation lost, Ronaldinho Gaucho declined in quality, Kaká had a hard injury in his waist, Adriano abandoned football and etc... It was normal to renew the players, however, the pressure of playing at home would be a trap and it was a trap. Despite this, our local football are weaker due to the market of football which get young players like Gabriel Martinelli has who never played professionally in Brazil and is already playing for a big team in Europe. All this combination , among others, have contributed to change the relation with Brazilians with football. Now, in 2020, in spite of this difficult time, Brazilian football afterwards the great season done by Flamengo which played a football trying to attack and to be alike that one that we played in the past, the things come across to have improved. The other teams are trying to change the football too. In the 90´s the success of Big Phill "Felipão" who always played football different from our tradition (to attack and keep te ball under control ) dominated our football scenario, however, this time is ending. Brazilian football tend to improve again.

[@0anant0]

Yes, it was a humiliating defeat, but IMHO, that loss against Uruguay in 1950 World Cup was epic! There were victory parades and floats for each player and special anthem all ready for post-game celebrations -- and Brazil didn't even have to win that game to win the cup! And they were almost the champions till the last 11 minutes...

[@louishoek7705]

Gary Legedary Lineker has massive Respect 4 Germany He faced them and saw 1st hand tha Coldness?Andriod Robotic no fFear or doubts over 120 + Penalties " Football is a simple Game, 22 Men chase the ball 4 90min and in the end the Germans win" That 2012 Allianz Arena Final Bastian was nerveous, scared disrupted compared to the WC F Brazil has orhad the flair/dance of Football but their opposite 100 year partner dominating he did did Germany but like Andriods, Cold heart3d if only th3 won WC 1982 & 1986 or 1 of them to go along with 1990

[@sunnycriti9809]

BBC always put Brasil as favourite to win world cup