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Embarrassing, Disgraceful, utter shambles are not even words enough to describe what we witnessed last night. We were watching the most successful nation in World football. The team that has won the maximum number of world cups. The team that has had the honour of playing in the finals for an unprecedented 7 times. It was built up as the clash of the titans. What we saw has left the world speechless.

A performance that typifies the nature of each of the teams: RUTHLESS Germans and TOOTHLESS Brazilians.

I have always felt this Brazilian team is the weakest I have ever seen. The brilliance of Neymar and Leadership of Thiago Silva covered the deficiencies of a team riddled with mistakes and over-enthusiastic players who fail to perform the job that they are chosen to do. Despite the Brazilian weakness we have to take our hats off to the germans who simply never stopped. Being a Germany fan myself I was really hoping the referee stops the game midway through first half and save the yellow army from further embarrassment.

Last nights performance was a prime example of what happens when you make an attempt to be a jack of all trades and master of none. Dante looked rusty. Maicon was overrun at every possible opportunity. Marcelo was non-existent in the defence when the Germans were bombing forward. Luiz, well last night typified all the flaws in the game of this flair player with no defensive discipline. There was a moment in the first half when Mueller was bombing down the wings and Marcelo was not even on the TV screens and Luiz was making a lung busting run from the opposition half to get back into position. One basic rule of defending, you do not go haywire when your facing one of the most potent attacks in football.

The German Midfield gave a masterclass of a performance on a night that mattered. If one man stood out, it had to be Toni Kroos. The young lad would have at least 25 minutes from last night’s performance in his highlight reel. A new definition to the term Masterclass. The most complete midfield performance that has ever been given by this young explosive deadball specialist. Brazil had no answer to the might of the Bavarian.

Sometimes huge scorelines paint an artificial picture of a team’s dominance on the given day. This wasn’t. It was a performance to showcase the huge gulf of class between two historically great footballing nations. If there was ever true dominance on the football field, this was it.

This isn’t the end of Brazilian football. Far from it actually. This should serve as the catalyst to greatness. Its time for them to dig deep into their reserves and unearth a few more stars. It shouldn’t be difficult considering every man, woman and child is brn with flair and skill in this crazy footballing nation. But for now they need to apologize to the fans, to the world and to the entire footballing fraternity as they have served upon us a new BLACK DAY in football.

Until next time.