[wideawake]

Remember that Brazil's team basically admitted over and over again in the lead up to the Cup that they had one job: feed Neymar (who is overrated) the ball.

That was the strategy, apparently.

When he went down, they had no plan and no nerve, and probably more psychological pressure than any team has ever had.

They were not mentally tough and came apart.

A thrown game ends 3-1 or 2-0, not 7-1.

[goldstategop]

If your highest scorer gets nearly paralyzed, that’s a huge blow. I don’t think they recovered from it and the team was just a shell.

That was picked apart in dramatic fashion by the Germans.

[dfwgator]

But Brazil looked like an amateur club for those six minutes, it really was hard to believe...Germany took advantage, to their credit, but that was more about Brazil completely falling apart than the Germans playing brilliantly.