Germany's 7-1 thrashing of World
Cup hosts Brazil goes into the
annals of football as a record-
breaking night on multiple levels,
but away from the pitch, the
stunning result smashed its way
through social media numbers
previously posted by Twitter.
Everybody's favourite 140-character
stream of consciousness revealed no
other individual match has received
the level of attention as the
Germans' historic semi-final win,
per Twitter Data:
Considering the match lasted
approximately 92 minutes, as
recorded by WhoScored.com , this
works out at roughly 6,341 tweets
every second during play.
This was an encounter where the
team ethic and individual quality of Germany fused together to overcome a Brazilian group whose footballing nature appeared to collectively disappear.
Usually reliable players such as
Fernandinho and Luiz Gustavo lazily
gave away possession, the Samba
Boys' full-backs Marcelo and
Maicon marauded up the pitch but
jogged back, and David Luiz's
positioning remained selfish to his
teammates throughout.
On the other side, Miroslav Klose
underlined his name in the record
books by scoring his 16th goal at
the World Cup finals, a number that
eclipses Brazilian great Ronaldo on his own turf (and while the retired striker was in the stadium
nonetheless). As such, Klose ranked as the most mentioned player in his team, reported by Twitter Data.
Germany's first-half excellence
brought Joachim Low's side four
goals in five minutes after Klose
disposed of the record after 23
minutes' play. This understandably
caused a major reaction on Twitter, where people struggled to believe
the ease of the European side's
demolition, per Twitter Matt Lynley
of Buzzfeed
The moment that prompted most
people into tweeting was the fifth
goal, which concluded a crazy five-
goal haul before the 30-minute markat the Estadio Mineirao, noted by Twitter Data
For Brazil, the loss is as dramatic
and devastating as their exit from
the tournament ever could be.
Although Luiz Felipe Scolari's team failed to produce a consistently excellent performance during their own festivities—and certainly didn't manage to recreate last year'sConfederations Cup form—nobody expected such a hammering.
A first competitive home defeat in 39 years, which also happens to be
Brazil's largest ever World Cup loss, will live long in the memory, per Phil McNulty of BBC Sport. An already thoroughly enjoyable competition
now has a game with which it will
most likely be remembered, as noted by the remarkable interest shown on Twitter.
While Scolari may struggle to
pinpoint exactly where it all went
wrong, he should advise his players to stay off Twitter in a battle against further humiliation.
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