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:
OptaJoe focused purely on the German achievement, noting the nation's stereotypical efficiency may be acknowledged for a reason:
The moment that prompted most people into tweeting was the fifth goal, which concluded a crazy five-goal haul before the 30-minute mark at 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's Confederations 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.
//from Bleacher Report http://ift.tt/1k4tOmV
via IFTTT July 09, 2014 at 12:03AM
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