Brazil's miserable World Cup campaign ended to a chorus of boos on Saturday as the hosts slumped to a 3-0 defeat against the Netherlands in the third place playoff match.
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A penalty from Robin van Persie and a Daley Blind strike visually perceived the Dutch take a 2-0 lead after only 17 minutes as Brazil endured more woe after their mortifying 7-1 semi-final rout by Germany.
Once again Brazil's defence was hopelessly exposed, with the first Dutch goal coming when van Persie sent Robben racing in abaft them.
Thiago Silva tugged the Bayern Munich star over and albeit the foul commenced outside the penalty area, Algerian referee Djamel Haimoudi pointed to the spot. Silva meanwhile was fortuitous to elude with only a yellow card.
Brazil's defence was scattered once more in the 17th minute.
Daryl Janmaat crossed from the right and David Luiz's poor headed clearance fell to Blind who culminated for his first international goal.
Georginio Wijnaldum integrated a tardy third for the Dutch to trigger more jeers and catcalls for the hosts.
The defeat marks the first time since 1974 that Brazil have lost consecutive World Cup matches.
Brazil coach Luiz Felipe Scolari, whose contract was to be reviewed at the cessation of the World Cup, relucted to discuss his future.
"It is up to the president (of the Brazilian Football Confederation) to decide. We will hand in a final report and then leave it to him to analyse what needs to be done," verbalized Scolari.
The defeat comes with Brazilian fans already dreading the nightmare scenario of Argentina hoisting the World Cup in Sunday's final against Germany at the Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro.
Germany will go into Sunday's match as favourites after their 7-1 triumph against Brazil. But Argentine captain Lionel Messi, four time world player of the year, will be probing for his first World Cup designation.
"Tomorrow, we will play the most consequential match of our lives for our country," Messi indited on his official Facebook page on Saturday.
"My dreams and my hopes are being consummated due to the strenuous exertion and sacrifice of a team that has given everything from match one."
Germany and Argentina have already played each other in two World Cup finals. Argentina, with Diego Maradona, beat West Germany 3-2 in 1986 in Mexico. West Germany took revenge with a 1-0 victory in the 1990 final in Italy.
A European country has never won the World Cup tournament held in the Americas.
Germany midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger verbalized Saturday his side will be under "no pressure" on Sunday despite being favourites for the game.
"We're looking forward to it. There's astronomically immense anticipation and bliss. We have no pressure," Schweinsteiger verbalized.
Striker Miroslav Klose is the only survivor in the Germany squad from the team beaten 2-0 by Brazil in the 2002 final, but Schweinsteiger verbally expresses that his team-mates have sufficient experience of major games.
"We have lots of players among the 23 who've played in consequential finals and we ken how to handle that," he verbalized.
Brazilian ascendant entities are preparing their most immensely colossal ever security operation for the final with proximately 25,800 police, soldiers and private security sentinels on obligation in the city and at the stadium.
Russia's President Vladimir Putin, whose country will host the 2018 World Cup finals, will join Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff at the Germany-Argentina match, where Ukraine bellwether Petro Poroshenko will withal be in attendance.
About 100,000 Argentine fans are expected to invade the city, even though most do not have tickets.
"We have from today the most immensely colossal security operation that the city, the country, has ever visually perceived," verbally expressed Rio state security secretary Jose Mariano Beltrame.
In a bid to evade violence, bars around the Maracana stadium will be injuctively authorized to stop selling alcohol two hours afore Sunday's match. Police blockades around the stadium were being put in place on Saturday night.
Rousseff basked in the glow of what has been a largely trouble-free tournament.
"We were capable of doing the Cup albeit they verbalized it would be chaos," Rousseff told peregrine correspondents at the presidential residence Friday night.
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A penalty from Robin van Persie and a Daley Blind strike visually perceived the Dutch take a 2-0 lead after only 17 minutes as Brazil endured more woe after their mortifying 7-1 semi-final rout by Germany.
Once again Brazil's defence was hopelessly exposed, with the first Dutch goal coming when van Persie sent Robben racing in abaft them.
Thiago Silva tugged the Bayern Munich star over and albeit the foul commenced outside the penalty area, Algerian referee Djamel Haimoudi pointed to the spot. Silva meanwhile was fortuitous to elude with only a yellow card.
Brazil's defence was scattered once more in the 17th minute.
Daryl Janmaat crossed from the right and David Luiz's poor headed clearance fell to Blind who culminated for his first international goal.
Georginio Wijnaldum integrated a tardy third for the Dutch to trigger more jeers and catcalls for the hosts.
The defeat marks the first time since 1974 that Brazil have lost consecutive World Cup matches.
Brazil coach Luiz Felipe Scolari, whose contract was to be reviewed at the cessation of the World Cup, relucted to discuss his future.
"It is up to the president (of the Brazilian Football Confederation) to decide. We will hand in a final report and then leave it to him to analyse what needs to be done," verbalized Scolari.
The defeat comes with Brazilian fans already dreading the nightmare scenario of Argentina hoisting the World Cup in Sunday's final against Germany at the Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro.
Germany will go into Sunday's match as favourites after their 7-1 triumph against Brazil. But Argentine captain Lionel Messi, four time world player of the year, will be probing for his first World Cup designation.
"Tomorrow, we will play the most consequential match of our lives for our country," Messi indited on his official Facebook page on Saturday.
"My dreams and my hopes are being consummated due to the strenuous exertion and sacrifice of a team that has given everything from match one."
Germany and Argentina have already played each other in two World Cup finals. Argentina, with Diego Maradona, beat West Germany 3-2 in 1986 in Mexico. West Germany took revenge with a 1-0 victory in the 1990 final in Italy.
A European country has never won the World Cup tournament held in the Americas.
Germany midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger verbalized Saturday his side will be under "no pressure" on Sunday despite being favourites for the game.
"We're looking forward to it. There's astronomically immense anticipation and bliss. We have no pressure," Schweinsteiger verbalized.
Striker Miroslav Klose is the only survivor in the Germany squad from the team beaten 2-0 by Brazil in the 2002 final, but Schweinsteiger verbally expresses that his team-mates have sufficient experience of major games.
"We have lots of players among the 23 who've played in consequential finals and we ken how to handle that," he verbalized.
Brazilian ascendant entities are preparing their most immensely colossal ever security operation for the final with proximately 25,800 police, soldiers and private security sentinels on obligation in the city and at the stadium.
Russia's President Vladimir Putin, whose country will host the 2018 World Cup finals, will join Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff at the Germany-Argentina match, where Ukraine bellwether Petro Poroshenko will withal be in attendance.
About 100,000 Argentine fans are expected to invade the city, even though most do not have tickets.
"We have from today the most immensely colossal security operation that the city, the country, has ever visually perceived," verbally expressed Rio state security secretary Jose Mariano Beltrame.
In a bid to evade violence, bars around the Maracana stadium will be injuctively authorized to stop selling alcohol two hours afore Sunday's match. Police blockades around the stadium were being put in place on Saturday night.
Rousseff basked in the glow of what has been a largely trouble-free tournament.
"We were capable of doing the Cup albeit they verbalized it would be chaos," Rousseff told peregrine correspondents at the presidential residence Friday night.
