Tuesday night, in the 2014 World Cup semifinal, Brazil out-shot Germany 18 to 14 ... After all, wouldn't you expect a 7-1 match of this magnitude to be an outlier in the first place?

And on Wednesday, the day after Germany's shocking 7-1 World Cup semifinal defeat of Brazil, newspapers in Brazil and Germany painted two very different pictures, as expected. In Germany ...

Brazil have endured so many low ebbs over the past 15 years that it can be hard to remember them all. The historically embarrassing 7-1 defeat to Germany ... the pattern of a match.