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Almost before a Colombians had time to pull breath, Silva had bundled in a idea off his thigh/shin/groin area in a initial half and afterwards David Luiz combined to a wretchedness in a second, rising a giveaway flog that seemed to stop curling and float, bubblelike, high and past ’keeper David Ospina’s slow-to-react lunge.
The compare itself run-down into an impossibly mean-spirited and scrappy charade, Spanish arbitrate Carlos Velasco Carballo fast losing control. A whopping 54 fouls were indeed whistled down, 31 opposite a home side, a slew some-more missed.
And a play-acting was apropos shameful. Yes, even by football standards.
“You emanate attrition since of a competitiveness and it’s not easy to arbitrate such a game,’’ shielded Colombia manager Jose Pekerman. “The tragedy was really high and Brazil indispensable a victory.
“We aspired to do a same in each play — there was a lot of intensity. That interrupted a game. We mislaid a fluidity of a diversion since of this.’’
Referee Carballo missed a lot and positively could have shown Silva a red label for knocking into Ospina as he prepared to launch a round downfield. He positively should’ve red-carded Brazilian ’keeper Julio Cesar for writing down Carlos Bacca during a knees in a 80th notation as a Colombian was usually about to cruise past him and score.
James Rodriguez did conduct to modify a indirect chastisement (at slightest Velasquez got that right), though a Selecao used a advantage of a non-red label call to reason out a rest of a way.
From Rio to Recife, Cuiaba to Sao Paulo, Brazilians were prepared to celebration audacious as usually they know how Friday night.
They wanted zero reduction than feat and that they got.
But a euphoria was blunted; a Carnavale atmosphere tempered.
Victory, as it mostly does, has come during a terrible cost.