Quiz! Can you name the starting line-ups from Brazil 1-7 Germany at the 2014 World Cup?

It’s the most jaw-dropping match in World Cup history. Football’s mightiest nation Brazil, on home soil, were 5-0 down after just 29 minutes of their semi-final against European heavyweights Germany.

There was just 179 seconds between the German’s second goal and their fifth, as Brazil suffered a total collective meltdown. We can’t imagine why, seeing as they came into the game emotionally overwrought, then reminded everyone – including their opponents – that their best player was absent by holding up a Neymar shirt as if he was on the verge of death.

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Alex Reid

Alex Reid is a freelance journalist and the former digital features editor at FourFourTwo. He has also written for the Guardian, talkSPORT, Boxing News and Sport magazine. Like most Londoners, he is a lifelong supporter of Aberdeen FC. He is deceptively bad in the air for a big man. He has never been a cage fighter.