July 11 – It wasn’t meant to be like this. The World Cup was planned to be a triumphal march through Brazil for the Seleção, ending at the Maracana for the grand finale at the grandest of football venues. Instead they meet Holland in Brasilia for the third placed play off Saturday. Wake, party or just time for Brazil to wake up?
Brazil v Netherlands
In World Cups, each side has beaten the other twice (one of which was a penalty shoot-out win for Brazil).
The Netherlands scored 12 goals in their first 4 games at this World Cup but failed to score in the quarter- or semi-final, despite both matches going to extra-time.
This will be Brazil’s fourth appearance in the third place game (W2 L1) and the Netherland’s second (L1).
In his current spell as Brazil manager Scolari has a win percentage of 67.86% – in his previous spell (2001-02) it was 75%.
In his current spell as Netherlands manager van Gaal has a win percentage of 59.26% – in his previous spell (2000-02) it was 53.33%.
Brazil’s last game on a 12th July was against France in the 1998 final (they lost 3-0).
Head to Head games
02/05/63 Netherlands v Brazil 1-0 (International)
03/07/74 Brazil v Netherlands 0-2 (World Cup)
20/12/89 Netherlands v Brazil 0-1 (International)
09/07/94 Brazil v Netherlands 3-2 (World Cup)
31/08/96 Netherlands v Brazil 2-2 (International)
07/07/98 Brazil v Netherlands 1-1 (4-2) (World Cup)
05/06/99 Brazil v Netherlands 2-2 (International)
08/06/99 Brazil v Netherlands 3-1 (International)
09/10/99 Netherlands v Brazil 2-2 (International)
02/07/10 Netherlands v Brazil 2-1 (World Cup)
04/06/11 Brazil v Netherlands 0-0 (International)
Brazil: W4 – Netherlands: W3 – D:4
FIFA Ranking (June 5th 2014)
Brazil: Rank: 3 Points: 1242
Netherlands: Rank: 15 Points: 981
World Cup 2014
Brazil
First in Group A with 7 points (P3 W2 D1 GF7 GA2)
Round of 16: Brazil 1 – 1 (3 – 2 pens) Chile
Quarter-final: Brazil 2 – 1 Colombia
Semi-final: Brazil 1 – 7 Germany
Netherlands
First in Group B with 9 points (P3 W3 GF10 GA3)
Round of 16: Netherlands 2 – 1 Mexico
Quarter-final: Netherlands 0 – 0 (4 – 3 pens) Costa Rica
Semi-final: Netherlands 0 – 0 (2 – 4 pens) Argentina
Last 10 Matches
Brazil: WWWWWDWWWL
20/11/13 Brazil 2 – 1 Chile (International)
05/03/14 South Africa 0 – 5 Brazil (International)
03/06/14 Brazil 4 – 0 Panama (International)
06/06/14 Brazil 1 – 0 Serbia (International)
12/06/14 Brazil 3 – 1 Croatia (World Cup)
17/06/14 Brazil 0 – 0 Mexico (World Cup)
23/06/14 Cameroon 1 – 4 Brazil (World Cup)
28/06/14 Brazil 1 – 1 Chile (World Cup)
04/07/14 Brazil 2 – 1 Colombia (World Cup)
08/07/14 Brazil 1 – 7 Germany (World Cup)
Goals for: 23 Goals against: 12
Netherlands: LDWWWWWWWL
05/03/14 France 2 – 0 Netherlands (International)
17/05/14 Netherlands 1 – 1 Ecuador (International)
31/05/14 Netherlands 1 – 0 Ghana (International)
04/06/14 Netherlands 2 – 0 Wales (International)
13/06/14 Spain 1 – 5 Netherlands (World Cup)
18/06/14 Australia 2 – 3 Netherlands (World Cup)
23/06/14 Netherlands 2 – 0 Chile (World Cup)
29/06/14 Netherlands 2 – 1 Mexico (World Cup)
05/07/14 Netherlands 0 – 0 (4 – 3 pens) Costa Rica (World Cup)
09/07/14 Netherlands 0 – 0 (2 – 4 pens) Argentina (World Cup)
Goals for: 16 Goals against: 7