Number Cruncher: All the stats from Brazil's woeful World Cup

Number Cruncher: All the stats from Brazil's woeful World Cup

Brazil playmaker Oscar picked up the first yellow card for simulation in World Cup 2014.

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Number Cruncher: All the stats from Brazil's woeful World Cup

Netherlands beat Brazil 3-0 in the third/fourth place playoff match in Brasilia on Saturday. Here are the top stats from the match:

- Netherlands leave the World Cup with a victory at the end for the first time. All nine previous attempts at that had ended in defeat.

- Netherlands scored as many goals at the 2014 World Cup (15) as they had in the previous 2 World Cups combined.

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- Brazil has not lost two consecutive games while conceding 10+ goals in 80 years (1-3 vs. #ESP and 4-8 vs. Yugoslavia in 1934).

- Brazil 0-3 Netherlands: Shots: 11-8, Pass completion: 86%-83%, Crosses: 21-11, Take-ons: 24-20.

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- Brazil finish with a negative goal differential for the third time in World Cup history (1966, 1934).

- Belgium (15) in 1986 were the last team to concede 14 or more goal in a World Cup before Brazil (14). The only other teams to do concede 12 or more in history are North Korea and Saudi Arabia.

- Brazil lost consecutive matches for the first time since June 2012, a run of 37 games.

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- Eight of the last nine third place matches at the World Cup have seen both teams score at least once (exception: Bulgaria in 1994 and Brazil in 2014).

- Jasper Cillesen is the first goalkeeper to be subbed off two times in the history of the World Cup. Netherlands are the second team at the 2014 World Cup to use all three goalkeepers along with Portugal.

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- Before this World Cup Brazil had lost once by a then team record three-goal margin. Now twice in four days

- Brazil and Holland have combined for 3 extra time matches at this WC, but the WC third place match needed extra time only once (1986).

- Holland have scored all 10 of their penalties in regulation (excluding penalty shootouts) at the World Cup.

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- Netherlands set a World Cup record by becoming the first team to field 23 players in a single World Cup.

- Brazil equals Costa Rica for most yellow cards (12) at 2014 World Cup. Their captain, Thiago Silva, first to receive his third.

- Brazil playmaker Oscar picked up the first yellow card for simulation in World Cup 2014.

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- Robin van Persie has now scored 47 goals in 91 appearances for the Netherlands in all competitions. He also got his 6th-career World Cup goal, but only his 1st outside the group stage.

- RVP’s goal was the 100th goal Brazil conceded at the World Cup and only one was faster. Denmark’s Martin Jørgensen struck 2nd minute on 3 Jul 1998.

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- Daley Blind scored his first goal for club or country since February 2014.

- Willian completed 96% of the 26 passes he attempted in the first half.

- Netherlands were 2-0 at halftime… no team in World Cup history has ever lost after leading by at least 2 goals at halftime.

- This is the first time Brazil allowed multiple goals in back-to-back WC matches since 1970 (1940 — 0-3 v ARG in Feb 40 and 3-4 v Uruguay in March of the same year).

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- They have conceded 9 of their 14 goals in this World Cup in the first 30 minutes.

- All seven of Klaas-Jan Huntelaar’s WC apps have been as a sub. No player of any nation has made more without starting a game.

Stats courtesy Squawka, Opta, ESPN, InfoStrada and WhoScored

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