There is perhaps no greater pressure than playing a World Cup at home, especially if you are Brazil. The shadow of their 1950 Maracanazo defeat to Uruguay haunted Brazilian football and the national side went into the 2014 World Cup with the demand and expectation they would put right what had gone wrong 64 years earlier.
And by extension, that too put huge pressure on a Germany side hoping to stun the hosts in the World Cup semi-final of 2014. Just over a decade previously, Germany had suffered their own tragedy as they were dumped out of Euro 2000 in the group stage, picking up just one point in three matches.