Complex sentence: Despite an appeal, Brazil defender and captain Thiago Silva was suspended for the match due to accumulation of yellow cards, and forward Neymar was sidelined for the rest of the tournament after suffering a fractured vertebra in the quarter-final against Colombia.
Split into simpler sentences: Despite an appeal, Brazil defender and captain Thiago Silva was suspended for the match due to accumulation of yellow cards. Forward Neymar was sidelined for the rest of the tournament after suffering a fractured vertebra in the quarter-final against Colombia.