Huntelaar! 2-1 Oranje

 

What a stomach punch for El Tri.  Horrible, horrible way to go out.

Edited June 29, 201411 yr by Keyrock

 

Wow, what a last minute upset!

 

Upset ???

 

You should be celebrating

 

 

Not that kind of upset!

 

I could hear my neighbourhood explode with joy. XD

That penalty on Robben had been comming for al long time.

What a game, well done Netherlands   Did you guys notice my guess for the score was 100 % correct.

 

Now Greece vs Costa Rica

Wow! Way to go, Holland!! :D

 

And I guessed that they would win (but 4-2). So now my standing is 2 rights and 1 wrong.

Well, adios.

Predictions:

Brazil over Chile

Colombia over Uruguay

Nigeria over France

Germany crushes Algeria

Netherlands over Mexico

Costa Rica over Greece

Argentina over Switzerland

USA annihilates Belgium. Convincingly.

3-0.

The Diving Dutchman.

My friend with high blood pressure has now resolved to no longer watch any of the games because that nearly killed him.

That last penalty was legit, but why oh why does Robben always have to take it to 11 with his dives? Can't the guy fall normally to the ground?

Edited June 29, 201411 yr by Meshugger

Oh well, they'll fail in the semifinals or finals anyway.

That last penalty was legit, but why oh why does Robben always have to take it to 11 with his dives? Can't the guy fall normally to the ground?

 

I think he enjoys the falls more than actually playing the game. I can just imagine a voice inside his head going "wheeeeee!"

It wasn't a penalty, but that defender was braindead. You know he's going to dive, don't put your leg there.

Oh well, they'll fail in the semifinals or finals anyway.

 

Wow, such support and patriotism for your country. I'm overwhelmed

It wasn't a penalty, but that defender was braindead. You know he's going to dive, don't put your leg there.

Stepping on somebodys toe is a foul. Everytime and everywhere. And inside the box you get a penalty for that. It's that simple.

It wasn't a penalty, but that defender was braindead. You know he's going to dive, don't put your leg there.

That was a penalty regardless whether it was a dive or not.

Robben's theatrics probably grate more. Does look like a penalty and a stupid move. Glad it was Huntelaar to seal it, he seems less douchey than most of Holland's stars.

What got lost in all this -even before the penalty was called, was that Robben showed some crafty close quarters dribbling skills to put himself in the position to get fouled. That was absolutely world class.

Edited June 29, 201411 yr by Leferd

The penalty was correctly given. Yes, Robben went to the ground in a theatrical fashion, but he was quite clearly fouled.

 

There are quite a few people who have it in for Robben, and certainly based on his play throughout his career there is cause for displeasure at his whinging and diving. However, the last couple of years he's been a lot less prone to this sort of behaviour and he's really grown as a player. I think people should give him more credit. At the moment he is one of the best, if not the best, player in the tournament.

 

That being said... Boy, I was anxious watching this game. The orange team looked absolutely dreadful at the start. De Jong getting injured really put a dent in our defense, and the new defender that replaced Janmaat was horrid. No offense to him, but I hope this was his last game in the orange jersey. Things really turned around when the team started to play 4-3-3 and we got rid of the dead wood. It helped of course that Mexico had completely given up on trying to play football and their coach had his team go into ultra defensive mode the moment they were in the lead. Awful decision by the Mexican coach. And then Sneijder, of all people, scoring the equalizer, and Huntelaar who hadn't played even a minute previously scoring the winning goal. Love it.

Edited June 29, 201411 yr by JadedWolf

Go Costa Rica go!

Run, little Costa Ricans, run and crash into the indomitable Greek wall. 

Then 89', Charisteas scores on a corner.

I love the Dutch and Sneijder's goal was awesome.

 

Sadly football's biggest cheating piece of crap does it again and will now pretend he won them the entire thing and he is the greatest. Just like in the Champions League. If only one day he'd crick his back doing those goldfish dives. 

 

(There was a clip and the Mexicans' fault / Robben's credit for getting to that position but human beings don't clip the end of their foot and then arc into a water sports dive through the air.)

So, Dutch airline KLM apparently pissed off world famous Mexican Gael Garcia Bernal by tweeting an "adios amigos" to the Mexican team. Yeah, I don't know who that is either, but he's threatened never to fly with KLM again. And apparently a lot of other Mexicans who are also sour losers with no sense of humour have been complaining about the tweet. After which KLM quickly removed the tweet.

 

Gutless move by KLM, the Dutch queen should promptly take the royal predicate away from the airline.

 

https://twitter.com/yoyen/status/483324954323472387/photo/1

Greece thoroughly controlled the first half with their ugly brand of football.