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WOW.
Goal. Of. The. Tournament. ^:)^
And they do it. First ever quarter cup final for Colombia and so well deserved. :)
Colombia vs. Brazil - really looking forward to that one!!
Yeah, baby - finally got to watch some highlights. The "beautiful game" for sure, most aptly named. Poetry in motion. :-bd
I don't think he deserved a red card for that, his intention was to kick the ball, not the goalkeeper. However, he should have been more careful, so a yellow card was appropriate. Here it is:
http://seen.co/event/social-media-from-brazil-vs-chile-brazil-2014-302/play/vine/MFMqlttTjza
That song is brilliant, a true classic. We are getting some random no-name samba here. This is from the movie Brazil:
IMO, Van Persie wins.
Uruguay bit the dust, how appropriate.
Anyone know why that one Dutch player was substituted for 10 minutes in?
I'm also having a really hard time understanding the announcer's heavy accents, so I don't know if they explained it.
...And Mexico just scored as I was typing that...
A very nice one by Giovani dos Santos.
Just had an epiphany. If Mexico holds off the Dutch and Costa Rica beats Greece later today. Two CONCACAF teams will play each other in the quarter-finals. This will assure that a CONCACAF team makes it to the semi-finals.
Based upon the play so far I am curious who will survive this game. Once more a great 2nd half.
And penalties with Ochoa does seem to be not the smartest idea.
2-1
I did not expect this at all, but the 2nd half the Dutch decided to play football and showed that they can really play.
@Kerim- was that another teeth-themed pun, or a happy coincidence? :P
But after all Holland didn't deserve to lose this. And Mexico became too defensive in the second half, playing too deep for too long. You usually get punished for that in football... I hope people are starting to realize this Dutch team is not as Incredible as some make them out to be. Although Robben is an attack by himself... and a diver...
Bummed that Mexico lost considering how well they've played after the CONCACAF qualifiers. This will leave a bad taste in their mouths for quite some time.
Robben gets plenty of sticky in the about his diving, here in the UK.
@Jobo when they floored him in the 1st half with two defenders who played Robben instead of the ball it was a bloody clear penalty.
And when you try to stop Robben in the penalty box then you have got to be bloody carefull and they were not. Not only Robben would go down but all players so stop being boring and acknowledge that Spain was overrated this tournament and perhaps the Dutch are actually better than expected. I did not expect them to win ALL three group games and even the next round against Mexico. And they did.
When they stopped playing defensive I saw a very powerful Dutch team, they are not brilliant but they have skills that belongs in the quarter finale.
Indeed the coach took one of his strikers was taken off in exchange for a defender two minutes after scoring 0-1, which is at any time is stupid choice, but against the Dutch that did have a very impressive amount of strikers in reserve it is the stupidest choice you can make as they will exchange defenders for strikers and thus opening the back for two strikers.
I never said they didn't deserve to reach the quarter finals did I? The ones I critisized was Mexico for their negative approach in the second half, and Robben for his diving. (After all he didn't dive on merely one occation but several...)
"Acknowledge that Spain was overrated this tournament"
Well, that's been my point from day one. Holland scored five against Spain because Spain were terrible, not because "The Netherlands were incredible" which seems to be the general opinion amongst pundits and fans. I have no problem accepting that Holland are performing much better than I expected. In fact I have already praised Van Gaal for making the most out of the players at his disposal.
This Holland team impresses with their tactical awareness, team spirit... and well... Robben. And they have been incredibly effective. That might be enough to win them the tournament. But it's not necessarily a "triumph for football" as so many claim it to be. I'm sorry if I've been offending you in the process of trying to counter the Holland hysteria. In fact I'm under the impression we have mostly agreed so far in our view of the Dutch team, the only real difference being I don't support them like you.
That said I found Chili very impressive and they came to 2-0 against Spain were Orange did do a 5-1, which showed some incredible moments available from the Lowlands.
Tactical there is not much you can comment on the Dutch approach.
Diving is an international past time in this tournament and Robben playing the way he does defenders should be more than aware and not give him the chance. Having seen the disputed action I can only say that the defender did something stupid and Robben went with it.
As a player Robben is most dangerous player so far at this tournament, there are goal scorers but not many players that are so decisive in a game.,
Perhaps not a triumph for football but about bloody time we get that title as well, and if we do it with this team, the rest of the world knows that a good coach is important too.
And from an historical perspective Holland deserve a World Cup. I don't think they will win it this year either, but you never know. Worse teams have won the tournament before.
Was that a little jibe there?