I still haven't seen Gio's goal from last night so I'll jump to that, but I heard Holland weren't that good last night and may be a bit fortunate to be in the final. I certainly think they haven't been playing their best football and if they wanna beat eaither Germany or Spain they will have to.
Holland has shed the beautiful football in exchange of brutal efficiency. You don't win 5 games by a single goal in a row with simply luck, they've learned of their past mistakes, and came to win this cup, not to entertain the fans. In that respect, I think that right now they ARE playing their best football. It's not pretty, not really entertaining (besides for the drama) and definitely not looking like how the dutch team used to play, but at the very least, it got them here. And most of us would love for our teams to be at the same place right now
Whoo, the whole country went crazy. But what a bloody annoying referee. At the end of the first half the Netherlands were attacking and halfway through the ref blew his whistle. And at the end he happily let the game go on for two extra minutes WTF. Not to mention his undeniable natural talent for getting in the way -_-
The two extra minutes is almost the time Van Bommel took to recover after the wind had gently pushed him down or something >.> I'll agree that the timing he chose to end the first half with made me wtf a little, though
Seriously, the Dutch get no love from the referees this WC.
I'm guessing you reap what you sow. Anything Van Bommel does looks like it could be a foul and anything Robben gets done to him as well. Who'd want to be the referee in a game with those two, honestly...
