i dont get why ppl say rip to melo? who will kill him?

Kuyt is awesome! Excellent workhorse!

Don't want to face Germany, the nation can't handle another loss against the Germans:p

bie, you better care if netherlands loses in their next match; i can understand if you aren't terribly frustrated losing in the finals, because argentina, spain, or germany are all very strong teams... but uruguay or ghana.... you better beat them...

months before the tourney, i had netherlands losing to germany in the finals, my prediction just might come true....

> Commander Christ wrote:

> The netherlands played a great 2nd half. Props to Kuyt and Steklenburg!!!

Still, The Netherlands will lose to Germany though..

i wouldnt say that netherlands played great.... Brazil clearly self-destructed....

> avogadro wrote:

> > Commander Christ wrote:

> The netherlands played a great 2nd half. Props to Kuyt and Steklenburg!!!

Still, The Netherlands will lose to Germany though..

i wouldnt say that netherlands played great.... Brazil clearly self-destructed....

Because of Dutch pressure and level headedness in the 2nd half.

why? the Dutch only managed to score once in that half, the Brazilians not at all, only one Brazilian got a red card

not really a blowout or collapse

I've seen Raiders games that the Raiders would have lost if the other team sat on the bench the 4th quarter

this was no blowout

and you were arguing the opposite view after the England-US 1-1 tie

they couldnt even generate the scoring chances for their goal's... they had to be handed to them...

...

Robinho gave the Brazilians the lead on Felipe Melo's brilliant low pass up the middle of the field that the striker put home with a low shot.

But the second half presented the unusual sight of the Brazilians scrambling wildly to find an equalizer.

It never came.

Instead, it was the Oranje and their fans doing the dancing as Brazil's players lay on the turf.

Brazil also lost in the quarterfinals four years ago, falling to France 1-0. Former team captain Dunga was hired to coach the team after that defeat, despite having no previous managerial experience.

"We didn't expect this," he said. "We know that any World Cup match is about 90 minutes. In the first half we were able to play better and we weren't able to maintain that rhythm in the second half."

Netherlands coach Bert van Marwijk agreed that everything changed at the break.

"We could have lost it in the first 15 minutes," he said. "At halftime, I made it very clear to the players. I told them time and time again, 'You have to play your own game. You have to have patience against Brazil.'"

Said Sneijder: "At halftime we said to each other that we had to improve things and put more pressure on the Brazilian defense."

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gs63n1NVLe0OSYXF-TJez6fYROLgD9GN6GP81

You cant argue the dutch weren't level headed because they got a few yellow cards.

The cards holland got were for professional fools, the red card brazil got was for misconduct. And Kaka should have had a direct red card as well for trying to hit Sneijder.

go germany!!!

germany v netherlands would be awesome final

*4-0 Biefstuk .

and yeah Netherlands vs Germany would be classic