PvtRyan
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Well... yeah a bit late. I know. But a match like this deserves a topic nontheless to discuss the results of it.
Without doubt the greatest match of the tournament so far, some (international) media even describe it as a true classic, well from a neutral standpoint. But from a Dutch standpoint, it was one huge frustration, leading with 2-0 and playing brilliant football for the first half, and still lose by 2-3 in the end.
We were in the lead for a long time into the second period with 2-1 (the Czech goal was an absolute blunder of our defense), when our coach decided to make a shitty substitution and play defensive. Our biggest mistake, we've shoulda kept Robben in and maintain our agressive play. After that, the 2-2 was quickly made, and finally the 2-3.
The crappy referee didn't help at all either, we were denied at least one penalty and got red for absolutely nothing. I'm not paranoid enough yet to call him completely biased but it often seemed like that. Any referee could have seen that Ruud van Nistelrooy got grabbed in the Czech penalty area, he practically got hugged! Furthermore we got red from an obvious schwalbe.
But all in all, the Czech's deserved to win, they played great, but luck was certainly on their side.
For us, this basically means we're out of the tournament. Our only chance is that we win from Latvia (which we will if we play like we did yesterday apart from the mistakes) and that the Czech's beat Germany or at least draw. Which they can certainly do, but they're qualified anyway, so I don't see them putting much effort on beating the Krauts. They're also putting in their B players to save strength for the quarter finals. I don't have much hope for Holland right now.
Too bad, but we should have beaten Germany in the first place, stupid draw....
Your (more objective) views?
Buh.... this feels like a big fecking hangover
Without doubt the greatest match of the tournament so far, some (international) media even describe it as a true classic, well from a neutral standpoint. But from a Dutch standpoint, it was one huge frustration, leading with 2-0 and playing brilliant football for the first half, and still lose by 2-3 in the end.
We were in the lead for a long time into the second period with 2-1 (the Czech goal was an absolute blunder of our defense), when our coach decided to make a shitty substitution and play defensive. Our biggest mistake, we've shoulda kept Robben in and maintain our agressive play. After that, the 2-2 was quickly made, and finally the 2-3.
The crappy referee didn't help at all either, we were denied at least one penalty and got red for absolutely nothing. I'm not paranoid enough yet to call him completely biased but it often seemed like that. Any referee could have seen that Ruud van Nistelrooy got grabbed in the Czech penalty area, he practically got hugged! Furthermore we got red from an obvious schwalbe.
But all in all, the Czech's deserved to win, they played great, but luck was certainly on their side.
For us, this basically means we're out of the tournament. Our only chance is that we win from Latvia (which we will if we play like we did yesterday apart from the mistakes) and that the Czech's beat Germany or at least draw. Which they can certainly do, but they're qualified anyway, so I don't see them putting much effort on beating the Krauts. They're also putting in their B players to save strength for the quarter finals. I don't have much hope for Holland right now.
Too bad, but we should have beaten Germany in the first place, stupid draw....
Your (more objective) views?
Buh.... this feels like a big fecking hangover
