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WERE OUT!

England are not out

The positives: Carrick, midfield worked better, Ashley Cole, Rooney never stopped running, Lennon looked bright as he aways does, Hargreaves did well, kept the ball well at times, Rio was solid, Beckham's freekick, we won.

The negatives: Terry's usual blunder, defence still shakey, Robinson uncertain, Beckham's distribution, a few unnecessary yellow cards, Lampard still can't hit a barn door, Rooney looked isolated at times, tempo too slow (the heat?), not enough goal threat.

I don't know how many goals we'll score with this formation. Admitedly we could have scored more than we did but Carrick was the only creative force in midfield. England have yet to hit top gear (or even 3rd). Will they ever reach it?

A remarkably unremarkable game for once. Makes a nice change.

That was hilarious :p

What started out as a promising match, with some nice fair play in the first half - twice the Dutch kicked the ball out when someone from Portugal was down, twice they returned it later nice - totally derailed in the second half!

I believe this is a record? (4 red cards in one WC-match)

Oh well...a whole nation crying
Everyone will blame Figo's (damn fine) acting skills tomorrow

I'm curious what else this WC will bring..

gg for the dutches for not giving back the ball, tbh......

we won, the objective set by scolari is fulfilled. i dont know what team will we have to face england, after this game thou

shame.

that was fun!

un-f**king-believable !! Seems by the time second half was in full swing, everyone on the pitch had forgotten what sportsmanship is !! Record for red cards o/ just another booking away from a booking record !! Crazy stuff, should also be interesting to see Portugal's line up for the next match

Should be another tense game !

Rens2Sea wrote: that was fun!

Cool! I thought I'd be the only Dutchy laughing his ass off about this

Everybody else is probably crying :'<


ps: Too bad this match ended this way though..I like watching a good footy match; I don't even care so much about who wins
And this definitely wasn't a good footy match..there was hardly any football going on!

about "good matches"....lets be honest. the good matches are those with your team in.
portugal vs NL....i could hardly care less.
a match is good when i have a reason to be angry or happy about a goal

Absolutely mad match. What with the Dutch diving all over the place, Figo's headbutt (lucky man), Deco being sent off for time wasting etc etc. The ref completely lost control. Fun in a way.

bad bad dutchs .. how dare they make the little spoiled kid cry!

yes, extremely funny game

funny thing idd...

Portugal commited 10 fouls and got 9 yellow cards, Netherlands committed 15, got 7 yellow cards.

Pretty good fouls/card ratio for Ivanov

Blatter said on the flash interview the referee deserved an yellow card. lol

Well, a lot of the cards were deserved

The_One wrote: What with the Dutch diving all over the place

idd...pissed me off how they were so hungering for this penalty -_-

Cenotaph wrote: Blatter said on the flash interview the referee deserved an yellow card. lol

meaning the referee was poor? i personally don't think he was.. his decisions were generally good, ok maybe he lost control of the game at some point but i would rather blame the players frankly.