C2: Netherlands 4 - 1 France - 13/06/08

[sinoy1]

WOW....What a game.Holland are an amazing side.Ive always liked Sneijder but he is really explodin in this tourny.Really impressed with the dutch.Good luck to them.

[ReMad]

Netherlands Fans & Players with their children after the Win
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[Dragoen]

Amazing game

Netherlands now my title favourite not only because of their offensivepower but because they are acting like a team which they were missing in past tournaments.

Sneijder God of Football


Now to France

Oh my god never seen that shitty subs.
Only one sub left France was lacking creativity and who comes on? Anelka!
wtf?

Did Domenech forgot that there is a player named Nasri?
The only good players on the french side were Ribery, Evra and Henry

Evra much better than Abidal in every way.
henry weak first half but amazing second half but was left alone by most of his teammates except
Ribery just class hands down

[Trim]

Great football. And I was left totally SHOCKED!

Marco van Basten has really surprised me thus far. Didn't rate him, didn't have a good opinion on him, now I do. Fantastic subs today.

France didn't play that bad to loose 4-1. To be honest, France were on attack more than the Dutch.
Though, Holland were very efficient. Scored almost on every serious attack. Sneijder, what a goal!

Ribéry was amazing tonight, couldn't have done more.

[jec1]

No one is talking about Ruud's outstanding heel kick pass, that lead to a Robben run which resulted in a goal.

Evra should've mark his man,would've made a difference.

[Trim]

I was impressed by Boulahrouz tonight. The only player who managed to stop Franck Ribéry.

Btw, the official Man of the Match award has not been given yet. Seems like a hard decision.

[Trim]

The official Man of the Match has been announced. Guess who? Wesley Sneijder!

[sinoy1]

Its his tournament.its his time.What a player.Impressed by him.This is what football is all about.Loved the subs and loved Robben's goal.Sneijder's goal was absolutely world class.The pub here went insane.I think I nearly lost my hearing

[BlackNess]

Indeed amazing match.

Holland are the clear favorites now, deservedly, they act as a complete team in 98% of the match.

Khaled bolahrouz was outstanding on the right for the dutch, prevented a few dangerous attacks from Ribery and Henrey.

The two CBs are not bad, they have a good understanding between them.

Van Der Saar is the best Goalkeeper in the tournament so far, he is so confident, has great reflexes and classy positioning .
IMO The second best goalkeeper in the world:
1) Casillas
2) Van Der Saar
3) Buffon
4) Cech
5) (Frey) ??


The dutch midfield is so balanced with two good DMs and VDV who was the engine before he was subbed, Great passing and doesn't make any mistakes.

Robben is so fast, Unstoppable .

Sneijder is the MOTM I think, Helped in the back scored a marvelous goal in the last minute, ran alot, simply brilliant.

Ruud was yet again very important, the experience is there and what a dance on the ball when passed to Robben in the second goal ....

Van Persie was again a super sub, fast and active from the minute he came up and scored .

I don't know if it's Van Basten or the players but surely there is something spacial there, My favourite team to win after Germany now they took the spot from Portugal, the semi final will be Holland Vs Spain ... Can't wait to watch this neither of those two can defend properly, what I mean is that we are not gonna see a defensive football in any way .

Now for Africa .....

Raimond (I SOCK BALLS) Domenech .... whats the fuck wrong with this man??

1) Ribery must be on the Left and then Build your fucking pathetic National Team.
2) Evra Must start next match.
3) Your team is getting fucked and you get Anelka in ? where is Nasri and Benzema ?
4) Thuram is a fucking joke, Mexes is a must and you screw it up there.
5) You have to pick one of these two: Makalele or Tulalan .... both are Defensive minded and you can't score or at least take control of the match with these two.
6) Gouvo ?? WTF ?? you are insisting of playing wide, with wingers when you don't fucking have a proper player for this .
Do you want to play wide ?? take my advise and pick the following :
Put some one else in the RB and let Sagnol play the Right winger alongside Ribery on the left, otherwise you are fucked.
7) Malouda was catastrophic in MD1 ... You gave him another chance in MD2 ..He screwed it up again in the first goal, Why didn't you throw him Immediately and Give Ribery the Left spot ??
8) Coupet ..... He can compete with Lehmann for The Worst and The most pathetic Goalkeeper in the tournament, I am not expecting you to be like Van Der Saar but what the fuck? you shouldn't have moved an inch to stop Van peries shot, it came to his your hand and you did nothig.
The third goal ... it was from a dead angle Coupet should have stopped this.
In the Fourth goal, Sneijder owned Coupet and his poor positioning .
9) You tried Gomes once and you experienced that he is a friendly match guy, Get Benzema in FFS.


Ribery was the best in the Frech team, tried alot, made some great passes, what can you do more than getting past 3 defenders and shoot to the hands of a great keeper lid VDS?

Sagnols assist was good, actually the whole attack was good.

Class finish by Henry, he was poor in the first half but in the second he tried more.

Finally, Good to see a Professional Ref finally after the shocking decisions in the first match of the night, Herbert Fandel didn't commit a single mistake if I am not forgetting small things.

[Dragoen]

Sneijder is Man of the match.

euro2008.uefa.com - Fanzone

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Finally, Good to see a Professional Ref finally after the shocking decisions in the first match of the night, Herbert Fandel didn't commit a single mistake if I am not forgetting small things.

Yeah, Fandel is currently the best referee in the World, and of course, at the Euros. I think he will referee the final, unless Germany plays in it.

He made only one mistake yesterday that I remembered, and that was not a 'small thing', to be honest. France should have been awarded a penalty after Ooijer's handball.

[NJ10]

That was an incredible game of football. My girlfriend came in as the Dutch were celebrating to find me sat open-mouthed in front of the television, applauding a team I have no real ties with (except Kuyt).

They might not be perfect, but they are awesome.

C'mon the Dutch.