Buitenlandse pers over het Nederlandse elftal #2

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Op vrijdag 2 juli 2010 18:56 schreef Croupouque het volgende:
Ik moet eerlijk bekennen dat één van de eerste dingen die ik na een overwinning van het Nederlands elftal steeds doe het volgende is: de website hln.be bezoeken, genieten van hoe die jaloerse Belgen in hun reacties op het nieuws hun kolossale minderwaardigheidscomplex etaleren en héél, héél hard lachen. Wat een jaloers en stuitend achterbaks volk is dat toch.

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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Favourites Brazil were sensationally dumped out of the World Cup by the Netherlands on Friday in the biggest shock of the tournament.

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Op vrijdag 2 juli 2010 18:56 schreef Croupouque het volgende:
Ik moet eerlijk bekennen dat één van de eerste dingen die ik na een overwinning van het Nederlands elftal steeds doe het volgende is: de website hln.be bezoeken, genieten van hoe die jaloerse Belgen in hun reacties op het nieuws hun kolossale minderwaardigheidscomplex etaleren en héél, héél hard lachen. Wat een jaloers en stuitend achterbaks volk is dat toch.

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Dutch benefit from set pieces and Brazil's astonishing capitulation

We knew the Dutch were no longer the Total Footballing purists of old, but who would have expected them to become a side reliant on set pieces? The Netherlands, did, in fairness, have other chances in the final minutes of Friday's quarterfinal, but the two goals with which it turned Friday's quarterfinal both came from set pieces, both won on the right flank.

It was always going to come down to who won the battle on that side of the field. Robinho was the dominant personality in the first half, Arjen Robben in the second, and the way the Dutch effected that transformation the key factor. Nigel De Jong's role was critical.

Robinho, operating in that awkward position to the left of Brazil's attack, was at the heart of almost everything Brazil did from an attacking point of view. Playing too deep for Gregory van der Wiel comfortably to pick him up from fullback and too far to the right for either De Jong or Mark van Bommel to cover from their central holding roles, his natural position located him precisely in an area of Dutch weakness and he took full advantage.

He gave warning after seven minutes, drifting infield, squeezing a ball through to Luis Fabiano and then running on to tap in the striker's intelligent and unselfish cross, only for Fabiano to be ruled marginally offside. Three minutes later, he struck, drifting infield as the center-back pairing of Johnny Heitinga and Andre Ooijer, who had only discovered he was playing 30 minutes before kickoff, demonstrated their unfamiliarity by opening up. Felipe Melo found him in an unfathomable amount of space, and Robinho showed his class with an instinctive first-time finish.

At that stage, the Dutch seemed washed up, struggling to prevent the supply to Robinho, and then struggling to stop him when the ball was worked to him. Juan drove over as a half-cleared corner was returned to the center, the Robinho battled through two challenges on the left before playing the ball in to Luis Fabiano who helped it on to Kaka. His curler was pawed away by Maarten Stekelenburg at full stretch.

Brazil-Netherlands play-by-play analysis

Then, on the stroke of halftime, Robinho wandered infield and, in a move that recalled Pele's famous pass to Carlos Alberto for Brazil's fourth against Italy in the 1970 final, laid the ball outside him for Maicon, overlapping from right back. His first-time shot was well-saved by Stekelenburg. It seemed then that Robinho was producing one of the indelible World Cup performances, a display that would put to shame his detractors at Real Madrid and Manchester City, and confirm once and for all the reality of his nebulous talent.

Robinho, evidently, was the man the Dutch had to stop, and they did so superbly. Van der Wiel, who had a miserable first half, pushed tighter on him, while De Jong was shifted across, not quite in a man-marking role, but with a clear brief to keep Robinho quiet. That left Van Bommel both having to counter Kaka (with some help from his center-backs) and providing cover to help Giovanni van Bronckhorst deal with Dani Alves. It was a gamble, but it worked, partly because Robinho had been so obviously the keystone of Brazil's attacking play, and partly because the Netherlands -- perhaps by neutering Robinho -- was able to have far more of the meaningful possession after half-time.

Suddenly Michel Bastos found himself having to defend against a marauding Robben, who Brazil had managed to crowd out in the first half whenever he had tried to cut inside on to his left foot. Robben's only real contribution in the first half had been to draw the foul that earned Bastos a yellow card, but the proved crucial. The fullback had been happy enough backing up Robinho, but put under pressure in the second half, and made tentative by the possibility of a second yellow card, he looked every inch the midfielder that he more usually is.

It was a foul by Bastos -- a lunge that could easily have earned that second caution, even if Robben managed to evade the challenge -- that led to the 53rd-minute free-kick from which the Netherlands equalized. It was worked to Wesley Sneijder, who had been very quiet, starved of the ball until then, and his cross was dangerous enough for Felipe Melo and Julio Cesar to get in each other's way, the midfielder glancing the ball into his own net.

As Kaka lobbed an awkwardly bouncing ball just wide, it seemed for a moment that a classic might be about to develop, but the momentum had shifted too radically. Another corner, again won down the right, Robben crossed, Dirk Kuyt flicked on and Sneijder buried the header. It was a move clearly practiced on the training ground, something as out of keeping with the stereotype of Dutch football as playing with two holding midfielders. The modern Dutch, though, the newly pragmatic Oranje, might be about to do what their fabled forebears could not, and win the World Cup.

The Netherlands was helped on its way by Melo who, correctly identifying the danger if not the best way of dealing with it, and presumably unsettled by his own goal, thrust his studs into Robben's thigh and was sent off -- as good an image of the way the winger had undone Brazil as there could be.

Brazil had a couple of half-chances, the odd cross flashed across goal, but with Robinho now subdued and Kaka having never really found his way into the competition after a poor season at Real Madrid, the creative poverty of Brazil's midfield was exposed. But for a couple of sloppy failures to capitalize on the break, the Dutch would have won more easily.

This was -- by some way -- its toughest test yet, and manager Bert van Marwijk must take credit for having had the tactical wit to turn the course of the game, and conjure two goals when only Robben of the his front four really fired -- and then only after half-time but the sense remains that the Dutch haven't quite hit top gear but are still in the semifinal.

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Op vrijdag 2 juli 2010 18:56 schreef Croupouque het volgende:
Ik moet eerlijk bekennen dat één van de eerste dingen die ik na een overwinning van het Nederlands elftal steeds doe het volgende is: de website hln.be bezoeken, genieten van hoe die jaloerse Belgen in hun reacties op het nieuws hun kolossale minderwaardigheidscomplex etaleren en héél, héél hard lachen. Wat een jaloers en stuitend achterbaks volk is dat toch.

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Op vrijdag 2 juli 2010 20:10 schreef yvonne het volgende:

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mijn god wat laten ze zich kennen
http://www.hln.be/hln/nl/(...)LOERT-BRAZILIE.dhtml

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Op vrijdag 2 juli 2010 18:56 schreef Croupouque het volgende:
Ik moet eerlijk bekennen dat één van de eerste dingen die ik na een overwinning van het Nederlands elftal steeds doe het volgende is: de website hln.be bezoeken, genieten van hoe die jaloerse Belgen in hun reacties op het nieuws hun kolossale minderwaardigheidscomplex etaleren en héél, héél hard lachen. Wat een jaloers en stuitend achterbaks volk is dat toch.

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Op vrijdag 2 juli 2010 @ 20:10 schreef yvonne het volgende:

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mijn god wat laten ze zich kennen
http://www.hln.be/hln/nl/(...)LOERT-BRAZILIE.dhtml

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Op vrijdag 2 juli 2010 20:16 schreef Supersoep het volgende:

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Je moet de laatste 10-15 paginas op 9lives.be eens lezen, ik heb nog nooit zo hard gelachen.

http://www.9lives.be/foru(...)10-deel-2-a-194.html

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Op vrijdag 2 juli 2010 20:16 schreef Supersoep het volgende:

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Je moet de laatste 10-15 paginas op 9lives.be eens lezen, ik heb nog nooit zo hard gelachen.

http://www.9lives.be/foru(...)10-deel-2-a-194.html

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Op vrijdag 2 juli 2010 20:16 schreef Supersoep het volgende:

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Je moet de laatste 10-15 paginas op 9lives.be eens lezen, ik heb nog nooit zo hard gelachen.

http://www.9lives.be/foru(...)10-deel-2-a-194.html

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Op vrijdag 2 juli 2010 20:52 schreef Croupouque het volgende:
Het verbaast me ook niets, hoor.
Ik ben opgegroeid aan de Belgische grens, en het beeld dat Nederlanders van die "sympathieke Belgen" hebben klopt allerminst. Belgen verwijten Nederlanders vaak een zekere vorm van arrogantie, maar dat is een misverstand veroorzaakt door een groot cultuurverschil. Wij zijn direct in de manier waarop we onszelf uiten, Belgen bedekken hun woorden met een mantel van valse bescheidenheid, doen op het eerste gezicht vriendelijk tegen je maar steken vervolgens een giftige dolk in je rug wanneer je je omkeert. Ze hebben echter, en dat moet je ze nageven, wél een betere keuken.

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Op vrijdag 2 juli 2010 20:45 schreef bascross het volgende:
Waar is Bramkvo? Dat is ook zo'n Belg met minderwaardigheidscomplex.

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Op vrijdag 2 juli 2010 20:55 schreef DrDentz het volgende:

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Is Nederland het nieuwe Duitsland ?