My heart was broken... :( My fav Oranje army (Dutch for orange, nickname)
were eaten up by the thirsty Russian...
Netherlands were out of the Euro 2008 tournament after they lost to an in-form Russia, 3-1 after extra-time whom played very well this morning during their 1/4 finals encounter. The dutch players suddenly dropped their superb performance during the last 3 matches, they seem having difficulties in creating chances to score and their defence was very porous, many time in the match, the russians were able to make easy shooting chances inside the dutch's penalty area, if not because of the great holland goalkeeper Edwin Van der Sar, who pulled of string of good saves, the match would had be ended in normal time.
Beside England, Holland is another team i like, they have always been my favourite since 1990. Every major tournament, the squad was always looked very strong and promising, but they always fall the hurdles during the knock-out stage, the best achievement they had so far was semi-final place in World Cup 98 and Euro 2000 and 2004. This year their squad is the strongest since World Cup 98, i thought they really have a good chance to win this tournament which they did 20 years ago, but too bad, they were out-played by the Russian who lead by the brillant dutchman Guus Hiddink.
Well, not much to look foward now, the tournament left only Germany, Turkey (Zzz...zz), Russia, Spain or Italy. I hope Spain will win Euro 2008...Good Luck to them.. :)
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