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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Luca" data-source="post: 558581" data-attributes="member: 9032">Well, a Dutchy here. It seems like some of you guys don't like us anymore. I'm glad we won, but honestly we were very very lucky to win.The first 60 minutes of the Dutch team were rubbish. It might have been the worst 60 minutes of the Dutch national team ever. I don't think we actually had a single shot on target. The Mexicans on the other hand created several good opportunities. After thos 60 minutes it looked more like the Mexicans lost the game, than that we won it. The Mexicans switched to very defensive tactics after their goal. Which is very stupid when your goalkeeper sucks big time at crosses. First, their was the warning shot from de Vrij from 4 yards (how on earth can a player shoot a corner from 4 yards, the goalkeeper should catch at least anything in the 6 yard box, or at least punch it.) Well, the Mexicans stayed in their all-out-defence allowing some Dutch crosses en corners. Vlaar botched a 6 yard header (again, huge mistake by Ochoa), before Huntelaar headed back to Sneijder, who easily scored. In my opinion bad Mexican tactics and bad goalkeeping were to blame for this goal. Well and than there is the "controversial" game winning penalty call. I always tough to judge when Robben falls when it is a penalty or not since he is a certified diver, but he also gets fouled a lot. At first I though the was a classic Robben dive. I watched the call from all angles (you have apps/sites for that). In the end I do think that in this case this was the right call. Marquez touched Robben enough to trip him and take him down (and yes, the theatre of Robben was unnecessary and he should stop that, but it's about the legs not about the upper body, his leg got tripped). In a way this call is similar to the call in the Greece-Ivory Coast game, that also looked like a dive first, but turned out to be right call after reviewing it from different angles. By the way, this was a stupid way of defending from Marquez from that angle. Just keep the guy in front of you, he can't do anything.</blockquote>

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