Holland in Quarter Final

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Holland Group C​

• Holland vs Italy 3 - 0
• Holland vs France 4 - 1
• Holland vs Romania 2 - 0

Quarter Finals​

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  Holland vs Russia (Due on the 21/06/08)

( List to be Update after each match)​

Dutch win all three games.

 

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Highlights of Match,,,,

Netherlands vs France 4-1: Highlights - Euro 2008 | FootieDB.com

 

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Neo AAAH we better win............

 

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Dutch were awsome, very fast a new game altogether. It seems every ball goes to the net, dosn't matter from where they hit the ball.
there's no doubt about their first position.

 

[Neo]

Neo AAAH we better win............

The match was awesome, I just returned from celebration at Leidseplein in Amsterdam...man we beat European Champion and World Champion in a row, totally humiliated them by 3-0 and 4-1!

I kind of feel sorry for Henry Thierry, Imho he came back very strong in the second half, rest of the French team played well aswell but we were simply better.

We'll finish on top meaning that either Spain or Russia will be next opponent, I'm hoping for Russia because Spain is considered to be an underdog, dangerous!

 

[Neo]

Germany, Italy, France....all could mis the second round...lol.

Nederland, ohh Nederland
Jij bent de kampioen
Wij houden van Oranje
Met zijn pracht en zijn roem!

 

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I hope this doesn't go down for us, I would love to see Holland lift the Cup, I am sure the Dutch are preparing hard for the next match Against Romania.

What do you think of the new Dutch footbal shirts, they look awesome, I remember the world cup ones which got really famous in UK, these ones take the old hold style, look amazing.

We zijn er bijna maar nog niet helemaal....

 

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I hope this doesn't go down for us, I would love to see Holland lift the Cup, I am sure the Dutch are preparing hard for the next match Against Romania.

Morale is high and I'm sure we'll beat Romania who's actually a minor in soccer.
Top players might be sidelined for next match since we've already qualified
and don't wanna rist yellow cards or blessures. Good opportunity to give new guys a chance to play aswell.

What do you think of the new Dutch footbal shirts, they look awesome, I remember the world cup ones which got really famous in UK, these ones take the old hold style, look amazing.

Love the new tenue, much better than all the blue the losers wear.

We zijn er bijna maar nog niet helemaal....

Maar we komen we wel, Hup Holland Hup!

 

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Romania controls destiny against Netherlands
Berne, Switzerland (Sports Network) - Romania just needs one win to escape the Euro 2008 "Group of Death" and eliminate Italy and France in the process.

The only problem: The Netherlands.

Romania, which has tied Italy and France in its first two matches, must defeat the Netherlands on Tuesday to wrap up a berth in the quarterfinals. If Romania losses or ties the Dutch, it could still advance on a tiebreaker.

But for Romania, a victory is the plan. And why not?

Romania won Group G in qualifying, finishing ahead of the Netherlands - easily the most impressive team so far in the finals with a 3-0 win over Italy and a 4-1 win over France to its credit.

Romania tied the Netherlands 0-0 in March 2006 in the teams' first match in qualifying and won the second meeting 1-0 in October of last year.

It's possible the Netherlands is out for revenge but, with nothing to play for, it's also possible the Dutch will rest players in preparation for the quarterfinals.

Even if the Netherlands rest a few key players, it will still field a very good team. But Romania has already proven it can beat the Dutch at full strength.

"We did well against Holland in the qualifiers, so why can't we do it again?" Romania midfielder Razvan Cocis said. "The aim was always to get into the last eight and we are still on course."

Romania will have to adjust to the losses of two key players, midfielder Mirel Radoi and defender Dorin Goian. Radoi fractured a bone just below his left eye against Italy and Goian received his second yellow card.

Striker Ciprian Marica thinks Romania has enough depth to overcome the losses.

"It's normal to get injuries and suspensions as you go along in tournaments and we have the players to come in and play as well as, if not better than, the ones we are without," Marica said.

Romania's only other concern is getting Adrian Mutu focused on the Netherlands. He scored in the 1-1 draw with Italy, but missed a penalty kick in the final 10 minutes that would have given Romania a win.

"Yes, of course it was disappointing not to win but it was a great game ... and a draw was probably a fair result," Romania defender Razvan *** told UEFA.com. "Adrian is disappointed to have missed the penalty but you have to remember he scored the first goal for us as well and played a really excellent game."

Considering Romania has taken a point from both France and Italy, it's hard to be too disappointed, Cocis said.

"We can be really proud of the way we played," Cocis said. "We can feel pleased because we have now taken two points from the teams that played in the last World Cup final."

The Netherlands is the highest-scoring team in the tournament with seven goals in two games. The fact those seven goals are against Italy and France is even more impressive.

Wesley Sneijder is the lone Dutch player with more than one goal - he has two - with five other players with one goal each.

Although the Romania game doesn't mean much to the Dutch, Dirk Kuyt hinted the team needs to be careful about slowing their momentum after two huge wins.

"We feel it's possible for us to achieve something beautiful here," Kuyt said. "We have delivered two excellent performances, but we must now prepare for the next step. ... but we should not look too far ahead yet."

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Hmmm right will see.

 

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Dutch all clear to win, major defeat headed toward Romania.

 

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italy are in.

and i was very impressed with the way the russians thrashed the swedes.

 

[Neo]

and i was very impressed with the way the russians thrashed the swedes.

Credit once again goes to Dutch Coach, Guus Hiddink. He's the guy who led South Korea to the World Cup Quarter Finals in in Seoul.

 

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Credit once again goes to Dutch Coach, Guus Hiddink. He's the guy who led South Korea to the World Cup Quarter Finals in in Seoul.

Hiddink plots Dutch downfall

Guus Hiddink will attempt to mastermind the downfall of his native Netherlands when Russia take on the high-flying Group C winners in Basel in the third UEFA EURO 2008™ quarter-final.

• Hiddink was in charge of the Netherlands team that reached the semi-finals of the 1998 FIFA World Cup in France but will put sentiment to one side as he looks to lead Russia to their first semi-final since the break-up of the USSR.

• The contest also stirs memories of Marco van Basten's famous volleyed strike in the Netherland's 2-0 victory against the Soviet Union in the 1988 UEFA European Championship final. That triumph completed a Dutch double that summer following the European Champion Clubs' Cup success of a PSV Eindhoven side coached by Hiddink.

• Dutch fans will have gained confidence that it could be their year again after their team advanced with three wins and the best goal statistics of the group stage, having scored nine and conceded one. However, Oranje supporters will not want to dwell on the fact no team since France in 1984 has won all their group games and gone on to lift the trophy.

• They opened with a 3-0 victory against Italy – Ruud van Nistelrooy (26), Wesley Sneijder (31) and Giovanni van Bronckhorst (79) the scorers – and then achieved an equally emphatic success against France, winning 4-1 on a night Dirk Kuyt (9), Robin van Persie (59), Arjen Robben (72) and Sneijder (90+2) all found the net. Having already secured first place in the toughest-looking section, Van Basten's men underlined their credentials by defeating Romania 2-0 through Klaas Jan Huntelaar (54) and Van Persie (87).

• In contrast Russia started badly with a 4-1 loss to Spain. David Villa (29, 44, 75) struck a hat-trick and Cesc Fàbregas added a fourth in added time, with Roman Pavlyuchenko's 86th-minute reply scant consolation. Russia revived their hopes with a 1-0 victory against Greece – Konstantin Zyryanov (33) the scorer – and then beat Sweden 2-0 through goals from Pavlyuchenko (24) and Andrei Arshavin (50) to claim second place in Group D.

• This is the first time that Russia have negotiated the group stage of a major tournament – at the fifth attempt – but continues Hiddink's record of never having fallen at the first hurdle following earlier success with the Netherlands, Korea Republic and Australia.

• Russia have not reached the quarter-finals since the collapse of the Soviet Union. As part of the USSR, they reached the last eight or better of the 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972 and 1976 competitions.

• The Netherlands are in the quarter-finals for the fourth successive UEFA European Championship. They lost to France at EURO '96™ but overcame Yugoslavia at UEFA EURO 2000™ and Sweden in UEFA EURO 2004™ – although they lost in the semi-finals on each occasion.

• The Netherlands and Russia have met only once before, in a friendly in Amsterdam last year. The Dutch were 4-1 winners with goals from Ryan Babel (68), Sneijder (71), Joris Mathijsen (80) and Rafael van der Vaart (89 pen) while Vladimir Bystrov (77) mustered Russia's sole reply.

• The teams for that match on 7 February 2007 were:
Netherlands: Maarten Stekelenburg, Kew Jaliens, Joris Mathijsen, Wilfred Bouma, Giovanni van Bronckhorst, Denny Landzaat (Wesley Sneijder 46), Nigel de Jong (David Mendes da Silva 63), Clarence Seedorf (Tim de Cler 78), Rafael van der Vaart, Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink (Klaas Jan Huntelaar 78), Dirk Kuyt (Ryan Babel 46).
Russia: Igor Akinfeev, Aleksandr Anyukov, Denis Kolodin, Aleksei Berezutski (Vasili Berezutski 70), Yuri Zhirkov, Vladimir Bystrov, Igor Semshov, Diniyar Bilyaletdinov (Dmitri Sychev 45), Ivan Saenko, Yegor Titov (Evgeni Aldonin 58), Andrei Arshavin (Roman Pavlyuchenko 72).

• Hiddink had previously coached Australia in a friendly match against the Netherlands in Rotterdam in June 2006 with Tim Cahill's equaliser (54) earning the Socceroos a draw following Van Nistelrooy's tenth-minute opener.

• Hiddink was Netherlands coach between 1994 and 1998 and oversaw their EURO '96™ campaign, where they reached the quarter-finals before losing on penalties to France. Two summers later, Hiddink's Oranje went a step further, reaching the last four of the World Cup before suffering further shoot-out heartache against Brazil.

• The most famous goal of Netherlands coach Van Basten's career was his 54th-minute strike against the USSR that secured the Henri Delaunay trophy 20 years ago. Following Ruud Gullit's first-half header, Van Basten converted a cross from an improbable angle as Rinus Michels' team were crowned European champions on 25 June 1988.

• Van Basten was subsequently in the Netherlands team held 0-0 by the CIS – or Commonwealth of Independent States, of which Russia was a part – in the first round of EURO '92.

• Netherlands midfielder Van der Vaart scored past Russia goalkeeper Igor Akinfeev in a 3-2 victory for his German club Hamburger SV over PFC CSKA Moskva in the 2006/07 UEFA Champions League group stage. Dutch defender Mathijsen was also in Hamburg's side that night while Russia midfielder Yuri Zhirkov found the net for CSKA.

• Russian internationals Arshavin, Zyryanov and Aleksandr Anyukov were in the FC Zenit St. Petersburg team that drew 1-1 with Dutch side AZ Alkmaar in the 2007/08 UEFA Cup group stage. The trio, and Vyacheslav Malafeev and Roman Shirokov, went on to lift the UEFA Cup with Zenit in May under the guidance of Dutch coach Dick Advocaat.

• Dutch forward Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink was in the Celtic FC team that defeated FC Spartak Moskva in the UEFA Champions League third qualifying round last August. Vennegoor of Hesselink missed a penalty in added time in the second leg but then converted a spot-kick as Celtic prevailed on penalties after a 2-2 aggregate draw. Spartak's team featured Russia's Bystrov, Dmitri Torbinski, and forward Pavlyuchenko who scored a goal in both matches.

• The Netherlands have a poor record in penalty shoot-outs, their only victory in five attempts coming against Sweden in the quarter-finals of UEFA EURO 2004™. Previously they had suffered defeats by Denmark (EURO '92), France (EURO '96™), Brazil (1998 World Cup) and Italy (UEFA EURO 2000™).

• Russia, by contrast, have never participated in a penalty shoot-out.

• The winners of this tie will meet the winners of the quarter-final tie between the Group D winners Spain and Italy, the runners-up in Group C in the second semi-final, at Vienna's Ernst-Happel-Stadion on Thursday 26 June. The winners of that game will be designated as the away team for the final in Vienna on 29 June.

euro2008.uefa.com - Tournament - Matches

 

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Germany beats Portugal 3-2

probably the best, and the most fast-paced game in the tournament so far.

 

[Neo]

Germany beats Portugal 3-2

probably the best, and the most fast-paced game in the tournament so far.

True, but not as good as Turkey - Czeck Republic and Holland - Italy.