RolStoppable said:
koffieboon said:
Oke, a short recap of Dutch results of the last 20 years, just out of my memory: Euro 1988 won final against Sovjet Union 2-0 WC 1990 lost to Germany 2-1 (in the second round?) Euro 1992 lost semi final against Denmark on penalties WC 1994 lost quarter final against Brazil 2-3 Euro 1996 lost quarter final against France on penalties WC 1998 lost semi final against Brazil on penalties Euro 2000 lost semi final against Italy on penalties WC 2002 Did not qualify Euro 2004 lost semi final to Portugal 2-1 WC 2006 lost second round to Portugal 1-0 Basically we had a pretty good peak in the 90s, usually going out on penalties at the latter stages of the tournament. Looking at the last 2 championships we'll be alright as long as we don't have to play Portugal  |
You have a pretty good memory, because I remember these same results as well. Euro 2000 was the most horrible match to watch, your team missed two penalty kicks in the regular game and another three in the shootout. I hope, your current team coach lets the players practice penalty kicks. 
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You have an even better memory if you remember the results of other countries than your own. And I hope we'll actually get to a stage where we need to take some penalty kicks That game in 2000 was horrible, we were definitely better than Italy but you could also say we deserved to go out when scoring only 1 penalty out of 6 attempts.
