Yeah, the Dutch's tactic is to make the other team lose their temper..It seems :P

Yup, a bit But they didn't force the Brazilian players too much, maybe one or two dives by Robben. Brazil just lost their tempers as the game got progressively harder for them to win. 

I think something similar will happen tomorrow if Argentina gets caught in the same situation with Germany.

30 (Scoobes) Holland 2-1 Brazil (Tombi123) 25

  Felipe Melo (o.g) 53       Robinho 10

               Sneidjer 68

                                        Felipe Melo 73 (s/o)

Felipe Melo's own goal and straight red sees Tombi123 forfeiting control of both his Avatar and signature to Scoobes for 24 hrs.

8 (Luvtospooge) Uraguay 1-1 Ghana (Zexen_Lowe) 24 (AET)

                                        (4-2)            

                         Forlan 55       Muntari 45(2)

            Suarez 120(1) s/o

Suarez's straight red means Zexen_Lowe gains control of Luvtospooge's signature for 24 hours.

I'm not going to be around much this weekend. Have time to think about what to give Tombi. Any suggestions?

So sorry for the negativity about the Dutch around here... Sore losers?

If there was any team that had it's share of fair play it had been the Dutch so far. And whoever brought up '06, yeah that was a shame but not only on our part. I will not go into a discussion about that but it's better no one goes around blaming the Dutch for that awful match.

What? we've won because some Brasilian lost its temper??? Bullshit. If by any chance the ref was good this match he was surely not in favor of the Dutch. Brasil got away with some recurring fouls without getting a card where a card was long due in the first half.

Other than that... I don't care!!! Revenge for '94 and  '98!!!

Imho it was a deserved victory. Tough fight, good match, and no really strange decisions by the ref. 5 down, 2 to go!!!

It was me that brought it up (the 2006 match). but as I said, in 2006 both Portugal and Holland were at fault for that awful match. Both for the Portuguese players to lose their tempers like that and Van Bommel's incessant tackles until he broke Ronaldo's leg and he still laughed about it.

Anyway, today it was a very deserved win for Holland, especially for the way the completely dominated Brazil on the second half. If Holland had taken the, quite easy, chances that they had at the end of the game, it would have easily ended 4-1.

I hope they go through to the final, as they currently are amongst my two favourite teams to win the WC (the second being Germany). A Holland - Germany final would be epic

Ah... glad it was you

It's hard to stay neutral when the Dutch are playing and it's nice to read positive things about our team. (football thread)

94 and 98 were very tough beatings for us, this is somewhat 'revenge' for those games because Brasil 'always' kicks us out... Now if we can take out Uruguay it will leave us with hopefully Germany or Argentina with whom we've got a score to settle (74 and 78)

Personally i'd like Argentina, for the way the tournament was refereed in '78. To me we've had our revenge on the Germans in '88 and nowadays both Dutch and Germans are happy to support eachother.

No Im not a sore loser. If anything, Brazil and Netherlands are by far my least favorite teams. My 2 favorite are facing each other tomorrow. The Netherlands are probably the best team that didn't win a world cup. Just watch their matches, they have the tendency to pull tricks that gets on the nerves of the other team.

P.S the other team is at fault too, for losing their temper. Just saying that sometimes, they play dirty in a way that gets on the nerves of some of the other players.

Please don't burn me :S

17 (Forest-Spirit) Argentina 0-1 Germany (Hephaestos) 5

                                                  Muller 3

okay that one  was faster than I expected