Haha true I didn't pay attention when Löw nominated the squad.

Wow. Ronaldo was phenomenal tonight, absolutely astonishing. Best individual performance of the tournament so far by a long way. Glad they went through.

Holland were highly underwhelming. All that quality going forward and they found the net twice. Nice to see Ronaldo come late to the party.

Bendtner took the shot so no penalty. There is no advatage in the box.

To be honest, me neither. I only realized today when I read a pre-match interview with Lars from Leverkusen that he's in the squad and not Sven from Dortmund. That's my BVB goggles, I guess.

What a great moment to score your first goal for your national team http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars_Bender#International_goals

There's really not much to make of Nederland / the Netherlands.

Holland is only a part of the country, comparable to England and the United Kingdom.

Dutch may come from Diets, which has a common ancestor with Deutsch. Had things gone different in the middle ages we might be part of Germany.

Congrats to Portugal.

I feel sorry for Denmark. They played pretty well and clever in all 3 matches imo and most probably would have made it to the QF in, say, group A.

Would be awkward considering their anthem has a part where it goes like  'being from German blood' they just sang it.

Yes, I meant to type Netherlands but got lazy.

i believe they sing something from king wilhelm or something like that from german blood and something about spain as well but not sure what this was.