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Netherlands v. Slovakia 15:00 BST

Brazil v. Chile 19:00 BST

Well, the world cup goes on despite losing it's best team to a FIFA conspiracy.

A couple of also-rans playing today.

The Dutch should scrape past Slovakia. I read Robben will be on the bench. He may well be needed before the end though.

I'd expect Chile to give Brazil a good game, but the Brazilians have an excellent record against them in recent matches.



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Afraid Slovakia won't stand a chance, 3-0 or 3-1 to Netherlands.

Brazil and Chile however will be interesting, something like 2-1 or 3-2 to Brazil, Chile can win this I reckon with a bit of luck.



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Holland will probably win this, but not with a big margin I'm afraid. All matches in the group stage were laboured affairs, no fluent play. And I fear that despite the talk of "not underestimating our opponent", quite a few players will have their eye on a possible match against Brazil this Friday.

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Holland 1 -0 up. Robben outstanding yet again. If City are willing to pay £28m for Silva then Robben's price tag must be over £40m!

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Pretty drab first half, the Dutch seem content with a one goal lead. The Dutch and Brazil both seem to have given up their attacking, fluid ambitions for a more pragmatic and defensive approach. Let's see how it works.

I must say, I haven't been particularly impressed with Hamsik this tournament, I don't get what all the fuss is about.



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Robben doing his usual stuff, cutting inside and smashes it in to the net near first post.

I'm sure it's easier said than done but you'd think Slovika would do everything to take that move away from him.

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I'm sure it's easier said than done but you'd think Slovika would do everything to take that move away from him.

Many better and more experienced players have tried and failed to do exactly that. best way to stop Robben is to boot hm early doors! As we saw at Chelsea that tends to make him think twice about trying.



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Many better and more experienced players have tried and failed to do exactly that. best way to stop Robben is to boot hm early doors! As we saw at Chelsea that tends to make him think twice about trying.

Well that's my point. Why not give him a hard foul when he's cutting in like that? Sure you'll give up a free kick in a very dangerous spot and maybe pickup a yellow but it might be better than the alternative. He almost scored again on the same move in the 50'.

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Slovakia have missed a couple of one-on-ones in the second half through Vittek. If they lose this, they will have no one but themselves to blame. Also, that Stoch lad doesn't look too bad.

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After watching Slovakia play four games, how the heck did Italy concede three goals to this team? Other than that match their attack has been nearly nonexistent.

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After watching Slovakia play four games, how the heck did Italy concede three goals to this team? Other than that match their attack has been nearly nonexistent.

I was tempted to say they had three excellent chances to score, ASIDE from the penalty, but I just saw I've already written that today, in the post above your own

Were you watching the same game?



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The Dutch played their usual 4-2-3-1 formation with Van Bommel and de Jong the holding midfielders protecting the back four and controlling possession and tempo of the game. They have two world class players in Sneijder and Robben. The latter made his first start in the competition and opened the scoring. He deserved MOM. Looking forward to the game between Holland and Brazil on Friday. Brazil cannot afford to take the Dutch lightly. However, I expect Brazil to come out on top with a 2-1 victory.

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It's kind of a let down to have Germany v Argentina in one QTR final, and Netherlands v Brazil in another...when another one has Uruguay and Ghana...not that they're bad teams...but they don't have the quality of the other teams.



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Netherlands v Brazil

:greysweat:

Had a lot of fun in the pub trying to convince my colleagues that Kuyt and Van Persie would not score, so "calm down everybody". Kuyt had one good cross in him, from which Sneijder scored, but apart from that it was the usual galloping around with no end result. Van Persie is painfully out of form after his long lay-off. Holland need to improve massively to stand a chance against Brazil.

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So far Robben has appeared for the grand total of 90 minutes and yet has done more than most other star name players in the tournament. If he could just stay fit then he'd have a legitimate shot at being the best player in the world.


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So far Robben has appeared for the grand total of 90 minutes and yet has done more than most other star name players in the tournament. If he could just stay fit then he'd have a legitimate shot at being the best player in the world.

You said it: if he could just stay fit. As a precaution, I aim my sneezes away from South Africa.

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I was tempted to say they had three excellent chances to score, ASIDE from the penalty, but I just saw I've already written that today, in the post above your own

Were you watching the same game?

I certainly saw it. They had chances against the Dutch but couldn't finish. All their shots were pretty much right at the goalkeeper. Not to say the saves were easy but...

I was talking more about the totality of their three games against New Zeland, Paraguay and Netherlands. Their attack was non existent for 95% of those matches.

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