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Hengelo, The Netherlands
Nov 1999
time: 06:34
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Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
football365.com is reporting that Robben could be out for a month after his ankle injury playing for Holland. The guy seems to be pretty injury prone, doesn't he? |
He was still recovering when he played against Romania. Just a case of wanting to come back too soon (I hope)...
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I'd like to see Holland win it for once. |
Well, normally qualifying is the hardest part for the Netherlands. It's a rarity when we didn't need a play-off, a final match decider, or depended on other teams to screw up to qualify for a major tournament.
Now, for like the second time ever, it looks like we might actually qualify with ease (*knocks on wood*). I don't know how, but Van Basten manages to keep on winning, even with lots of young and (very) inexperienced players and often not terribly impressive football (though things are gradually starting to improve). There's no telling what effect that'll have on the team. It could backfire and shock the team so badly they get their arses kicked on the WC itself (that's what happened the last time we qualified with ease, back in 1990), or it might inspire confidence and result in the impossible: us actually winning the tournament for once. Providing the former doesn't happen, I'd say the Netherlands has a pretty darn good chance.
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Locutus
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Hengelo, The Netherlands
Nov 1999
time: 06:34
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Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Ok, I agree with that. Holland won 2-0 over Romania, but Romania played better than Holland during most of the game, IMO. They were just unlucky with the finishing. |
Well, I wouldn't say Romania played much better, both teams played pretty darn poor. But they were more on the offensive than the Dutch. Their defense however had more holes than Swiss cheese, and the Dutch offense only has itself to blame for not taking advantage of that. Our own defense was solid as rock though, and the Romanians only had one or two half-chances all match (though admittedly that also had to do with the unconvincing performance of the Romanians). Offensively though, the Netherlands really only played well in the last 10-15 minutes of each half (which is still more than in all previous qualifying matches). That lucky 1st minute goal saved the day for us, things could've gone very differently had that not gone in...
But we did win what was the 2nd most important game of this qualifying series and we won it with a 2-goal difference. Unless really weird start things happening, Romania is out of the running for a WC place and the Netherlands is well on track for either a 1st place or a best 2nd place (depending on the outcome of the Czech Rep - Netherlands match in October) and thus direct qualification for the WC...
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Big Up The Macedonian Massive
Apr 2000
time: 05:34
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Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Put me on the Joe Cole bandwagon as well. He's been doing pretty well lately for Chelsea, even with Robben coming back, he's been playing good enough that Mourinho had to find a spot for him. Always had the promise, now it is starting to be realized. |
robben is out for a month still i think. also joe cole has been playing well, but not where he played for england.
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England 2 - 0 Azerbaijan
Could have had 10 or 15 really. Owen was shite, should have had 7 himself, Rooney was superb again.
Any British people know what the music at the end of Match of the Day was tonight? Im sure ive heard it before.
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Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Wow... David Beckham was amazing apparently. If he just is consistent at it... |
Who said he was?
He was alright, he did what was asked of him, but its hard to judge any of ours players performance against such crap opposition. Thought it was pretty stupid of him to run on with one boot on without the linesman telling him he could go back on, thus getting a yellow card. When he took that throw-in from behind the hoardings i thought he was gonna be sent off.
I noticed they also didnt bring Heskey on again, thank god, he probably wouldve ended up with a goal and been picked for the next 2 years.
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He got cheered off, moreso for his antics with the ref, he was having fun out there. Hes also the captain, its a shoo-in for a good reception when youre taken off.
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It was hardly that from what I saw, and seriously, the team were winning comfortably, something like 5 minutes left, the captain comes off, he doesnt have to have done much really to receive a few cheers.
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30-03-2005 06:03
. If he can ever get that temper under control, there's no limit to what he can accomplish. Just hope he doesn't take a flying kick at a fan as another ManU striker may have done in the past 
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