Van Persie: "It's eating me"

Monday, 28 June 2010

Vladimir Weiss is an interested onlooker as Robin van Persie expresses his unhappiness about his substitution

"I'm not scoring and it's eating me," a sulky Robin van Persie said after Holland's winning match against Slovakia. A game in which he was taken off again: "I believe every center forward will be affected by that."

Fortunately Van Persie saw how Arjen Robben and Wesley Sneijder did score - goals that brought Holland to the quarterfinals. "I had a few chances, but I didn't score. When you look at the football only I didn't play bad. But I'd rather seen we'd have swept them off the park. That didn't happen and I'm unhappy about that."

The Arsenal striker was clear about the fact that he always feels bad when he misses a chance. "I'm not happy about myself then. But it doesn't effect the rest of my performance. That I have learned to do. You can miss every chance, but as a center forward there is always a new chance."

Yet there were no new chances for Van Persie after he got taken off in the 80th minute, something Van Persie wasn't happy about. "Looking at the way the game developed, you know there will be more room towards the end of the game. I wanted to you use that space. Sadly it didn't happen."

Netherlands-Slovakia 2-1

Goals

Cards

32' A. Robben
	40' J. Kucka
	72' K. Kopunek
	84' M. Skrtel
90' + 2 M. Stekelenburg

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