Robben: "We can still improve"

Wednesday 01 April 2009

Arjen Robben wasn't as present tonight as he was against Scotland on Saturday and he got substituted at half-time, but he was involved in Holland's first goal.

"Well, I took a few knocks and as it was decided and we have to play another game on Saturday with Madrid I didn't want to take any risk," he explained his early departure.

Despite not playing great Robben took a good feeling from the game.

"Yeah, this is great. We started this week to decide this qualification campaign. We did that and so we did well. We know we have a lot of quality in the team and you could see that in the first half. We had a few good forward moves in the first half, took apart their defense and then you know we have a couple of decent forwards who can finish it for you."

Still Robben thinks Holland can improve.

"We still made too many mistakes, little things but we caused ourselves some problems. After the break we should perhaps have scored more goals as there are people in the stands as well to who we have an obligation. We had the intention to do that, but it isn't always that easy."