Uruguay-Netherlands 2-3
Sneijder's brain power makes difference for sparkling
Oranje
Wednesday 7 July 2010
By James Lawton
In added time there was a moment
when all the logic of this game was put into the most
severe peril. The superstars have failed in this 19th
World Cup, we keep being told, but do not whisper it
in the bars of old Amsterdam today and any time this
side of Sunday's World Cup final. Here last night Wesley
Sneijder and Arjen Robben defined quite what it was
to go out and meet their responsibilities as footballers
of vast reward and national following.
There were times when the Dutch
were less than magisterial but they had something that
will always remain utterly decisive. In Sneijder and
Robben they had two players with the moral courage to
accept responsibility for all that was happening around
them. They played and they thought their way through
any hint of crisis. They broke down Uruguay and their
hero Diego Forlan with a combination of craft and moments
of brilliance which made their passage into the final
entirely appropriate.
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0-1 |
18' G Van Bronckhorst |
| 41' D. Forlan |
1-1 |
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1-2 |
70' W. Sneijder |
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1-3 |
73' A. Robben |
| 90"+2 M. Pereira |
2-3 |
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21' M. Pereira  |
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| 30' M. Caceres |
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30' Sneijder |
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78' K. Boulahrouz |
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90'+2 M. van Bommel |
| Muslera |
|
M. Stekelenburg |
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| Maxi Pereira |
|
K. Boulahrouz |
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| Godin |
|
J. Mathijsen |
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| Victorino |
|
J. Heitinga |
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| Caseres |
|
G. van Bronckhorst |
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| Perez |
|
M. van Bommel |
|
| Alvaro Pereira |
78' S. Abreu |
D. de Zeeuw |
46' R. Van der Vaart |
| Gargano |
|
W. Sneijder |
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| Arevalo |
|
A. Robben |
90' E. Elia |
| Forlan |
84' S. Fernández |
D. Kuyt |
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| Cavani |
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R. van Persie |
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