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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
So if two or three of those spots that hot the bar were an inch or two different Van Gaal is a good coach?
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And if Costa Rica scores after van Gaal let them in the game by subbing in van Huntelaar, who didn't do anything else than get carded, we'd have a consensus that he made a huge mistake that cost the team the game.
Close doesn't count. Belgium hit the bar, Chile hit the bar, Algeria was close, Switzerland was close, USA hit the post... Yet everyone agree the right team won those games.
At the end of the day, Netherlands had chances, but not a lot of great ones, and nothing van Gaal did during the whole game did anything to change that, other than somewhat pointlessly subbing in van Huntelaar which made things worse.