Btw rich and Bagor, if there ever was a pointless 3rd place playoff game, this year is it.
The Brazilian team just wants to hide underground. Van Gaal is already raging in the media about how it has "nothing to do with sports" and the Netherlands official facebook group already declared yesterday that the tournament is over.
One of the downsides of not having a real underdog in the semifinals I guess.
So you're saying that 200 million Brazilians and 17 million Dutch agree with me and Bagor?
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The third place game is a farce. It's more or less the most meaningless game of the tournament. It's basically which side is less apathetic which indeed does defeat the purpose of sport. Both these teams are utterly crushed and now they have to play another game? Pure cash grab.
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The third place game is a farce. It's more or less the most meaningless game of the tournament. It's basically which side is less apathetic which indeed does defeat the purpose of sport. Both these teams are utterly crushed and now they have to play another game? Pure cash grab.
They'll play all the guys who didnt get a chance to play before.
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Some say that Vlaar penalty might have crossed the line.
Hah
Doesn't look like it went over the line even from that angle, and there's a linesman right on the goal line looking, and the main ref seems to be looking at the ball. And some ref eventually went to pick up that ball to give it to the next shooter, at which point he would absolutely have noticed if it was over the goal line. Plus there's thousands of people right behind that goal line. And there's the whole Dutch team looking. And that's forgetting they have the goal line technology to tell the difference now, which is automated and would have buzzed the ref had the ball actually crossed the line.
And NOW someone says it might have crossed? Pretty weak.
Netherlands coach Louis van Gaal has revealed two of his players refused to step up to take the first penalty in Wednesday's 4-2 World Cup semi-final shoot-out loss to Argentina.
The ill-fated honor eventually fell to defender Ron Vlaar, whose effort was saved by Argentina keeper Sergio Romero.
"I asked two players ahead of Vlaar to take the first penalty," van Gaal told Dutch news agency ANP.
"They refused. Vlaar in my view was our best player. Unfortunately he didn't score," the Manchester United-bound coach added.
