...over 9000!
I am still a bit baffled by people having such high hopes for Netherland. This the - what? - 3rd tournament they went to with pretty much same team, with a huge amount of talent piled up in it. I mean let's go through the team and see who plays for the Netherlands:
Bommel, Heitinga, Van Persie, Snejder, Van der Vaart, Afellay, Robben, Hunterlaar... Those guys belong to the best in Europe. Still they mange to fuck up for... I dunno... 10 years now? And every single tournament there are people saying: Look at that team, so many great players, they surely gonna make it THIS time.
The problem sure isn't the lack of good players but some mental issue they have. It's not even just this generation. The last one was barely better doing, if I recall it correctly.
Something is wrong in the Dutch football scene... seems to be for me the only reasonable explanation.
Yesterday, Danish Dynamity made a way, way better match than Netherlands did before. Still I see people saying, they suck. Well, I had a lot of fun yesterday watching Denmark but I was rather disappointed about Netherlands...
Did some of you watch the last Swedish game. Very mediocre but Ibrahimovic? Man, that guy is a genius if he wants to ;) Even he showed more of his class during this tournament than any of the Dutch players... and most of the time I got the impression that he is bored by playing with that rather bad team, except maybe for Källström and Melberg. Anyway...
Not trolling, not ranting, not mad nor angry. Just wondering why everybody seems to be surprised about Netherlands going home early. Seeing Russia going home and Greece advancing surprised me - Netherlands did as I was expecting, unfortunately not as I hoped, that I admit.