EURO 2008 quarter finals Netherlands vs Russia
The 3rd quarter final at EURO 2008 will be Netherlands vs Russia and will be play in 21 June 2008 at Basel.
The Netherlands won all 3 games in Group C, they score most goals in this tournament, 9. They beat Italy, France and Romania.
Russia a team from second place in Group B, won the games with Greece and Sweden, and lost against Spain.Netherlands is one of the 3 teams who won all games in Groups (Croatia and Spain). But in the second quarter Croatia lost at penalty with Turkey. This and the next quarter will tell us if at this EURO in the semifinals we will have a tam which won all games.
Both teams are coached by a Dutch, Netherlands Marco van Basten, Russia Guus Hiddink.
Hiddink comes with coach experience, he coach teams like The Netherlands, South Korea and Australia. He have good results at all teams.
Marco van Basten coach just the Netherlands team (from national teams), he qualified Netherlands to World Cup 2006 but lost in q16 after a lost 0-1 with Portugal. After this tournament he will leave the team and start the coach career at Ajax.
In statistics until this quarter The Netherlands is at the bottom at yellow cards statistics. They receive just 2 both in the first game with Italy : Sneijder 31′ and de Jong 58′.
If we look further in statistics we found that Russia is leading the shots wide statistics with 26 in 3 games (8.67/game). In this stat Netherland is somewhere at the bottom on palce 14 with 17 shots wide 95.67/game)
Another statistics regarding this 2 teams found Russia on top and The Netherlands on the bottom at corners statistics. Russia with 27 (9/game) and Netherlands 7 (2.33/game)
Pff , again some shit ass country wins , freaking hell whats next maybe turkey wins the whole thing eh? pff.
Russia is not “some shit ass country”, they are just better than Holland. Turkey have too much yellow cards, they will lose next match.
Russia is power house and Netherland is chcker of Soccer game.Always high expectation, but doesnt come with the result. So, lets see wat can Russia do in the next match. Best wishes to them.
You idiot! They didn’t beat Germany but France! Incredible incompetence…
yes, Alex I am an idiot.
Thanks for your notice, I corrected the article
To Ice_Moby, Russia isn’t better than Holland. The dutch team just wasn’t clear headed because of all the drama around the death of Bouhlarouz’s child. You can see it at the beginning. In the beginning they already weren’t there with their heads. Bouhlarouz should have stayed home with his wife, and not come along to the stadium. The drama influenced the performences of the dutch team. You can see it very clear. How else can a team win with amazing scores and matches from great countries and then sudden lose from a country like Russia (no offence) but it’s clear that they weren’t able to play to the fullest because of the Boulahrouz-drama.
It’s very sad.
Russia has won just from lucky.. and Hiddink knew tactic of Holland
For the first time The Netherlands was beaten by a Dutch
The Russian victory against The Netherlands at European Championship was the first time ever when a Dutch, coaching the opponent beat The Netherlands in a football game.