Netherlands vs. Costa Rica (QF4) 21:00, 5 July

Cienciano

Corvus Maximus wrote: »

'Great' performance by Costa Rica to park the bus the entire night and play for penalties. Difficult much.

WTF does that even mean?

JaMarcusHustle

Talib Fiasco wrote: »

What is the fascination with Van Gaal's testicles?

Have you seen the size of them? They are so much bigger than the average man's testicles. That's where most of the fascination is stemming from, I would think.

Billy86

Too Tough To Die wrote: »

That was genius how LVG brought on the better goalie for penalties. What presence of mind. I hope we never hear the end of this.

Never done before in the WC.

8-10

Talib Fiasco wrote: »

What is the fascination with Van Gaal's testicles? Fair play to Krul...some of the stuff he did was not needed and a little unfair but fair dues to him, guessed right every time. Holland looked poor though. Van Persie had a shocker. Argentina should take care of them if Di Maria and/or Aguero are back

Great second save from him, and good point about guessing right each time, didn't notice that but you're right. Top keeper

Ulysses Gaze

8-10 wrote: »

Again it's the intention. Robben wants to win. Ruiz doing it to stop the game and slow down the clock to get to penos. Robben was way more attacking focused than Ruiz in his actions and the better team went through.

You can't justify Robbens behaviour and slate Ruiz.

It's cheating either way.

Frankie Lee

Billy86 wrote: »

Krul had definitely been doing a LOT of penalty training also, guessed every penalty correctly.

I don't think it was guessing, the Portuguese keeper Ricardo used to do the same.

Talib Fiasco

chupacabra wrote: »

Van Gaal is a genius, that is all. Goodnight and good luck xDD

I beg to differ...Holland have farted their way through this WC save the game against Spain. Meh I'm not one to ruin this crazy crush with Van Gaal, all will be spoiled in the upcoming season.

Ronan|Raven

All this lip service to Van Gaal for making the amazing decision for subbing a keeper for a penalty shoot out.. you would swear he was the first manager to do it... sure Sligo swapped in Ciaran Kelly against Shels a few years back in time for their shootout.

Krusader

Krul makes me hope the dutch lose. What a wanker

Hotblack Desiato

keith16 wrote: »

Harsh comment. Costa Rica played with heart and to me, looked like they wanted to win. They played the hand they were dealt.

They've lit up this tournament IMO.

They did, that doesn't mean they're not a very limited side.

efb

Billy86 wrote: »

But stopping during your run up is fair game? Dont actually think the Costa Ricans did, but you see it typically more often than not these days.

It's not as bad as coming up sledging players

Too Tough To Die

Billy86 wrote: »

Never done before in the WC.

Whoaaaa!

Billy86

Talib Fiasco wrote: »

What is the fascination with Van Gaal's testicles?

Ask Luca Toni.

Son Of A Vidic

Cienciano wrote: »

WTF does that even mean?

Surely you're long enough on Boards by now, to have figured out what it means?

rozeboosje

Everybody stop with that flauwekrul over kul ... Krul... Kul... whatever. We won w00t

Omackeral

Frankie Lee wrote: »

I don't think it was guessing, the Portuguese keeper Ricardo used to do the same.

And with his gloves off if I'm not mistaken! What was that about?

DM360

Can't understand the faux outrage at Krul's behaviour. This "FIFA should make a statement" lark is just ridiculous and nothing but sour grapes. There are far more important issues to address when it comes to sportsmanship in this WC.

Krul played mind games a little but it's just the same as players messing around during their run-ups and not even as bad as faking injury to waste time.

CptMackey

Omackeral wrote: »

Staredown is fine. Walking up and handing the ball to the kicker is just being a cock. And I say this as a keeper myself.

Players are constantly doing stupid run ups and other crap so I have no problem with it.
They didn't miss because he handed the ball to them

efb

Van Gal better have big balls their is that many of ye sucking out of them.

Andersonisgod

inforfun wrote: »

Have you ever posted anything else than utter nonsense?

I don't know, that would be down to interpretation. One man's rubbish is another man's valid opinion.

8-10

Ulysses Gaze wrote: »

You can't justify Robbens behaviour and slate Ruiz.

It's cheating either way.

Fine I retract that. But I'm happy Costa Rica lost, they weren't as good on the night and in my opinion were more negative in extra time. Dutch looked like they wanted to score in extra time, Costa Rica looked like they wanted penalties.

Argentina v Netherlands is mouth-watering.

Umadbrah?

Ronan|Raven wrote: »

All this lip service to Van Gaal for making the amazing decision for subbing a keeper for a penalty shoot out.. you would swear he was the first manager to do it... sure Sligo swapped in Ciaran Kelly against Shels a few years back in time for their shootout.

Big difference in doing it in some league of Ireland match as opposed to doing it in the world cup quarter final

Lightbulb Sun

chupacabra wrote: »

Van Gaal is a genius, that is all. Goodnight and good luck xDD

Krul deserves more credit than Van Gaal does.

Mantis Toboggan

Poor form from Krul for the penalties, acted like a dick throughout.

efb

DM360 wrote: »

Can't understand the faux outrage at Krul's behaviour. This "FIFA should make a statement" lark is just ridiculous and nothing but sour grapes. There are far more important issues to address when it comes to sportsmanship in this WC.

Krul played mind games a little but it's just the same as players messing around during their run-ups and not even as bad as faking injury to waste time.

It's not sour grapes if it's not there will more of this and defenders doing it to players before free kicks. It is scummy

CptMackey

efb wrote: »

Van Gal better have big balls their is that many of ye sucking out of them.

You really don't like the Dutch . They deserved to go through imo. Played all the football. Robbens diving included

Hotblack Desiato

namloc1980

Ulysses Gaze wrote: »

Ruiz 1 "fake" injury vs Robbens constant theatrics.....

He did it twice. And both times while the Dutch were in good attacking positions. Incredibly he had remarkable recoveries once the Dutch attacks came to an end!

Will I Amnt

efb wrote: »

It's not sour grapes if it's not there will more of this and defenders doing it to players before free kicks. It is scummy

Scummy? Lol.

UnitedIrishman

efb wrote: »

It's not as bad as coming up sledging players

He's not coming up to sledge off players. Keepers walk up to stand in front of the taker, wait for them to look up and watch them walk back toward goal because apparently it makes them look bigger in the goal. It's a psychological thing.

Billy86

efb wrote: »

It's not as bad as coming up sledging players

Why so?

I think its worse. The goalkeeping equivalent to stopping the run is to come well off their line. One is psychological, the other is pretty much cheating.

marco_polo

Love the way they dug in and got a result despite the obvious talent advantage of the dutch, I enjoy that about football just as much as the prety stuff


Best team went through in the end for sure but max respect to Costa Rica for making them fight for every inch of it

8-10

van Gaal deserves a huge amount of credit, not just for this tournament but for their incredible qualifying campaign in the run up. And that Spain game.

He's a truly excellent coach, one of the best Europe has produced in my opinion.

efb

CptMackey wrote: »

You really don't like the Dutch . They deserved to go through imo. Played all the football. Robbens diving included

They are cynical they are not playing wonderful football of the 70's. Scummy in the last WC and their sub goalie was scummy tonight.

Come on Argentina!!!

Wilberto

TimeToShine wrote: »

WTF is wrong with what Krul did?

They're professionals, not babies, if they can't handle a bit of a staredown then tough sh*t. Keepers have to put up with players taking their time and arsing around in the run up the whole time yet when the keeper tries the equivalent he's a scumbag apparently.

Oh, just a little thing called unsporting behaviour which is stated in the FIFA's Laws of the Game as a cautionable offence.

So yes, there was something wrong with what he did.

Omackeral

Umadbrah? wrote: »

Big difference in doing it in some league of Ireland match as opposed to doing it in the world cup quarter final

In fairness it wasn't just some league of Ireland match. It was the FAI Cup final in the Aviva Stadium in front of 35,000. That's the highest level those lads will probably ever play at. So it's not just some Mickey Mouse thing. It's a cup final shoot out, just as courageous actually in that it's the actual final.

Also, a League match couldn't exactly go to a shoot out could it?!

Zico

efb wrote: »

It is scummy

Is it as bad as saying mean things on the internet for example?

efb

UnitedIrishman wrote: »

He's not coming up to sledge off players. Keepers walk up to stand in front of the taker, wait for them to look up and watch them walk back toward goal because apparently it makes them look bigger in the goal. It's a psychological thing.

He was speaking to the first CR player that missed

Talib Fiasco

Tony Krul to rival De Gea as United keeper next year...calling it

jaykay74

Fair play to Krul, if you don't like it as a penalty taker stick the ball in the net and laugh at him. The faux outrage is pathetic

DM360

efb wrote: »

It's not sour grapes if it's not there will more of this and defenders doing it to players before free kicks. It is scummy

Scummy? How is it scummy? Relative to other offences on the pitch it's nothing.

If staring someone down is scummy, what would you call Brazil and Colombia kicking seven shades out of each other yesterday, deliberately targeting the opposite teams best players? What about the rampant diving and time wasting?

AdamD

Didn't realise we had so many Dutchmen on boards

adox

Keepers have been at similar things for years. It's gamesmanship and up to the ref to deal with it.

It's a nothing story being concocted on here by over emotional underdog fans that didn't get the result they want.

jodaw

8-10 wrote: »

van Gaal deserves a huge amount of credit, not just for this tournament but for their incredible qualifying campaign in the run up. And that Spain game.

He's a truly excellent coach, one of the best Europe has produced in my opinion.

He is an arrogant tosspot:pac:

niallo27

Where were van gal big balls when it came to van Persie. He was shocking. He could have cost them the game.

8-10

AdamD wrote: »

Didn't realise we had so many Dutchmen on boards

Dutch fans, but nice try. Whenever Ireland don't qualify for a tournament I'm Oranje all the way! Hup Holland Hup!

UnitedIrishman

efb wrote: »

He was speaking to the first CR player that missed

Even if he did, so what? His job is to put off the taker and save penalties.

R00ster

I suppose this means Paul Cook is a managerial genius as well

8-10

jodaw wrote: »

He is an arrogant tosspot:pac:

So's Mourinho. Doesn't mean he's crap

Omackeral

Talib Fiasco wrote: »

Tony Krul to rival De Gea as United keeper next year...calling it

If you're gonna go calling it at least get the chaps name right.