Howard kept low. If Belgium started dinking they could have made it 5-0. Glad Belgium went through though because I see them making a bigger impact later on than the USA.
big tactical question with the belgians is how many waffles they get fed. too many waffles and they will become doughy and bloated. too few, they will lose their natural belgian pep. it's a fine line and it could go either way. also, full-backs
more should have been 0-1 since costa rica should have had a penalty and the dutch missed all their chances. still, aranka will be happy, so i'm happy.
they had plenty of opportunities. they hit the bar 4 times and navas was motm. and costa rica got plenty of men forward for attacks, going into a 3-5-2 and getting men in the box, leaving plenty of space for counter-attacks. they also played a fairly high line (in the first part of the game at least), catching the dutch offside very often.
Yeah, but that's if you define opportunity as getting the ball inside the penalty area. Because the Costa Ricans really played 9-1 the ball rarely came close to the goal. But I should not complain really, Krul did an amazing job and Argentina will be easier I think (after watching them against Belgium).
more should have been 0-1 since costa rica should have had a penalty and the dutch missed all their chances. still, aranka will be happy, so i'm happy.
Yeah, bit of a surprise. Although I would have predicted 4-1 for germany but I didn`t since everytime I predict big scores it ends in 1-0 or something. 5-0 in less than 30 minutes is definatly a surprise though and shows how good Germany is at this moment.