Guy Oliver - Oliver's Almanack of World Football

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Semi-finals
PA RT O N E – F I FA A N D W O R L D F O OT B A L L
Green Point
Cape Town
Tuesday
6-07-2010
Kick-off: 20:30 Clear Night 11° Attendance: 62 479
URUGUAY 2 3 NETHERLANDS
Diego Forlan 41, Maximiliano Pereira 92+
16 Maximiliano Pereira 21
15 Diego Perez
7 Dirk Kuyt
7 Edinson Cavani
46
5 Giovanni Van Bronckhorst(c)
URUGUAY
Sky blue shirts, Black shorts, Black socks
3 Diego Godin
5 Walter Gargano
14 Demy De Zeeuw
23 Rafael Van der Vaart
Tr: Oscar Tabarez
1 Fernando Muslera
Tr: Bert van Marwijk
Orange shirts, Orange shorts, Orange socks
NETHERLANDS
It was a match worthy of the World Cup semi-finals.
I'm proud of my players. We're disappointed, but
we've shown everyone who wrote us off beforehand
that we're not very far off the top. We gave it our best
shot, but it wasn't quite enough. I'm still completely
satisfied with my team. They reacted well to going a
goal down, they fought back and equalised, and they
battled right to the end. I can't ask for more than that,
nor can the players, and nor can our country.
Oscar Tabarez
84
9 Robin Van Persie
4 Joris Mathijsen
6 Mauricio Victorino
17 Egidio Arevalo
10 Wesley Sneijder† 29
10 Diego Forlan(c)
21 Sebastian Fernandez
3 John Heitinga
1 Maarten Stekelenburg
Giovanni van Bronckhorst 18, Wesley Sneijder 70,
Arjen Robben 73
78
89
6 Mark Van Bommel 95+
22 Martin Caceres 29
11 Alvaro Pereira
13 Sebastian Abreu
11 Arjen Robben
17 Eljero Elia
12 Khalid Boulahrouz 78
MATCH STATS
URU NED
12 Shots 11
6 Shots on Goal 7
15 Fouls Committed 16
4 Corner Kicks 5
4 Caught Offside 5
565 Passes 610
326 Completed Passes 390
58% Passes Success 64%
110 Km Covered 108
23 Av. Top Speed km/h 23
47% Possession 53%
MATCH OFFICIALS
REFEREE
Ravshan Irmatov UZB
ASSISTANTS
Rafael Ilyasov UZB
Bakhadyr Kochkarov KGZ
4TH OFFICIAL
Yuichi Nishimura JPN
(C)Captain †Man of the Match
When I took this job two years ago, I said to the
players, 'We're on a mission, and we just have to
believe in ourselves'. We're only a small country but
we're through to the Final, that's just unbelievable. I
love beautiful football, but I also want to win. In the
second half, we proved we're a decent footballing
side. We took control of the match. We actually
should have made it 4-1, but it was a close-run thing
at the end.
Bert van Marwijk