Oranje loses on penalties!

June 8th, 2011 | by: Jan |

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Oranje closed the 2011/12 season with a defeat on penalties against Uruguay. In the closing minutes of the game, Suarez and Kuyt – the Liverpool duo – made sure we saw some goals in regular playing time. Van Persie and Elia missed from the spot which meant Uruguay won the Confraternidad Cup. Van Marwijk: “Good, because we didn’t have room left in our luggage to take that cup home anyway.”

In the first 25 minutes, Oranje was calling the shots. Afellay was close to a goal with a free kick sailing past and Kuyt and Huntelaar were threatening as well.

Erik Pieters saved another goal by clearing a Cavani header off the line. Perez was shown yellow after an attack on Huntelaar. Strootman copped yellow too. Lugano deserved red after a charge with two legs and studs up on Van Persie but the ref decided to ignore that one, fueling Oranje’s anger.

Both teams decided to play some more football. Van Persie missed ten meters from goal and Afellay was stopped by goalie Muslera, when he slipped away from the Uruguay defense. A Suarez goal was disallowed on the basis of off side. Alleged off side.

After the break, Bruma came on for Mathijsen. The second international game for the Chelsea man. The game went from box to box in the second half but real opportunities didn’t knock. Nigel de Jong got yellow for talking. Schaars replaced Strootman, Maduro came for De Jong and Luuk de Jong replaced Huntelaar.

Pereiro got yellow for a foul on Bruma and the latter copped it too later on. The many replacements slowed the game down and Oranje suddenly looked down the barrel when Suarez scored a surprise goal in the 81st minute. Cavani crossed the ball in, a number of defenders missed the ball but Suarez showed composure and scored.

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Suarez had his recognition and was replaced when Kuyt scored the equaliser in the dying seconds of the game. Schaars took a corner and Kuyt scored at the near post. Before the penalty series, Elia came on for Kuyt (What?? Kuyt is a penalty specialist?! Elia missed….).

PENALTIES:
Van Persie rugby 3-pointer
Cavani 1-0
Schaars 1-1 (ball is stuck in upper corner)
Hernandez 2-1
Luuk de Jong 2-2
Victorino 3-2 (via fingertips Krul)
Elia hits Muslera
Lodeiro misses, Krul saves
Heitinga 3-3
Pereira 4-3 (Krul choses the right corner but can’t get there)
dirk scoort

Line up Uruguay: Muslera – Pereira, Lugano, Godín, Cáceres – Pérez, Ríos, Ramírez – Forlán, Cavani, Suárez.

Oranje: Krul – Boulahrouz, Heitinga, Mathijsen, Pieters – N. de Jong, Strootman – Kuyt, Van Persie, Afellay – Huntelaar.

John Heitinga is satisfied with this trip, which was actually aimed at making money for the federation ( to fund the English language site???). “We played well and actually really well even, at times”. Not all internationals felt like going but Heitinga thinks the group enjoyed itself. “I believe we could have and should have won both games. And seeing these countries was actually quite cool. But we’re all happy to go on a holiday now.”

Uruguay did play ‘unfriendly” at times. Heitinga: “You know that going into the game and you can’t back off. I do believe the ref should have sorted that charge on Van Persie out. That was just stupid. But we didn’t lose our head and kept on playing. It was a good game.”

Bert van Marwijk: “This trip gave me heaps. It was effective for me and I believe the lads enjoyed it. Playing Brazil and going to Uruguay, it’s all pretty unique.” Oranje didn’t have a number of starters in Sneijder, Van der Vaart, Stekelenburg and Van Bommel but never got in trouble. “Both Brazil and Uruguay had the home advantage and a fit squad focused on the South American tournament. They also wanted revenge. Despite all this we never got in trouble, so I’m happy.”

“And all the set backs, it creates character. We will be who we are now. We won’t be dragged into stuff. I think the group deserves a compliment. We could have won both games, with a bit of luck.”

Losing on penalties is not a big drama for the team manager. “Some telecoms company offered a cup and therefore we needed a winner. We actually wanted to win it, but I’m glad we didn’t because we didn’t have room left in our luggage anyway…”, a smiling Van Marwijk concluded.

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By Keko | June 9th, 2011 at 7:43 pm

My 23:

Keepers:
- Stekelenburg
- Krul
- Vorm

Defenders:
- Van der Wiel
- Heitinga
- Mathijsen
- Pieters
- Boulahrouz/Janmaat
- Douglas
- Bruma
- Anita (Very usefull, he can play as a right/left back and as a defensive midfelder)

Midfielders:
- Van Bommel
- De Jong
- Van der Vaart
- Gert Arendt Roorda
- Sneijder
- Afellay

Forwards:
- Van Persie
- Huntelaar
- Robben
- Kuyt
- Elia
- Royston Drenthe

Sadly Assaidi choose Marocco instead Netherland, he woul be a very usefull winger. Cor Pot never gave him a chance in Oranje U21.

By jake | June 9th, 2011 at 9:38 pm

GOALIES (play 1 out of 3):
1. Stekelenburg
2. Krul
3. vorm

DEFENDERS (play 4 out of 7):
4. Wiel
5. Heitinga
6. Mathijsen
7. Pieters
8. Bruma (can play ring wing)
9. Maduro
10. marcellis/ de vrij/ aanholt

Holding MIDFIELDERS (play 1 out of 5):
11. Nigel
12. Bommel
13. Strootman
14. De Guzman
15. Janssen/ schaars/ de zeuuw (can’t decide)

Attacking MIDFIELDERS (play 2 out of 3):
16. Sneijder
17. Vaart
18. Wijnaldum

FORWARDS (play 3 out of 5):

19. Afellay
20. Robben
21. Persie
22. Kuyt
23. Huntelaar

since wijnaldum in, no elia until he improved
no boula, replaced by bruma
since no player close to weil/ heiting/ mathisen/ maduro quality, there is no harm to recruit early young player for left or right back, aanholt/ de vrij

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By Ralph | June 9th, 2011 at 10:00 pm

I just got one request for BvMarwijk: please drop RvP from the 11. It’s taking us absolutely nowhere.

By Sonneveld | June 9th, 2011 at 10:24 pm

Omg friendlies away at Brazil and Uruguay and we expect domination? I am happy with these results. Remember brazil didn’t score on us. Are they calling saying Neymar should never play for brazil again
Maybe the service from good old dirkie and robben wasn’t good enough. Besides what did huntelaar exactly do that was so good. I’ll wait for huntelaar to actually perform at a club before I talk him up again, 3 years but let’s see eh? The truth is those are two good results and I did feel like RVP was one of the best players on the pitch against brazil

By Jalepinho | June 9th, 2011 at 11:24 pm

Sonneveld is right and by the way, i wouldn’t say getting to the world cup finals is “absolutely nowhere”.

By OranjeAussie | June 10th, 2011 at 1:32 am

Can someone fill me in on why Johnny strugles to get a starting spot for Everton… How a team that can’t even make Europa league can have a player with such quality starting on the bench…

Also on the Rvp v Huntelaar debate it’s a hard one but I have to say huntelaar may not be doing well at club level but for holland so far in euro qualifiers he has been great and when you’ve got so much creativity ie. Sneijder, robben, vaart, afellay plus many more he does great…. Think of Robben also Ribery creates so many chances for Gomez at bayern personally Im not a big fan of Gomez but gee does he score i think possibly Hunterlaar for Oranje is like a Gomez for bayern…

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By Steve | June 10th, 2011 at 2:14 am

I say the same as Jalepinho.

Man, I also wish Drenthe wasn’t such a punk, its getting tragic. I still feel like he has a great football brain under that hair somewhere..

Hope Elia doesn’t follow Babel.. I haven’t lost faith in him just yet and lucky for him BvM usually doesn’t change things too quickly anyways. I think he will get chances yet.

Whats with those 3?? They piss me off

I would also like to see us try out some sort of 3-5-2 sometime..

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By Finnster01 | June 10th, 2011 at 3:50 am

@Steve: Agree 110%. Why is it that the best young Dutch talent has to waste it away because they are punks? It is actually quite tragic.

By Robbert | June 10th, 2011 at 5:12 am

i have read he article about the uruguay game. Its a comment-based article and it was sad to see how many people were still bashing Oranje for not winning any worldcups. I know we didn’t win any, but it still hurt that many people cant give us recognition for everything we have done for football. we laid the grounworks for the best football ever played by any team with our Total Football.

http://www.goal.com/en/match/59879/uruguay-vs-netherlands/report

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By ferenc | June 10th, 2011 at 6:20 am

i feel like Steve and Finn – when i saw drenthe ib the first time,i thought he could be the new davids… with babel i had the new kluivert feeling… elia is on the same way… now babel has completely disappeared… drenthe not,but i would prefer if he did because in the spanish press you can read about him: he doesn’t go to trainings,he likes the nightlife,etc. wasted talents. they are definitely punks. i hope elia will return to his level,but drenthe and babel are already wasted… too bad.

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By OranjeRules | June 10th, 2011 at 7:26 am

Drenthe and Babel should have stayed home until they got alot older. They needed their mothers watching over them and whipping the shit out of them when they got out of hand. Instead they went to huge cities and partied more than practiced and pissed away SOOOOOO much talent! After the last 12 mos maybe Elia is doing the same thing. He looked sooooo good in his spot duty at WC-2010 but now looks lost and was not really a factor for Oranje or Hamburg the last 12 mos.

By Paul | June 10th, 2011 at 8:34 am

On a side note, Goal.com reports Steve McClaren to Vitesse and that he will be given 50 million to spend on transfers…this seems unlikely…

By Steve | June 10th, 2011 at 9:24 am

Warning – Almost everything from goal .com seems unlikely. They have a decent layout but I hate that site, they will ‘print’ not only rumors but outright lies.

Not surprising then that the people who read, or worse, the people who actually believe the ‘news’ there and then those who will comment on these stupid articles are mostly all just as dumb as the writers.
Don’t get sucked in.

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By Steve | June 10th, 2011 at 9:42 am

I exaggerate too much, I should say “lots” instead of “almost everything” in my first line… Haha

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By ferenc | June 10th, 2011 at 9:49 am

Steve: one more time i agree with you. i like some essays on goal.com,but the average articles are really bad,rather rumours and speculations than facts,especially in summer… after games sometimes they rate players who didn’t play (wednesday they rated robben’s performance against uruguay). one typical exemple: yesterday they wrote a good article about the spanish press,everything was true,but the problem is that they translate exactly the same nonsense articles they criticize later… the comments seems like fanletters written by 10-12 year old kids…

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By Steve | June 10th, 2011 at 11:11 am

Hahaha totally

By Karan Kadaba | June 10th, 2011 at 12:36 pm

Is Holland participating in the U-21 euro championships ?

By Steve | June 10th, 2011 at 1:05 pm

They were eliminated already

By Abhirup | June 10th, 2011 at 1:28 pm

Robbert:
Don’t feel bad and never argue with idiots.They drag you down to their level and beat you with experience..
HUP HOLLAND!! Cheers!!

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By Jan | June 10th, 2011 at 6:22 pm

Next up, news about Ajax!! And a lengthy article on Dutch prospects…

And erotic pics of Royston Drenthe!

By Jan | June 10th, 2011 at 6:27 pm

FC Twente wants Frank Rijkaard or Ronald Koeman.

Atletico Madrid wants Jon De Guzman.

Feyenoord wants Bas Dost.

Tottenham Hotspur and Aston Villa want Kevin Strootman.

By Jad | June 10th, 2011 at 6:31 pm

cool Jan

By Caleb | June 10th, 2011 at 9:10 pm

@Abhirup – “Don’t feel bad and never argue with idiots.They drag you down to their level and beat you with experience..”

lmao, great saying

By robby | July 5th, 2011 at 3:28 am

The dutch are an amazing team and it’s plain sad that they haven’t won a WC. they suck so bad at PSO. how do you explain that? you need to practise penalties and holland never seem to think about penalties. their talent is incredible, it’s mentally that they lack the edge. they have incredible talent and sometime you feel they are too cocky about their ability and think they will beat everyone, until the reality sinks in that they will probably lose to anyone in a WC or euro championship final. how sad to lose to a shit team like spain even whilst dominating so much in the final? the team is pretty good. afellay, elia, huntelaar, sneijder, VDV, stekelenburg are all world class talent with very good players in kuyt, RVP. this team has the potential to beat anyone in the euros in 2012. i feel that a final b/w germany and netherlands of italia v netherlands is most likely. holland will be in that final IMO. but it will be sad to see them lose another final. how do you dutch people and dutch fans handle so many dutch failures. you get a heart attack every time the dutch mess up another final they reach in after making everyone else look like amateurs even against brazil. well all the best to the oranje. the teams to beat to win euro 2012, germany and the italians for holland. we’ll see if they can finally win something.

By Alex | July 5th, 2011 at 5:45 am

Well, In my opinion we should have at least one World cup in the trophy room… and I blame Cruijff and co for not having gotten that one. It was a sure thing, but they managed to come to the pitch like veterans playing a sundaymorning match..

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