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Originally Posted by _slavo_
you sure have a better team and your guys look in a much better shape than the sorry-ass primadonas from Italy.
I sense a good match.
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Hopefully it'll be a good match, yes.
To be fair, it would be embarassing for the Dutch to go out against Slovakia, but I hope there's no underestimation sneaking into the squad. Too many people around me are already talking about "the quarterfinal vs Brazil". I don't like that at all.
There shouldn't be any reason for underestimation either. Slovakia knocked out the defending world champions and have nothing to lose this game, the Dutch haven't been that convincing so far in this tournament and during the last two tournaments (2006, 2008) Holland went out straight in the first knock-out game after cruising through the group phase, so I'm not entirely confident. Not to mention the referee is the same idiot who was also in charge of the Germany v Serbia game, so it's not unlikely that there will be plenty of silly yellow cards given out for nothing. Whoever progresses today, any suspensions will be very costly when you have to play Brazil (very likely) next.