Kuyt has the first chance with a header that he does well to win but sends high and wide.ĥ min: Pavlyuchenko intercepts a loose ball and races away but his cross is cut out by De Jong. Vast swathes of orange in the crowd with a few pockets of white. Unfortunately, he's on the bench, so we'll just have to imagine how fast he is.ģ min: The stadium looks beautiful as stadia will in big nights in major tournaments. Robin van Persie is the second-fastest player at Euro 2008, reaching a top speed of 31.53km/h in the group stages. Some info on the Dutch from a genuine Dutch person: (Arjen van Doorn)"You might find the following bemusing - the Dutch anthem is actually quite odd for a national anthem- it starts off with 'Wilhelmus van Nassouwe, am I of German blood' - only to end with 'The king I always have honoured'." Consider me bemused.ġ min: A fact. Or they could just stand in their own penalty areas, while the ball sits on its own in the centre circle. Now both these sides like a bit of a counter attack so there could be a huge amount of you-go-first, no-you-go-first flirting going on. Well he might be on the bench, but he won't be coming off it. Oh, and Robben picked up a knock in training, so he won't even be on the bench. The Dutch are favourites, but I think they're due a bad game and the Russians are very good value indeed at 4-1. In the white (with a bit of red and blue) corner we have Russia, kind of OK until they blew the Swedes away with more breathtaking teamwork than an asthmatics' orgy. In the orange corner we've got Holland, imperious in the competition so far. Preamble: This tie's so got so much taste it could appear in Country Life. Subs: Gabulov, Malafeev, Vasili Berezutsky, Yanbaev, Alexei Berezutsky, Adamov, Torbinsky, Ivanov, Shirokov, Russia: 1-Igor Akinfeyev 22-Alexander Anyukov, 8-Denis Kolodin, 4-Sergei Ignashevich, 18-Yuri Zhirkov 17-Konstantin Zyryanov, 11-Sergei Semak, 20-Igor Semshov, 9-Ivan Saenko 10-Andrei Arshavin, 19-Roman Pavlyuchenko. Subs: Timmer, Stekelenburg, Heitinga, De Zeeuw, Van Persie, Robben, Melchiot, Bouma, De Cler, Huntelaar, Afellay, Vennegoor of Hesselink. Netherlands: 1-Edwin van der Sar 21-Khalid Boulahrouz, 2-Andre Ooijer, 4-Joris Mathijsen, 5-Giovanni van Bronckhorst 17-Nigel de Jong, 8-Orlando Engelaar 18-Dirk Kuyt, 23-Rafael van der Vaart, 10-Wesley Sneijder 9-Ruud van Nistelrooy.
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