The Dark Horse Posted July 9, 2010 Share Posted July 9, 2010 Real Madrid rejects Robben, Sneijder thrive for Dutch By Ryland James (AFP) – 2 days ago CAPE TOWN — Real Madrid rejects Arjen Robben and Wesley Sneijder once again showed the Spanish giants what they are missing as the Dutch dynamos helped book the Netherlands a place in Sunday's World Cup final. The pair have been in sparkling form in South Africa and their second-half goals within three minutes of each other sealed Holland's 3-2 win over Uruguay in Tuesday's semi-final. After captain Giovanni van Bronckhorst opened the scoring with an 18th-minute thunderbolt, Bayern Munich's Robben and man-of-the-match Sneijder combined to floor the South Americans. Uruguay captain Diego Forlan had given the Dutch a few nervous moments with his equaliser just before the half-time break, but Real's former stars made sure the Oranje will contest Sunday's final at Johannesburg's Soccer City. First, Inter Milan's Sneijder slammed home his shot on 70 minutes which took a deflection off a Uruguay defender and rolled between Robin van Persie's legs to put the Dutch 2-1 up. Then Robben, who has brushed off a thigh injury he suffered in a pre-World Cup warm-up, scored with a rare header just three minutes later. The only blot on Sneijder's copy-book was his first-half yellow card, but the Dutch were not to be denied despite Maxi Pereira's consolation goal just before the final whistle. "It was a hard match, but all that is forgotten now and we are in the final," said Sneijder, who now has five goals at the tournament. "The most important thing now is to win. We are so close. There is nothing bigger than the World Cup." Sneijder and Robben could now be returning to Munich and Milan as potential world champions after being forced out of Madrid to make way for star signings Cristiano Ronaldo, Kaka and Xabi Alonso. Neither wanted to leave, but Real's loss turned out to be Bayern and Inter's gain as the pair were instrumental in their teams' meeting, ironically, back at the Bernabeu for May's Champions League final which Inter won 2-0. Robben's transfer to Bayern cost 24 million euros, but he immediately repaid the Bavarian giants faith with two goals in his first game for the Germans and was their star player on the way to winning the Bundesliga and German Cup. His trademark runs down the wing saw him score 20 goals in all competitions on the way to Germany's domestic double. Likewise, Sneijder's has been inspirational at Inter and his vision, passing and power-packed free-kicks have brought a new dimension to the Italian's attacking play. He has carried his form to South Africa with his 15 million euros transfer looking a snip. The pair now have a chance to help Holland to their first World Cup title. The Netherlands are breaking records with every game. If they can win Sunday's final, they will become only the second team to record a perfect World Cup campaign after Brazil in 1970, by winning every qualification and finals match. http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iHavDKri8PTiTlh7e_TcoOJKaJPw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lonestarranger Posted July 10, 2010 Share Posted July 10, 2010 Robben would really have been a steal.. He's still with Bayern then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dark Horse Posted July 10, 2010 Author Share Posted July 10, 2010 ^yea he's with Bayern Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b555 Posted July 10, 2010 Share Posted July 10, 2010 chutiye madrid hope mourinho brings some sense into that jackass team Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunner_Mania Posted July 10, 2010 Share Posted July 10, 2010 chutiye madrid hope mourinho brings some sense into that jackass team :listen_dawg: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunner_Mania Posted July 10, 2010 Share Posted July 10, 2010 This is just sensational headline. Why only Real's miss, why not Chelsea's miss? and its not like they moved from Real to some rubbish two bit team. In hindsight you could say the same about Forlan, he was a disappointment at ManU, but has been prolific in LaLiga. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Posted July 10, 2010 Share Posted July 10, 2010 chutiye madrid hope mourinho brings some sense into that jackass team :hysterical::hysterical: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b555 Posted July 10, 2010 Share Posted July 10, 2010 :hysterical::hysterical: its not that u just make fat ass signings and big ass opening ceremonies for those players or watever u call those parties u gotta have a good manager and team play too the way they performed this season is tooo shytee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Sharma Posted July 11, 2010 Share Posted July 11, 2010 its not that u just make fat ass signings and big ass opening ceremonies for those players or watever u call those parties u gotta have a good manager and team play too the way they performed this season is tooo shytee Are you kidding me? They got 96 points in La Liga and ended up in the second place. How many times would you see that happening? Barca never looked like they are running away with the title throughout the season. Yes, they did suck in CL, but they would have won La Liga if not for Barca's outstanding season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Posted July 11, 2010 Share Posted July 11, 2010 its not that u just make fat ass signings and big ass opening ceremonies for those players or watever u call those parties u gotta have a good manager and team play too the way they performed this season is tooo shytee You know wat? I dont hate the club. But hate their transfer policy. Theirs and Chealskis transfer policy suck. Thats why though Chelsea have done well last year Real still fails to perform. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IKnowU Posted July 11, 2010 Share Posted July 11, 2010 You know wat? I dont hate the club. But hate their transfer policy. Theirs and Chealskis transfer policy suck. Thats why though Chelsea have done well last year Real still fails to perform. :hitler: Who did they bring last year to make them better and win the EPL????? When you compare Chelsea to Real, CHelsea only buy when they need to and also spend wisely if given a chance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Posted July 12, 2010 Share Posted July 12, 2010 :hitler: Who did they bring last year to make them better and win the EPL????? When you compare Chelsea to Real, CHelsea only buy when they need to and also spend wisely if given a chance. Well Chealsea are BPL's Madrid :--D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IKnowU Posted July 12, 2010 Share Posted July 12, 2010 Well Chealsea are BPL's Madrid :--D :headshake: Man city :whack: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunner_Mania Posted July 12, 2010 Share Posted July 12, 2010 Well Chealsea are BPL's Madrid :--D were. They just got upstaged by the new boys on the blue side of your town:P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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