i think van gaal's mistake was his "hero-sub" of tim krul the match before... i said it then that i don't like it and i still don't...

sure, it looked good and he got his praise for it but it might have backfired yesterday... cillessen was not amused vs. costa rica, he obviously was not informed this would happen before the game.
and you never know what something like this can do to a player mentally. i think from a psychological point of view, holland and cillissen went into yesterday's penalty shootout with a huge disadvantage.

could still have gone either way, there is always quite some luck involved but this was true for their first penalty shootout when everyone admired van gaal's genius...

Vlaar who takes firt penalty was stupid also lol..

Why not Robben first? or Huntelaar? a good penalty taker

who would have thought holland will make it into the semis before the wc?

van gaal has overperformed....

true

I don't really get all the hate.
It's not like the majority of people were thinking that the Netherlands fight for a spot in the final (and only losing it in a penalty shootout against Argentina).

stupid coach

"stupid coach"

Van gaals mistake was in the pk's? That's kind of reaching.

The players had every reason to score in 120 mins and couldn't produce. Then all of a sudden it's Van Gaals fault.

oh man this forum really....

Shitty Lolland supporters still crying after his team stayed back with 5 defenders + 2 def. mid. 110/120 minutes.

Shut up really, nobody cares. Crying won't get you a better peno kicker or a world cup.

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That's thick coming from you. Even USA gone further in the history of the WC

This post was edited by excellence on Jul 10 2014 04:00pm