07-17-2010, 01:54 PM
(07-16-2010, 07:45 PM)Lissa Wrote: Denmark deserved to lose that match. They played extremely dirty. And that kick to the chest by de Jongs was completely uncalled for and should have been red carded no matter what, he wasn't trying to get to the ball, he was trying to take the Spaniard out of the game. That is a red card offense no matter how much hurt he put on the Spaniard.
Spain deserved that win way more than Denmark did.
As I said before, the problem of the dutch is not being dirt enough.
And what I call dirty is making fauls that the referee doesnot see.
Same happened 4 years ago against portugal and in 1994 and 1998 against Brazil. We will end up losing those matches.
The attack by de Jong was more stupid than dirty....I really can't think of any reason why he wanted to do that. If, as you suggest, he wanted to kick a spaniard out of the game, he could have better done in on one of the better players. Because if that was his goal and he succeeded he would indeed have a red card and another Spaniard would enter the game (probably Fabregas who is a better player than the victim).
The dutch made more fauls but I think the Spaniards made more fouls that were not punished. E.g. the double fake fall to the ground by Xavi and Iniesta in the dutch penalty area. Which were correctly not awarded a penalty but if the ref was doing a good game he would both give them a yellow card.
Also the Spanish goal fell because of a referee error (not giving a corner after not 1 but 2 spanish players touched the ball (and of course the Spanish players didn't tell the ref they did). Of course also the dutch wouldn't have admitted that during the game, but please spare me the stories that Spain played a clean game and wanted to win. They were just better in commiting fauls without being punished.
And for the dutch missing de Jong wth a red card wouldn't be so bad as for Spain to miss Iniesta.
I saw this coming however; many times during this tournament, referees failed to see or punish 'natrappen'. (don't know what that is in English....kicking or hitting a player with no ball near).