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Monday, 7 July 2014

World Cup Match Day 21






The day started with Argentina taking on Belgium , Argentina were looking to qualify for the semi finals since 1978. The game started of with the Argentineans looking to unsettle their opponents early in the game with di maria and messi combining well. Their break came when di maria’s pass to Higuian flicked of a Belgian defender and falling sweetly for the striker who shot the ball pass keeper courtois, this meant that was only the third goal courtois has conceded in the tournament and that was higuians first in the tournament. The Belgians from that point struggled as the dark horses of the tournament only came close with vertonghen header in the first half.
The second half resulted in the same occurrence, origi the young talent failed to shine again and lukaku was brought on. Messi came close in the with a one on one with courtois but was denied. This meant Messi hadn’t scored against courtois in 8 straight matches. Belgium also came close through lukaku but his pass was prevented. The game ended 1-0 and this meant Argentina were in the semi finals.


The highlights,



Later on in the day Netherlands took on Costa Rica, this game was said to be an easy task for the dutch in the opinion of many pundits and fans. Little did we know Costa Rica had different ideas.  The game was full of chances in the first and second half with sniedjer hitting the post twice in the game. No goals were scored as the game went to a very nervy extra time and then penalties. But before the penalties van gaal made a crucial change by bringing on Tim krul for the penalty shot out and it proved crucial indeed as krul made two penalty saves as the shot out ended 4-3 in favor of the dutch, this was their first penalty shot out win in their world cup history.

 Here are the highlights, 








 Here are some reactions from fans,


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