[SonicFan]

Originally Posted by Elle.

they did play with flair. they play like no other country do, they're not afraid to stick to what they do best, whoever they're playing. they did the same against Germany.. took it to the them and it paid off. if Holland won by playing like they did i would have been disappointed.

a good tactic? what??.. lol. sorry but i don't see how you can say that's good. they have decent players who CAN play football but they decided to throw that out the window and hack their way to victory which just doesn't work when you're playing a team like Spain.

he missed a few Spanish dives, fair enough.. but no ref is perfect and he went a little too easy on a few dutch challenges so it evens out.

Four 1-0 wins says it all really. They held it up in midfield and when scored sat back on their lead. Reminded me of 90s Arsenal.

It was a good tactic, if Spain are better technical players then the Dutch should, and did, be physical with Spain. The problem is that the game has been weighted in favour of forwards for years and now tackling is largely frowned upon-look at the new ball and goalkeeping errors