Spain didn't simply drop its World Cup opener, as it did four years back to Switzerland. It viewed the Netherlands set it blazing. With a four-objective second a large portion of, the Dutch devastated one of the best sides to ever play the amusement, 5-1.
"Totally peculiar," Spain mentor Vicente del Bosque said. "I have no words."
A moment by-moment measurable breakdown of how the match of the day played out: Inside the Box.
Friday's result can't change the way that the Netherlands lost the 2010 World Cup last to Spain. At the same time there could be nothing better for the Dutch soccer hypochondrias than this trouncing. (Perceive how the World Cup would play out if nations were contending in things other than soccer.)
The Netherlands' help started the minute striker Robin van Persie dispatched himself into a swan jump. Suspended in midair, he met a 35-yard go to circle the ball home and tie the amusement at 1, simply before halftime.
He appeared to lift the weight of four years off Dutch shoulders. When they turned out for the second a large portion of, his unfancied side played at a speed that made Spain appear as though it was standing still. Van Persie included an alternate objective, Arjen Robben had two and much protector Stefan de Vrij got it on the demonstration.
"At last, it could have been five—well, it was five—yet it could have been six, seven or eight," van Persie said.
Back in the Netherlands—where trusts were faint coming into the competition fans were insanely bouncing over on the fleeting trend. (See a manual for Brazil's World Cup stadiums.)
"I'm delighted," said David Vermijs, 34, an expert from Amsterdam. "I had great trusts around a fruitful result, yet could never have longed for a complete walkover like this evening."
A great part of the fault will fall on Spain's 33-year-old goalkeeper Iker Casillas. When a brilliant kid of Spanish soccer, he probably won't begins for his club side, Real Madrid, allied amusements a dropping out with previous administrator Jose Mourinho arrived him on the seat.
On Friday, Mourinho was vindicated. Casillas was gotten out of position on no less than two objectives and presented the fourth by miscontrolling a back pass.
Arjen Robben scored two objectives. European Pressphoto Agency
Those individual failures were a preoccupation from Spain's bigger issue: a fermenting emergency of tiki-taka, the fast passing style that lifted it to the highest point of the game.
"It would be a mix-up to transform it," Spain and Barcelona midfielder Xavi said of the methodology before the amusement. "All our players have adjusted to this rationality and we're going to stay with it right to the exact end."
Spain adhered to its firearms, however the Dutch patched up. Under mentor Louis van Gaal, the group is a long ways from the self-hatred squad that lost each diversion at Euro 2012. It's a productive group set up in a 5-3-2 framework that was just presented the recent weeks.
Robben gave the Netherlands the lead for great in the 53rd moment. The third objective, when it came, wasn't as lovely. In any case by packaging home a free kick from a yard out, de Vrij made up for the prior foul on Costa, which prompted Spain's opening objective. (Xabi Alonso changed over the extra shot.)
In any case once Robben and van Persie began running wild, Spain's lead got simply an inaccessible memory. Thus did South A
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