World Cup Corner

The Dutch team is already on the way home while Portugal are into the quarter-finals for only the second time in their history where they will meet England. Referee Ivanov Valentin showed 16 yellow and 4 red cards during the Portugal’s 1:0 victory over Netherlands. Too bad that there wasn’t much football played.

Luiz Felipe Scolari (POR)

I feel total happiness. What I saw today from this group of players hasn’t been seen in Portugal for many years. I have never seen anybody fight so much and do so much for Portugal. We have to congratulate these players, in spite of the odd moment of excess on the part of both teams. It was an intense, controversial and difficult game.

Marco Van Basten (NED)

At half-time we told the players to be careful, because if there’s one red card, then more usually follow. The advantage we had slipped away, and when it was ten against ten, we tried to attack, but for 45 minutes we didn’t play our normal game. There was a foul every minute. It’s a shame.

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