a delicious 4-man vertical combo releases robben on the right, but the defense recovers in time to block his shot - in the end, he was made to stray to far off the line to goal from kuijt's final lob 68'
VDV and robben work up the field like lightning - robben sends a soft final ball on a platter across to van persie, who puts it wide somehow from point blank range - he should have done much better
gio whistled in the right corner, pancu to sevre... sent on the ground to mutu, who fans on it! lol - then he falls on his second try, and ORANJE clear we counter quickly, with robben forcing a save from distance 76'
They were hoping for a miracle.. 'mutu emerged!' But oh well, it was the romanians ' troefkaart' and that went down the drain
Excellent! Great result, a win in Finland and Oranje are as good as booked for Germany even assuming a loss in Prague.
FT 2-0 my MOTM: robben van der sar - 6.5 gio - 6.5 heitinga - 6.5 opdam - 6.5 lucius - 6.5 van bommel - 5 landzaat - 5.5 van der vaart - 7 robben - 7 ruud - 6 kuijt - 7
Thanks for the pbp, Blue. Finland awaits Wednesday! casualty: Van Der Vaart who'll miss Finland but will likely be replaced by Cocu who's coming out of injury. GG
btw wednesday's macth is on foxsoccerchannel live at 3 PM ET and replayed that night - it will also be available for full match viewing at www.oranje.nl, usually an hour or two after the game ends