06-14-2014, 11:18 AM
Alan Shearer BBC Sport: "The Netherlands were sensational, it should have been seven or eight. Some of the performances - Arjen Robben, Robin van Persie and Daley Blind down that wing, they were absolutely brilliant. I have never seen that Spain back four pulled around as much as they were."
BBC Sport - World Cup 2014: Robin van Persie praise Netherlands boss
Downside, one more even half game like that and Blind will be gone from Ajax, but who cares at this point, with stuff like this:
Towards the finish, the Dutch were an unstoppable tide; the blue shirts just kept coming forward for more. Olés were their sound track but they were not satisfied to simply pass the ball, to keep it: they wanted to go on plunging the knife in, insatiable, almost sadistic. There was something about the goals, especially the fifth from Arjen Robben, that spoke of an immense superiority. Holland were enjoying this.