Netherlands v Spain FIFA World Cup 2010 Final: Preview
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Netherlands will play Spain in the 2010 FIFA World Cup Final, the world’s greatest sporting event, which will be held at the Soccer City stadium in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Sunday 11 July 2010. A European team is thus guaranteed to be world champions for the first time at a World Cup held outside Europe. There are two other firsts as well in this final. Neither team has previously won the World Cup, so there will be a new name on the trophy. And, perhaps more remarkably, these two teams have never played each other either in the World Cup or European Championship.
Netherlands So Far in the FIFA World Cup:
The Netherlands dumped the last South American team – Uruguay – out of the competition in the semi-finals and thus ensured a European victory. The result was popular throughout Africa after Uruguay became the most hated team on the continent for the way they knocked out Ghana in the previous round.
Netherlands did not though have this game all their own way. A wonder strike from Giovanni van Bronckhorst gave them an early lead but this was cancelled out just before half time by a long-range effort from Diego Forlan. But Uruguay looked like they were finally put to bed when the Dutch scored two goals in three minutes, the first a controversial goal by Wesley Sneijder due to suspicions of offside and the second a cracking header by Arjen Robben. Maximiliano Pereira pulled one back for Uruguay in injury time to set up a nervous few minutes for the Dutch, but they held out to win 3-2.
The Netherlands came from a goal behind to the mighty Brazil in the quarter finals to win 2-1. The Dutch had an easier Round of 16 match when they beat Slovakia 2-1 and were the first team to qualify from the group stage when they won their first two matches. Adding a third win gave them a 100 per cent record.
Spain So Far in the FIFA World Cup:
At one point during the first half of Spain’s quarter final against Germany, the growing grass was seriously vying for attention with the football for which was the more interesting. Thankfully, the game picked up in the second half culminating in a bullet of a header from Carles Puyol on seventy-three minutes to give the Spaniards their third 1-0 victory in a row in the knock-out stages of the World Cup.
Spain’s 1-0 victory over Paraguay in the quarter finals was as tight as it sounds, though it looked to have gone horribly wrong for them when Paraguay were awarded a penalty just before the hour mark. But Oscar Cardozo’s spot kick was saved by Iker Casillas and a minute later Spain were awarded a penalty of their own.
Spain looked to have taken the lead when Xabi Alonso fired in the resultant spot kick, but the referee applied the encroachment rule and Xabi Alonso’s second attempt was saved.
It took a ball hitting the post three times before going into the net for Spain to claim their victory seven minutes from time. Pedro’s initial shot bounced off the post to David Villa who’s own shot hit the same post, flew along the line and went into the goal off the opposite post.
Spain advanced to the quarter finals thanks to a 1-0 win over local neighbours Portugal in the Round of 16.
Spain started this tournament with a poor performance, losing the opening match 1-0 to Switzerland. They recovered their form in the second match when they strolled past the group’s weakest link Honduras 2-0 and then beat Chile 2-1.
Football Betting Odds For Netherlands vs Spain
Football betting tips: The bookmakers have Spain clear favourites to win this match in ninety minutes with almost all going for 11/10 so the few that have them at odds on should be avoided. For a Netherlands win, 5/2 and 11/4 are popular but 14/5 is available. Again for the draw, 9/4 and 11/5 are common but 23/10 is available.
FIFA World Cup 2010 Trivia
Netherlands are so far unbeaten, having won every match– not even a draw – but Spain did lose their opening group game. Should Spain win the final, the only unbeaten team in 2010 FIFA World Cup therefore will be New Zealand, who drew all three of their group games.
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