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The Netherlands have great strikers... but they are only playing one. They are depriving themselves of their best qualities and shooting themselves in the foot.

You have to sometimes shoot from the second row, that's all football. So you have to be a bit more flexible.

He shouldn't have resigned over that game. It was not a bad performance; in fact it was quite a good one for England. I would not have resigned under those circumstances.

No one wanted to fall back behind so both teams wated for a mistake from the other.

Germany needs to have a handicap, like in golf. They ought to start each match with two goals in advance to their opposition.

Possession means nothing when the opponent takes its chances