Netherlands 2-2 England Highlights

August 12th, 2009 | by: Daryl |

Bit of a weird game. We looked decent going forward, but made two absolutely woeful errors in defence. First Rio Ferdinand gave the ball away, and then stood back to see what would happen. A Dirk Kuyt goal was what happened.

Next it was Gareth Barry’s turn to pass the ball directly to an Oranje shirt while under zero pressure. Robert Green saved from Arjen Robben but Rafel van der Vaart scored the rebound. 2-0.

But then Jermain Defoe came on at half-time, and four minutes later had the ball in the back of the net. Just under 30 minutes later he did it again. So thank you thank you for Jermain Defoe. Unless you’re Michael Owen of course, in which case the little Spurs striker is making you look redundant.

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Hopefully, Defoe has that silly goal scoring nonsense worked out of him for the week.
Jack

We would’ve won with ease having James or Hart been at the goal. It’s also needless to say our defense need to stop losing focus in moments like Holland’s goals. Rio was lucky it was only a friendly. This crap has to stop in order for us to be the real contenders next summer. But I wouldn’t worry, after those two blunders Holland barely touched the ball. Pretty much the only good goal of the game was Defoe’s first with a beautiful pass by Lampard, and Capello’s really got the team working. Besides the substitutions, our spirit to bounce back, away to the 3rd ranked team in the world would never have been found with Steve Mcclaren. Ok, not the best example, but still…