[R]- Netherlands vs Cote d'Ivoire

[arsham]

19' 0-0

[arsham]

23' van persi scored, 1-0 for hollland

[Pharaoh]

What a strike from Van Persie. And this referee is an idiot so far. Just booked an Ivory Coast player for a dive from Van Bommel. He wasn't even touched. I've noticed that as a weakness from South American referees... the inability to tell a dive from a legitimate foul.

And Ruud makes it 2-0. Disastrous start for CIV.

[arsham]

2-0, 33'

[arsham]

it's 2-1

[Pharaoh]

Miserable, miserable officiating. Three yellow cards, all of them b.s.

[Simorgh]

I swear Cote d'Ivoire are the unluckiest team ever.

[MoJo23]

Halftime:

Ivory Coast 1-2 Netherlands

All 3 goals were absolutely amazing!

And i agree with Pharoah, very very poor officiating!

[ShirFarhad]

I swear Cote d'Ivoire are the unluckiest team ever.

Yes and Holland is the luckiest team ever. I have said this already a lot times. Without van der Sar they would had a lot problems to quality to this World Cup.

Van der Sar saved Hollands ass against Czech twice and Romania twice.

[police in helicopter]

[Amir H F]

Exactly they have been very very impressive, best african team by a mile! too bad they fell in such a hard group, and Drogba wont play against Serbia due to yellow card.

Final Score: Holland 2-1 Ivory Coast

[ShirFarhad]

This is for all those who said Holland is the best attacking team in the world and all other funny things.

The unluckiest team of this WC: Ivory Coast
Luckiest team: Holland

They are lucky they have been facing teams that can't finish their chances, but just like Italy which they lost 3-1 to at home Argentina has deadly finishers.

Holland will be very lucky if they even score or get a point against Argentina.

[RistonBarreto]

Its a shame that a team like Cote de Voire will have to go home while lesser teams like Sweden, Ecuador etc. will move on. I guess thats just the nature of the seeding system, nothing can be perfect. It is even more impressive that they were able to keep the Argentinians shaking until the final whistle and beat them in ball possesion as we have now seen that Argentina is the class of the tournament....We all know what CIV needs to work on before the next World Cup...a little defense in the first half and FINISHING...very unlucky.

[PersianMadrid7]

Poor Ivory Coast, it was their first time in the cups, but we all know what happened.

If this referee is officiating another game Holland will win the World Cup.

[soniq]

Arsenal player scored, no surprise