The Dutch football team, led from the bench by the experienced strategist Luis van Gaal, was eliminated last night after the Argentines executed penalties better.
The coach of the Dutch national football team, Luis van Gaal, said that the players practiced penalty kicks all year, but that was of no use to them last night against Argentina.
“During the whole year, we practiced penalties and despite that, we didn’t succeed, it’s a shame. As a coach, I want to have everything under control. That’s why I asked the players to take penalties in their clubs, they all did it. But if you miss two, you won’t win, that was clear to us right away. There were controversial decisions, but I won’t say that we lost because of the referees, not at all,’ said Van Gaal for the Dutch public service.
Argentina’s soccer players qualified for the semi-finals of the World Cup in Qatar last night, as they beat the Netherlands 6:5 after a penalty shootout. After the regular 90th minutes and extra time, the score was 2:2, and after penalty kicks, Argentina was better with 4:3.
In the first semi-final of the Mundial in Qatar on December 13, Argentina and Croatia will meet, which yesterday, before the match between the Netherlands and Argentina, eliminated Brazil, also after a better penalty shootout.
