This World Cup gets more dramatic by the day. Two goals in the last six minutes, one of them a penalty in the dying moments, sent Holland through to the quarter-finals. Wesley Sneijder and Klaas-Jan Huntelaar scored them. Huntelaar had come on as a substitute for Robin van Persie and made a decisive contribution, but no-one had been so significant as Arjen Robben. He it was who sprinted towards the end of the stadium clutching his fists at the full time whistle. It was a run he had made over and over and over; he had done the most to drag the Dutch into this game and back into the World Cup.
Huntelaar produced a brilliant header from Robbens corner in the 85th minute, laying the ball into Sneijders path for the equaliser. And then he scored from a penalty that Robben had won in the very last minute. Just when Mexico appeared to be on the edge of breaking a barrier that has stood before them for 28 years and will now haunt them for four more. For the sixth successive World Cup they have reached the knock out phase and been knocked out.
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from Sport | The Guardian http://ift.tt/1lpTlGx
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