2014 FIFA World Cup Bronze Winners Holland Defeated by Iceland in Euro Cup Qualifiers
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Nine points, eight goals and a clean net are the results of Icelands first three games in the 2016 Euro Cup qualifiers.
The Icelandic national team won one of it's biggest victories last night in a home match against FIFA World Cup semi-finalists Holland, 2-0. Both goals were scored by Gylfi Sigurðsson, the first in a penalty 10 minutes in and the second after a corner kick from Emil Hallfreðsson on the 42nd minute. The Icelandic defense proved to be impenetrable in the -2°C conditions, leaving Holland zero points to be had from the match.
Hollands star player, Arjen Robben, praised the Icelandic defense and said that the Icelandic performance did not surprise them, as they knew beforehand that they had a strong team.
Icelands team is now ranked at 34th on FIFA's world ranking list, having been well down below the 100's only two years ago. Meanwhile, Holland has gone down one place, from 3rd to 4th.
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Man of the match, Gylfi Sigurðsson
Dutch team in shambles, we knew that already. Iceland's team is strong. No real surprise. I'm more surprised at Poland beating Germany last week.
[QUOTE=BuffaloBill;46230805]Dutch team in shambles, we knew that already. Iceland's team is strong. No real surprise. I'm more surprised at Poland beating Germany last week.[/QUOTE]
Why are you so surprised about it? Many good players left after we won the world cup, so I'm not surprised at all about our team not doing that great.
This however is something completely different as Poland actually has a pretty good team, but this... it's Iceland
Well no shit, the current trainer is like "Just do whatever you like to do", where is Admiral Van Gaal when you need him. Also [URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE_IUPInEuc"]ffs[/URL]
[QUOTE=darth-veger;46231069]Also [URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE_IUPInEuc"]ffs[/URL][/QUOTE]
people almost always refer to the national team as holland
[QUOTE=darth-veger;46231069]Well no shit, the current trainer is like "Just do whatever you like to do", where is Admiral Van Gaal when you need him. Also [URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE_IUPInEuc"]ffs[/URL][/QUOTE]
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Jesus christ. While I'm not one for soccer I'm still surprised we are climbing to the top at such a rate.
While watching the Wales Cyphrus game yesterday I had to make sure they didn't mess up when they said Iceland was in the lead 2-0.
[QUOTE=BuffaloBill;46230805]Dutch team in shambles, we knew that already. Iceland's team is strong. No real surprise. I'm more surprised at Poland beating Germany last week.[/QUOTE]
The German players have become a bit overconfident and don't want to admit that the world champions are actually fallible as well. I honestly can't say I'm surprised that they're struggling right now.
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