Until now, the Dutch team was always thought to be the Brazil of Europe, and with good reason. I still remember that fabulous team with Frank Rijkaard, Ruud Gullit, Marco Van Basten, etc. And later on, they still had a high technical level and very good players.
In this World Cup, their final match was completely unexpected and disappointing. But I admit that before that they showed some details of good football, although in general they were too far from their "illustrious predecessors". There even were some signs of smallmindedness at the match against Brazil, where they were continually complaining, to put pressure on the referee.
The aggressiveness at the final was a worked-out stratagem. Maybe the manager thought that was the only way to win the match they had. And Robben almost scored, but fortunately for us Saint Iker Casillas deflected the ball. BTW, this is what can happen when a reporter interviews her boyfriend:
