The Quarterfinals Are Over
And they were uniformly pathetic.
Today’s results:
Argentina 1-0 Belgium
Netherlands 0(4)-0(3) Costa Rica
In the first game Belgium triple-teamed Lionel Messi which gave the rest of the Argentine offense the opportunity to mostly miss the goal. Fortunately Higuain managed to hit it at 8 minutes in so the game was over after 90 minutes.
Messi is a world class player, but you can’t use three defenders to mark him without opening up space for his team.
The second game was worse. The Netherlands controlled the ball two-thirds of the time, but simply couldn’t find the net. This does not bode well for the Orange against the White & Sky-Blue of Argentina.
The final will be between the teams that figure out that the purpose of the game is to put the ball into the net.
