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There will be plenty of orange out at this one. The Dutch scored a 1-0 win over Serbia, et al., while Ivory Coast lost its first-ever World Cup match to Argentina, 2-1.
Both teams have strikers to watch in Arjen Robben of the Netherlands and Didier Drogba of Ivory Coast. If the Ivoirians can get a win, they have a good shot at the second round as their third match will be against woeful Serbia et. al, which played the worst match of the tournament, losing 6-0, and looked to have given up about 15 minutes in.
I'm really hoping that Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink gets in to the game. I don't know why a Dutch guy has "of" in his name. But it shows up that way in all the languages on the FIFA website.
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Netherlands, Wilhelmus van Nassouwe. Not be confused with Bill from Suffolk County.
If you prefer you call the Netherlands "Holland", but you would be wrong. You can also call Ivory Coast, "Côte d'Ivoire", in which case you would be right.
That said, they'd be better off winning.
I believe Phil Knight is putting on a very big spread for that.
Life isn't fair!
Several opportunities to score have come and gone for them...
Ivory Coast's gotta be disappointed, but man, did they play that tough.
Seedings to be decided later, but Argentina has a +7 in goal difference, so they will win the group in case of a tie.
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