Quote Originally Posted by Darky
Congrats to Italy for continueing into the quarters, should be a really interesting match. Spain vs Italy if both teams manage to play at their best level it should be awesome to watch. Just have to wait now if we face Sweden or Russia. And i hope we'd face Italy again in the semi's. If both make it that is.

And i'm so glad we showed our sportmanship and still beat Romania, i'd hate for italy to go out by us taking it easy. And you really can't talk about sending out a second string team, still so much quality in it. Biggest miss would've been van der Vaart and Sneijder the others i would say are almost even.
Yeah I agree, the Dutch DID have quality players playing, which makes me happy with Van Basten. Between Robben, Kuyt, Van Persie and Huntelaar, I was feeling very optimistic about their performance.
Sweden going through would set the stage for some amazing quarter final match ups so I hope they make it. And yeah, also hoping for an Italy vs Netherlands rematch. That will be sweet! But I am not going to get ahead of myself, the match with Spain will be very tough.

Also, Portugals chances are pretty good, but personally I am not rooting for them. I don't like Ronaldo.