Netherlands clinched a 90 minute victory while "Fairy tale" continues for Costa Rica

Well,world cup 2014-A football world cup in which so many talents are playing,so many surprising moments,so many legendary players are playing their last world cup but the most interesting moments are that catches your eye are exactly teams like Costa Rica,Mexico and Chile have done.Well,yesterday Netherlands was playing against Mexico and what a match we have seen.

The match started with everyone hoping for the dutch to win but it was completely a different story in field than that of what we have seen in paper.Mexico was on fire from the very first minute of the game.Most of the attacking shots were coming from the central American team and it was i must say a very tough day for the dutch defense.Its not that Netherlands were not creating any chances but the way they should have played was lacking completely.Anyhow the first half went 0-0 (Lucky Netherlands) but it was not so lucky when just after starting of second half Giovanni Dos Santos shot a blister from his left foot.Mexico continues to terrorize the Netherlands defender up-to 88th minute of the match but then suddenly the veteran Sneijder snub a quick goal and a very important goal for his side.Then in the 90+1 minute robben felled down in the penalty area thus acquiring a controversial penalty for his side. Klass Jan Huntelaar very calmly took the penalty and won the match for dutch in the dying minutes.The whole stadium broke into tears after seeing Mexico's performance(after all they came out to be the better team out of the two).

One question remains in our mind that whether that penalty was really a penalty,Did Robben dived?Anyways whatever it is all we know that Netherlands is in the next round and Mexico isn't and as we say in football scores matters the most and so it is.In the other match it was Costa Rica facing the Greece..Another team which has surprised fans and footballers all over the world with their amazing run in this World cup.No body thought that they could even qualified the group stages but by beating Uruguay and Italy and drawing their match with England they stood top in the group of death.

Now it was their first match ever in the round of sixteen and it was against Greece.From the very first minute that had to play the game like a battle of attrition and Bryan Ruiz and Campbell were playing at their peak and then Bryan did scored in the 52nd minute.It was not all over for the 2004 Euro cup Winners Greece as they always keep enough potential to shut a team down.And exactly that happened when they scored the equalizing goal in the 90th minute.It was as if a heart breaking moments for the Costa Ricans players as they were almost through to the next round but now they had to play another 30 mins to achieve their dream in the extra 30 minutes and it was no doubt that Greece was the better team but finally the match went to penalty shootout where Michael Umana scored the final penalty to win the match 5-3 against Greece and went to the quarter finals where probably they will meet Netherlands.

So,hope that the best team win is the quarter finals!

                                                                                                                               Anuttam Chatterjee