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MONDAY, JUNE 30, 201418 19

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CASTELAO: ' defender (L) challenges Mexico's forward Oribe Peralta for the ball during a Round of 16 football match between Netherlands and Mexico at Castelao Stadium in Fortaleza during the 2014 FIFA World Cup yesterday. — AFP Double Dutch late show floors Mexico

FORTALEZA: The Netherlands scored twice in the injury to as he hobbled off to be replaced Cillessen then made a fine stop to prevent dos the Netherlands went in search of an equaliser. dying minutes through and a Klaas Jan by . Santos opening the scoring with a low effort. Ochoa had to come to his side’s rescue again 17 min- Huntelaar penalty to move into the quarter-finals of the Mexico’s Hector Herrera then had the clearest open- However, the Netherlands were left aggrieved just a utes from time when Robben escaped the clutches of World Cup with a 2-1 win over Mexico yesterday. ing of the first 45 minutes as he collected Oribe Peralta’s minute before the break when Robben appeared to Marquez but saw his low effort turned behind by the In a match conditioned by the baking heat and pass on the edge of the area and cut inside before drag- have been clipped by Hector Moreno inside the area. Mexican stopper. humidity in Fortaleza, Giovani dos Santos looked to ging a right-foot shot inches wide. Mexico got off to a flying start in the second-half as Dutch boss then surprisingly replaced have Mexico on the way to their first quarter-final Dutch keeper was then forced into Dos Santos held off a challenge from to captain Van Persie with Klaas Jan Huntelaar. appearance on foreign soil when he opened the scoring his first save of the afternoon by a long-range effort thump home his first international in a competitive However, his decision was to prove inspired as firstly three minutes into the second-half. from Carlos Salcido. match for two years from 25 yards. Huntelaar turned Robben’s corner in the direction of the However, Sneijder levelled with a thumping volley The Netherlands didn’t register an effort on target Oribe Peralta nearly made it 2-0 eight minutes later lurking Sneijder to power home from the edge of the from the edge of the area two minutes from time before until the 26th minute when skewed with a curling effort that Cillessen did well to claim at box on. And after Robben was adjudged by Portuguese Huntelaar converted from the spot in stoppage time wide form a narrow angle after collecting Stefan de the first attempt. Moments later it was Guillermo Ochoa referee Pedro Proenca to have been clipped by Marquez after Rafael Marquez had upended . Louis Vrij’s pass inside the area. who made an incredible stop to prevent Stefan de Vrij in the fourth minute of stoppage time, the Schalke strik- van Gaal’s men will now face Costa Rica or Greece in the Both sides were then handed the chance to cool off levelling as he turned the defender’s volley onto the er coolly stroked home the resulting penalty to elimi- last eight in Salvador on Saturday. for three minutes at the half-hour mark for the first time post from point-blank range. nate Mexico at the last 16 stage for a sixth consecutive The Netherlands had been disrupted by an early at a World Cup due to the searing temperatures. Sneijder then saw a deflected effort fly inches past as World Cup. — AFP Brilliant Rodriguez leads Colombia into last eight

RIO DE JANEIRO: James Rodriguez knocked shirt was hung up in the Uruguay changing cleared back to him, he headed the ball up to Luis Suarez out of the headlines with an room. Rodriguez, who was standing just outside the exquisite goal as Colombia beat Uruguay 2-0 But they endured a night of disappoint- penalty area. on Saturday to set up a World Cup quarter- ment on their return to the Maracana, scene The Colombia number 10 controlled the final against hosts . of the country’s seismic 2-1 win over Brazil in ball on his chest, turned, and unleashed a Pre-match build-up had been dominated the deciding game of the 1950 World Cup. magnificent dipping volley that crashed in off Suarez’s four-month ban for biting Italy’s “The (first) goal was 100 percent the work the crossbar. Giorgio Chiellini, but by the final whistle in Rio of the player who scored it. It was one of the Rodriguez, who has now scored in each of de Janeiro’s Maracana stadium, there was only greatest goals of this World Cup,” said his last six international games, celebrated one name on everyone’s lips. After scoring in Uruguay coach Oscar Tabarez. with appropriate abandon, screaming every group game, Rodriguez broke the dead- “We have to accept defeat, congratulate ‘Vamos!’ at the hordes of jubilant yellow-shirt- lock shortly before the half hour with a Colombia, and wish them well, as a South ed fans in the front-row seats. Uruguay set breath-taking strike, chesting the ball down American team, in the rest of the tourna- about trying to wipe out the deficit, but and volleying home from 25 metres. ment.” ’s free-kick narrowly cleared The 22-year-old added Diego Forlan replaced Suarez for Uruguay, the bar and Alvaro Gonzalez was foiled by a a second early in the second half, sending him while Pekerman sprang a surprise by selecting full-length parry from Colombia goalkeeper to the top of the scorers chart with five goals two centre-forwards in Jackson Martinez and . and confirming his status as a World Cup hot Teofilo Gutierrez. Colombia doubled their lead five minutes property. Although Martinez lined up on the left into the second half with a fine team goal. Rodriguez’s goals took Colombia into the flank, there was no lack of ambition to Pablo Armero’s deep left-wing cross was quarter-finals for the first time, meaning the Colombia’s play. and Juan headed down by Cuadrado and Rodriguez northern Brazilian city of Fortaleza will turn Zuniga set the tone with purposeful early swept home his second of the night from completely yellow when Jose Pekerman’s side runs at the Uruguay defence, with one of the close range. play the hosts on July 4. On the prospect of latter’s raids culminating in a low shot that Ospina kept Uruguay at bay thereafter, par- facing Brazil, Rodriguez said: “They’re a tough Fernando Muslera gathered at the second rying shots from Gonzalez, Cristian Rodriguez team, they have great players, and they also attempt. and Cavani and saving bravely from Maxi have their history. Uruguay were content to cede possession Pereira. Uruguay’s frustration began to tell, “But we have to go out onto the pitch look- to their opponents, sitting deep on the edge with substitute Gaston Ramirez booked for a ing to win, as we’ve always done.” Uruguay’s of their own box, but their defences were wild kick at Armero. fans sported Suarez masks and brandished breached in the 28th minute by a goal of jaw- Four years after reaching the semi-finals in banners in support of their wayward star, who dropping splendour. , Uruguay’s World Cup ended at RIO DE JANEIRO: Uruguay’s Cristian Rodriguez (left) and Colombia’s go for a flew home to Montevideo on Friday, while his After Abel Aguilar saw a chipped pass the scene of their greatest triumph. — AFP header during their World Cup round of 16 soccer match at Maracana Stadium. — AP