The former Liverpool ace has expressed optimism regarding the Oranje’s chances of qualifying to the Euro 2012 quarter-finals, and has urged his team-mates to put in their best performance against Portugal.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Liverpool-c39809 ace has stressed that the Oranje can still make it through to the next phase
of the competition in http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Ukraine-c3032.
The Flying Dutchmen’s back-to-back defeats at the hands of http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Denmark-c2884 and Germany respectively, have left them on the brink of elimination from the competition.
However, the 2010 World Cup runners-up will be making progression to quarter-finals, if they manage to beat Portugal by at least two-goal margin while the Germans claim a victory over the Danes. The 31-year-old has urged his team-mates
to put in a decent performance against A Seleccao.
“Everyone was very disappointed afterwards. We had a different start to this tournament in mind. We must now deliver a top performance against http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Job-c18684, then we can still progress to the next round”, Kuyt
was quoted as saying to the Dutch media.
Despite starting impressively in Kharkiv against Die Mannschaft, the Oranje failed to convert their goal-scoring opportunities, and were 1-0 down in the 24th minute when Mario Gomez’s right-footed shot found the bottom
left corner of the net.
Seven minutes before the half-time, the Bayern Munich striker found the net again to double his side’s advantage. http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Robin-van-Persie-c31380 managed to pull one goal back in the 73rd minute, but it was not enough to change the
outcome of the game.
Kuyt admitted that his side failed to score early on, and the Germans took full advantage of their missed opportunities.
“We got two good opportunities, but then their [Germany's] first chance was an instant goal. We really had to continue in the same footing, but we couldn't. We then went all out in our play, and Robin [van Persie] scored a beautiful
goal. If we had been more compact, we could have helped each other more”, the former http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Feyenoord-c39258 attacker concluded.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Netherlands-c753 will lock horns against Portugal on June 17.
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