World Cup Report- Van Persie comes of Age Finally to IMPALE Spain

Hand raised. I take the blame. Hand raised. Thought the thirty year old with grey strands would flop AGAIN. As I watched that first half, and saw RVP wandering about in his own half, I thought this would be yet another clouded and disappointing Dutch showing. Then Blind put in that beauty....then I saw him leap like a dolphin on weed....and then we all saw one of the GOALS of the tournament.


That is a CLASSIC goal. To put it in layman terms....Van Persie CHIPPED the keeper with a DIVING header. That my friends....is FOOTBALL. From then on, Spain were shellshocked and Holland just grew even stronger and the rest....a good ol display of DUTCH counter-attacking devastation. Precise. Ruthless. Vengeful. Beautiful.

Van Persie had a lot to live up to. He was the ghost of 2010 where Robben and Sneijder (who sucks now and should be replaced) ran the show. And we all know what happened in 2012 after Van Persie came off a good season with Arsenal...his last season. I had given up on him and I wanted to see Huntelaar be given a chance. I was more interested to see what Robben and Huntelaar would do rather than Persie. But the goal.....laawwwwwd....that GOAL....


Things ain't perfect yet. Van Persie is having to do too much tracking back and there isn't enough help given to him. By help, I mean a four years younger Sneijder or a pointman that can FEED Van Persie in the way Fabregas and Giggs used to. If you've got one of the most cold-blooded finishers in the world, it is only right that you make sure he gets first-class deliveries all day errrrrr day.

With that match done and a tricky Australia and the attacking Chileans to come, Van Persie has the chance to grow in this tournament and at least give a good account of himself at a World Cup. His powers of finishing are too great to NOT be advertised on the grandest stage of them all.



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