{"id":15881,"date":"2014-07-13T08:46:16","date_gmt":"2014-07-12T22:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=15881"},"modified":"2014-07-13T08:46:16","modified_gmt":"2014-07-12T22:46:16","slug":"world-cup-2014-netherlands-vs-argentina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=15881","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2014:  Netherlands vs Argentina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tagworldcup2014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15632\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tagworldcup2014.jpg\" alt=\"tagworldcup2014\" width=\"600\" height=\"75\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tagworldcup2014.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tagworldcup2014-300x37.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/nedarg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15882\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/nedarg.jpg\" alt=\"nedarg\" width=\"620\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/nedarg.jpg 620w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/nedarg-300x160.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/argned.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15883\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/argned.jpg\" alt=\"argned\" width=\"472\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/argned.jpg 472w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/argned-300x107.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 472px) 100vw, 472px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">By a strange quirk of scheduling, I haven&#8217;t seen a single Argentina game in this tournament due to their matches airing at 2am mostly.\u00a0 Fortunately, this fixture was on at 6am so I could catch the game in full (provided it didn&#8217;t go into extra time).\u00a0 After the high drama of Brazil&#8217;s meltdown, it would be interesting to see what this next fixture would give us.\u00a0 It&#8217;s Messi vs Robben.\u00a0 Europe vs South America.\u00a0 Another clash of footballing giants.\u00a0 Who would come out on top in Sao Paolo?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1&#8242; &#8211; 90&#8242;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/holdsit.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15884\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/holdsit.gif\" alt=\"holdsit\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">At that stage, I left for work.\u00a0 Twitter tells me that the game finished scoreless and Argentina advanced on penalties.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">That&#8217;s two tournaments in a row where Netherlands have come out guns blazing during the Group Stage only to play a cynical and conservative game during the Knockout Stages.\u00a0 So disappointing.\u00a0 That game was an exercise in tedium and not counting penalties, Netherlands played 240 minutes of scoreless World Cup football to finish their tournament.\u00a0 Yawn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was this a high scoring thriller to rival the drama of Brazil vs Germany?  No.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[2028,1721,504,1719],"class_list":["post-15881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-argentina","tag-netherlands","tag-world-cup","tag-world-cup-2014"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15885,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15881\/revisions\/15885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}