Semi final: Time for Oranje and La roja booked in final

Both matches ended with a goal difference of four team’s battle ended the episodes in the semi-final. Oranje and La Roja are lucky teams to get the one goal advantage against their opponents Uruguay and Germany.

Oranje meeting the forecast will be on stage for the first time since the end of 1974 and 1978 after defeating the giant Brazilian football. Three goals by Van Bronkhorst, Arjen Robben and Wesley Sneijder have enough to beat two goals of Uruguay by Diego Forlán and Pereira.

In contrast to the La Roja is the first time to the Final extending their success when called European champions two years ago. Ironically the only goal game by Carles Puyol after the games reach 70 minutes is equivalent to two winning goal in the Netherlands to attend the same time.

History also created the first time without former tournament champions after last time in 1978. This is also the first European team dominated the final and won outside Europe since 1930.
Oranje on the final after 32 years

The Netherlands will face Spain in the Final of the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa™ after beating Uruguay by the odd goal in five in the first of the tournament’s semi-finals at Cape Town’s Green Point Stadium.
The Dutch head to Johannesburg for their first shot at the soccer championship in 32 years after a 3-2 victory over scrappy but outmanned Uruguay on Tuesday night.
The Dutch looked short of ideas for long periods but still had the quality in front of goal when it mattered to set up an all-European final against Euro 2008 champions Spain on Sunday.
The South Americans, in their first semi-final for 30 years, were defending in depth and in numbers but that tactic did not help them when Van Bronkhorst broke the deadlock after 18 minutes
The ball was fed out to the left-flank and the veteran Feyenoord left-back had time to look up and use his trusty left foot to spank an unstoppable 35-yard shot into the top corner.
Four minute before the break Forlan equalize to 1-1 when him had hitherto been relatively subdued, but the Dutch defence made the mistake of affording him too much space 25 yards from goal – and were ruthlessly punished. Shaping to spread the ball wide, Forlan instead turned inside on his left foot and curled in a superb left-foot shot that, thanks partly to a slight deflection off the head of John Heitinga, deceived the wrong-footed Maarten Stekelenburg.
The score level at 1-1 end in 70th and 73th minute after the dutch lead the game 3-1. Sneijder’s goal came somewhat unexpectedly because Uruguay had shut down the Dutch offense for much of the second half. His left-footed shot from just inside the penalty area barely ticked the leg of defender Maximiliano Pereira and, with Robin van Persie almost deflecting it again, the ball skidded past goalkeeper Fernando Muslera.
Then Robben sent a cross from Dirk Kuyt past a flat-footed Muslera with a brilliant header. His teammates piled on in an Oranje Crush celebration, and Robben came up from it muddied and merry—and with the knowledge that, ahead 3-1, the Netherlands was likely headed to the championship match.
Instead the Dutch faced a frantic finale when, in the 92nd minute, Maxi Pereira ran on to a quickly taken free-kick, turned Eljero Ejia and curled a precise shot into the bottom corner of the net and end the game with narrow result 3-2.
The Dutch victory extent their achievement so far with 25-game unbeaten streak, including 10 straight wins. They’re not as creative as the Clockwork Oranje of the 1970s, when they lost two World Cup finals to host teams—West Germany in 1974, Argentina in 1978. Nor are they as explosive.
But they sure are good, and on the kind of roll that gives the Dutch the look of champions—with an Oranje hue, of course.
Puyol shocked killer machine to final for the first time

For all of Spain's brilliant passing in their semi-final against Germany, it was a Carles Puyol header from a corner that put La Roja into their first ever World Cup final.
Whatever the outcome at Soccer City on Sunday, there will be history made with a new name on the Trophy after Spain produced their best performance of these finals to end Germany's hopes of an eighth Final appearance and secure their first. Joachim Low’s men, by contrast, missing the suspended Thomas Muller, were unable to repeat the scintillating displays with which they swept aside England and Argentina and, as in 2006, suffered the anguish of semi-final defeat.
The game is totally control by Spanish with about 5 shot on goal out 13 shot compare by Germany killer machine just get 2 shot on goal out of 5 shot. The Germany suffered so must with the absent of Muller which not allowed to play due to two yellow card. Prior to the game, Germany killer machine score 8 goals in just two matches against England and Argentina earlier in the road to semi final.
The historic moment for Spain came in 73rd minute after from a corner by Xavi, Puyol leapt above team-mate Gerard Pique and powered a header past Neuer. Pedro could have ensured a bigger margin of victory in the closing stages but he allowed Arne Friedrich to dispossess him after bursting through in a two-on-one with substitute Torres. It did not matter in the end, Spain's third successive 1-0 win carrying them into their first Final.