Persie dan Roben Cetak Empat Gol Tekuk Juara Dunia
Persie and Robben Score Twice as Dutch Stun World Champions
Editor : Ismail Gani
Translator : Novita Cahyadi
Salvador (B2B) - Man of the match pada pertandingan Belanda lawan Spanyol, Robin van Persie mengatakan hasil laga melawan La Roja seperti ´mimpi yang menjadi kenyataan´.
Pemain Manchester United ini mencetak dua gol ketika menghancurkan juara bertahan Spanyol 5-1 di laga pembuka Grup B.
Awalnya Spanyol memimpin, kemudian van Persie menyeimbangkan kedudukan dengan sundulannya. Setelah mencetak gol RvP berlari ke arah Louis van Gaal untuk merayakan.
Kepada reporter RvP memberikan sanjungan untuk hasil yang didapat Belanda.
"Ini menakjubkan dan tak dapat dijelaskan," kata van Persie seperti dilansir ESPN. "Untuk kami, ini seperti mimpi yang menjadi kenyataan dan kami harus menikmati itu begitu juga penduduk Belanda."
"Ini berkat pelatih. Dia menyiapkan kami dengan baik dan juga memprediksi bagaimana pertandingan akan berjalan. Ini menakjubkan karena ini seperti dia dan staf sudah prediksi."
Sementara Louis van Gaal mengatakan, "Saya tidak mengira akan seperti ini, pertandingan bisa saja berakhir dengan skor 6-1 atau lebih dan kami semua merasa senang."
"Ini langkah awal yang bagus, tetapi ini belum berakhir. Jika kami tidak menang di laga selanjutnya melawan Australia kami tidak akan membuat kemajuan, tetapi dengan kemenangan kami berada di posisi yang bagus."
Bakal pelatih Manchester United musim depan itu juga memuji gol RvP.
"Operan dari Daley Blind ke van Persie fantastik, penyelesaiannya juga bagus. Bagus, jika kamu bisa mencetak gol dengan cara seperti itu."
"Ketika van Persie datang ke saya itu merupakan tanda apresiasi."
Arjen Robben yang mencetak dua gol di pertandingan ini mengatakan bahwa inilah tujuan bermain bola.
"Saya pikir tidak seorang pun yang memimpikan hasil seperti ini," kata Robben. "Kami di sini untuk membuktikan diri kami. Saya pikir kami memiliki semangat tim. Itu sebabnya kami memenangkan pertandingan. Secara fisik kami bagus dan kuat juga fit."
Robben menambahkan, "Kami bermain melawan tim sepak bola terbaik untuk penguasaan bola. Tetapi kami bekerja sama dan kami tidak menyia-nyiakan kesempatan."
"Semua orang senang dan kami bertekat untuk melanjutkan itu. Ini belum selesai, kami masih di fase grup dan masih ada beberapa pertandingan yang harus dimainkan. Itu mengapa saya sangat menikmatinya, bukan di lapangan tetapi di ruang ganti."
Salvador - Robin van Persie said Friday´s result was "a dream come true" as he scored twice in the Netherlands´ 5-1 thumping of defending World champions Spain in their Group B opener.
After Spain took the lead, Van Persie equalised with a difficult looping header that he said "must be the goal of my career," then promptly ran to celebrate with manager Louis van Gaal, who is set to join him at Manchester United next season.
Van Persie gave his boss the lion´s share of the credit for the result.
"This is incredible and inexplicable," Van Persie told Voetbal International. "For us, this is a dream come true and we have to enjoy it -- everyone in Holland must, too.
"This is because of the coach. He has prepared us great and he predicted how the game would go. It´s incredible, because it was exactly as he and the staff predicted for us."
Van Gaal cut an animated figure as the goals poured in but was eager to focus minds in his post-match press conference.
"I did not expect that it would go this way, it could have been 6-1 or even more, and we had a very happy feeling," he said.
"This is a nice start, but we have nothing. If we do not win our next game against Australia we have made no progress, but now we are obviously in a good position."
And the Dutch manager had nothing but nice things to say about his striker´s remarkable equliser.
"The pass from Daley Blind for Van Persie was fantastic, the finish was great. There was so much feeling. If you can make a goal in that way it´s great ... really fantastic."
"It was great that [Van Persie] came to me. That is a sign of appreciation and that appreciation is mutual."
Arjen Robben also recorded a brace in the highly anticipated game, which he cited as "why you play football."
"I think nobody has dreamed about a result like this, so it was a great game," Robben said. "We are here to show ourselves. I think we have a very good character in the team, very good team spirit. That´s why we won the game today. We are physical, very good, we are strong, we are fit.
"We played against maybe the best football-playing team [for] ball possession. But we kept together and we got our chances and in the second half we killed it off and it was a deserved win.
"Everybody was happy, but at the same time everybody said ´Hey, we continue. It´s not done yet, we are still in the group phase and there are still a few games to play.´ That´s what I enjoyed the most -- not on the pitch, but now in the dressing room."
