WAYNE Hennessey ensured Wales's 2-0 defeat to Holland today didn't stretch to the 7-1 hiding last time the two teams met, but the Dutch have more pressing problems than an able Welsh goalkeeper with blonde highlights.
Holland's team is brimming with footballing highlights, it's the hair they are lacking. Main men Wesley Sneijder and Arjen Robben are well on the way to perfecting the aerodynamic look of Lee Carsley and fellow Real Madrid marksman Ruudd van Nistelrooy and midfielder Rafael van der Vaart look thin on top.
The dreadlocked Mario Melchiot aside, all the above will be reaching for additional sun cream in the coming month but will no doubt outshine the dubious tints of players like Hennessey as and when goalkeepers pick their freekicks out of the back of the net.
Today they served up another feast of attacking play, Robben slotting home the first after skinning Chris Gunter and Lewin Nyatanga.
Wesley Sneijder curled home a second-half free-kick to complete the score-line although the rest of the match resembled a coconut shy with the entire Dutch team lining up to test Hennessey and ensure Premiership scouts following the talented Welsh keeper value for money.
They may have been slow to get going but Holland, yet again, look set to be one of the favourites of the tournament. Whether they can deliver on the big stage still remains to be seen. Like England, the Dutch are perennial under achievers although they did win the European Championship in 1988, courtesy of this moment of brilliance:
Holland's team is brimming with footballing highlights, it's the hair they are lacking. Main men Wesley Sneijder and Arjen Robben are well on the way to perfecting the aerodynamic look of Lee Carsley and fellow Real Madrid marksman Ruudd van Nistelrooy and midfielder Rafael van der Vaart look thin on top.
The dreadlocked Mario Melchiot aside, all the above will be reaching for additional sun cream in the coming month but will no doubt outshine the dubious tints of players like Hennessey as and when goalkeepers pick their freekicks out of the back of the net.
Today they served up another feast of attacking play, Robben slotting home the first after skinning Chris Gunter and Lewin Nyatanga.
Wesley Sneijder curled home a second-half free-kick to complete the score-line although the rest of the match resembled a coconut shy with the entire Dutch team lining up to test Hennessey and ensure Premiership scouts following the talented Welsh keeper value for money.
They may have been slow to get going but Holland, yet again, look set to be one of the favourites of the tournament. Whether they can deliver on the big stage still remains to be seen. Like England, the Dutch are perennial under achievers although they did win the European Championship in 1988, courtesy of this moment of brilliance:
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