Netherlands vs Argentina

Date
Wed 9th July 2014 (UTC)
Wed 9th July 2014 (Local)

Timestamp
2014-07-09T17:00:00

Time

17:00:00 UTC

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League
FIFA World Cup

Season
2014

Round
150

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Location
São Paulo
Brazil
Arena Corinthians
(63,267 Attendance)

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Home Team Lineup

Sneijder	Jong	Wijnaldum
Vrij	Vlaar	Indi
Robben	Persie	Cillessen
Blind	Kuyt

Away Team Lineup

Messi	Biglia	Mascherano
Perez	Demichelis	Garay
Higuaín	Lavezzi	Romero
Rojo	Zabaleta

Description

The two teams had met in eight previous matches, including four times in the FIFA World Cup: Netherlands won 4–0 in the second group stage of the 1974 FIFA World Cup and 2–1 in the quarter-finals of the 1998 FIFA World Cup, Argentina won 3–1 (after extra time) in the final of the 1978 FIFA World Cup, where as a group stage encounter of the 2006 FIFA World Cup ended in a 0–0 draw.

The Netherlands made one change to their starting line-up from their quarter-final, with Nigel de Jong returning from injury to replace Memphis Depay, while Argentina made two changes, with Marcos Rojo returning from suspension to replace José María Basanta and Enzo Pérez replacing the injured Di María. The match finished 0–0 after extra-time with very little chances as both sides cancelled each other out. In the penalty shoot-out, Sergio Romero saved the first penalty from Ron Vlaar diving to his left and the fifth penalty of the shoot-out from Wesley Sneijder when he dived high to his right. Argentina scored all of their four penalties to win 4–2. Maxi Rodríguez scored the decisive fourth penalty, shooting to Dutch goalkeeper Jasper Cillessen's right to send Argentina into the final, where they would face Germany, while the Netherlands had to settle for the third-place play-off against Brazil.

This was the first World Cup semi-final to end in a goalless draw. Argentina won their fourth World Cup penalty shoot-out, tied with Germany for most wins, and were involved in their fifth World Cup shoot-out, a record for any nation.