Uruguay vs Netherlands: World Cup 2010 Live Twitter Coverage

by Jordan Yerman | July 5, 2010 at 01:59 pm

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Uruguay (URU) vs Netherlands (NED): World Cup 2010 Semifinal Action

Uruguay faces Netherlands on July 6 at 8:30pm local time (6:30pm GMT, 2:30pm EDT, 11:30am PDT) at Cape Town's Green Point Stadium. We will be providing live Twitter coverage via SCAN- just click on the widget below to see a full detail page as the 2010 World Cup semifinals get underway.

Luis Suárez may have deployed Hand of God 2.0 against Ghana to squeak Uruguay into the semifinals after a penalty shootout, but Uruguay will need a far more effective offense if they hope to get past Netherlands and into the finals. Captain Diego Logano may be too injured to play for the South American side. Should Uruguay win this game, they will compete in a World Cup final match for the first time ever.

Meanwhile, Dutch goalkeeper Maarten Stekelenburg is winding Suárez up about the handball, which will cause him to miss the game against Netherlands, calling Suárez "the best keeper in the tournament". Netherlands is unbeaten in its last 24 games.

Netherlands. Uruguay. Who you got?

Players to watch
Diego Forlan (URU) v Wesley Sneijder (NED)

Our two players to watch may not cross paths that often on the field of play, but the spotlight still falls on the respective teams’ leading scorers. Forlan shares top spot in the Celeste goalscoring list with Suarez, but the latter can only watch from the stands after his red card against Ghana. The task of piercing the Dutch defence thus falls fairly and squarely to Forlan, now up to 27 goals for his country, and whose three strikes at the current tournament have all come against African sides.

His Netherlands counterpart Sneijder also has four goals, and rates as an equally creative orchestrator of the Oranjes’ versatile forward line. The world already knew all about Sneijder’s flawless technique and visionary passing, but his lethal finishing has taken many people by surprise.