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Paul the Octopus (26 January 2008 [1] – 26 October 2010) was a common octopus who predicted the results of international association football matches. Accurate predictions in the 2010 World Cup brought him worldwide attention as an animal oracle.
His prediction later proved to be correct. For the quarter-finals Mani guessed the four winners of the matches correctly – Spain, Germany, Uruguay and Netherlands. [6] In the semi-finals, he predicted that Uruguay would beat Netherlands and Spain would defeat Germany, thereby leading to a Uruguay vs. Spain final.
The Netherlands would go on to lose the semi-finals against Denmark, who then defeated Germany in the final. The next competitive match between the two nations came at UEFA Euro 2004 in Portugal. The result was a 1–1 draw, with the Netherlands progressing to the knockout stages and Germany failing to do so.
The Germany–Netherlands football rivalry is one of the few longstanding football rivalries at a national level.
And now the Netherlands has gold for the first time in more than two decades. Duco Telgenkamp scored the golden goal in the shootout to give the Dutch the title at the Paris Games with a 2-1 ...
England v Netherlands prediction 19:50 , Mike Jones England haven’t been the tournament’s great entertainers but may be drawn into a more attack-minded game simply because their Dutch ...
The match was contested by the Netherlands and West Germany, with West Germany winning 2–1. The Netherlands opened the scoring via a Johan Neeskens penalty in the second minute, only for Paul Breitner to equalise with another penalty in the 25th minute before Gerd Müller scored the winning goal in the 43rd minute, claiming West Germany's ...
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