Both of the sides in the Brazil v Netherlands match this Saturday evening have suffered World Cup heartbreak as they were beaten in the semi finals by Germany and Argentina, but which side will bounce back best in the third/fourth place playoff? Our World Cup expert looks at the top Brazil v Netherlands stats before the match. Brazil v Netherlands Stats This third/fourth place playoff match will see the 12th ever meeting of Brazil and Netherlands. The most common result has been the draw with the sides ending level on five occasions, while both sides have won three matches each. The teams have met on four occasions at the World Cup with the Netherlands having the better of the results with wins at the Quarter Final stage in 2010 and the group stage in 1974. Brazil won at the last eight stage in 1994, while they also progressed on penalties four years later at the semi final stage at France ’98 after the sides finished 1-1 after 120 minutes. There have been just two meetings between these teams since we moved into the 21st century with the Dutch winning 2-1 in South Africa four years ago and there being a 0-0 draw in 2011. The total 11 matches have seen 30 goals with the amounts split evenly between the two teams. Wesley Sneijder is the only man in the two 23 man squads to have scored against the other side in this third/fourth place playoff following his brace at the 2010 World Cup following Robinho’s opener. At the 2014 World Cup the Netherlands are the better side both going forwards and backwards. They have scored one more goal, at 12, than Brazil and they have conceded just four compared to 11 for Brazil. The Netherlands have kept three clean sheets in their six matches and Brazil have just a single clean sheet to their name. Brazil, however, have gone behind just once in a match so far while the Dutch have trailed to both Spain and Mexico before turning things around. As well as this the Dutch are harder working and better at passing the hosts coming into the last game of the tournament for both sides. At 118.9kms covered per match they have averaged 11.8kms more each game than the Brazilians. At 2,687 completed passes they have outdone the hosts of the 2014 World Cup by 438 matches and have an 80% completion rate to Brazil’s 70%. The Estádio Nacional Mané Garrincha in Brasilia has seen six matches at the 2014 World Cup so far and there have been 17 goals scored in these games. Cameroon 1-4 Brazil in the host’s first visit to the capital is the highest scoring match played on this pitch. Three of the other five games have seen at least three goals with both sides scoring, but the last two matches of France v Nigeria and Argentina v Belgium have yielded just three goals. If you would like to check out more about match then head to the GR88 (www.gr88.eu.com).

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Both of the sides in the Brazil v Netherlands match this Saturday evening have suffered World Cup
heartbreak as they were beaten in the semi finals by Germany and Argentina, but which side will
bounce back best in the third/fourth place playoff? Our World Cup expert looks at the top Brazil v
Netherlands stats before the match.
This third/fourth place playoff match will see the 12th ever meeting of Brazil and Netherlands. The
most common result has been the draw with the sides ending level on five occasions, while both
sides have won three matches each.
The teams have met on four occasions at the World Cup with the Netherlands having the better of
the results with wins at the Quarter Final stage in 2010 and the group stage in 1974. Brazil won at
the last eight stage in 1994, while they also progressed on penalties four years later at the semi
final stage at France ’98 after the sides finished 1-1 after 120 minutes.
There have been just two meetings between these teams since we moved into the 21st century
with the Dutch winning 2-1 in South Africa four years ago and there being a 0-0 draw in 2011.
The total 11 matches have seen 30 goals with the amounts split evenly between the two teams.
Wesley Sneijder is the only man in the two 23 man squads to have scored against the other side
in this third/fourth place playoff following his brace at the 2010 World Cup following Robinho’s
opener.
At the 2014 World Cup the Netherlands are the better side both going forwards and backwards.
They have scored one more goal, at 12, than Brazil and they have conceded just four compared to
11 for Brazil.
The Netherlands have kept three clean sheets in their six matches and Brazil have just a single
clean sheet to their name. Brazil, however, have gone behind just once in a match so far while the
Dutch have trailed to both Spain and Mexico before turning things around.
As well as this the Dutch are harder working and better at passing the hosts coming into the last
game of the tournament for both sides. At 118.9kms covered per match they have averaged
11.8kms more each game than the Brazilians. At 2,687 completed passes they have outdone the
hosts of the 2014 World Cup by 438 matches and have an 80% completion rate to Brazil’s 70%.
The Estádio Nacional Mané Garrincha in Brasilia has seen six matches at the 2014 World Cup so
far and there have been 17 goals scored in these games.
Cameroon 1-4 Brazil in the host’s first visit to the capital is the highest scoring match played on
this pitch. Three of the other five games have seen at least three goals with both sides scoring,
but the last two matches of France v Nigeria and Argentina v Belgium have yielded just three
goals.
Thoughts:
As the below GR88.com Brazil v Netherlands betting odds show it is the host nation that are favoured to
win the match, but can they really bounce back from that 7-1 thumping at the hands of the Germans in
this match that is all but a dead rubber game?
The stats suggest that this match will be much like the last meeting of these two sides at the World Cup
when Brazil took the lead and the Dutch came flying back to win 2-1. The Europeans are, after all, still
unbeaten in this tournament and with Brazil defending so poorly as well as there being plenty of goals at
the Estádio Nacional Mané Garrincha this is game is sure to provide a great spectacle for both sets of
fans in Brasilia.
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