Holland have qualified for the knockout stages without any internal rows of the kind that usually scar their World Cups but without much of the flair for which they are usually associated. As was the case in the opening fixture against Denmark, they had plenty of luck, this time when the Japan keeper Eiji Kawashima palmed a fierce but savable drive from Wesley Sneijder into his own net. He redeemed himself with a couple of good saves later but the Dutch were always in control even if they did not make very much of all that possession.