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MEXICO COACH MIGUEL HERRERA ACCUSES ARJEN ROBBEN OF DIVING

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<b><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mexico coach Miguel Herrera raged at Arjen Robben, the referee
and FIFA after Holland's last-gasp victory took the Dutch into the World Cup
quarter-finals.</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Herrera claimed
Robben committed three dives in Sunday's last-16 clash in Fortaleza, including
for the decisive penalty, and criticised FIFA for appointing a referee from the
same continent - Portugal's Pedro Proenca - as Holland.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Oranje won 2-1
thanks to Klaas-Jan Huntelaar's stoppage-time penalty, after Wesley Sneijder's
88th-minute volley had equalised Giovani Dos Santos' goal, to set up a
quarter-final clash with Costa Rica in Salvador on Saturday.</span></div>
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Mexico had been victims of bad refereeing in their group matches against
Cameroon and Croatia as well.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"Robben did
three dives and he should have been cautioned. You should caution a guy who is
trying to cheat, and then if Robben did it again, he would be sent off."</span></div>
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<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Miguel Herrera</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He told a news
conference: "Out of the four matches here, in all of them, the refereeing
was disastrous.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"Robben did
three dives and he should have been cautioned. You should caution a guy who is
trying to cheat, and then if Robben did it again, he would be sent off.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"And why did
FIFA choose a referee from the same confederation as Holland instead of one
from South America, Asia or Africa?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"The doubtful decisions
were always against us. We have to say it in capital letters, in three matches
we had horrible refereeing. The man with the whistle knocked us.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"I want the
referee committee to take a look and that the referee goes home just like
us."</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Herrera also
blasted organisers for making the teams play in the heat and humidity of a 1pm
kick-off in Fortaleza.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He added:
"What goes against football is to have to play in these conditions. The
players were suffocated by the sun heat and the humidity."</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There was extra
time added at the end of both halves, with official cooling breaks allowed for
the players due to the extreme conditions at the Estadio Castelao.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Herrera felt his
side gave the initiative back to Louis van Gaal’s men by dropping deeper as Holland
pressed for a leveller.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He told reporters:
"We'd done really well. Then the team sits back and we start to give
chances to a team that had not done anything.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"It's a World
Cup where everything was against Mexico.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Unfortunately, we
didn't achieve what we wanted."</span></div>
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HOLLAND'S ARJEN ROBBEN SORRY FOR DIVING AGAINST MEXICO

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<b><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Arjen Robben insists he was fouled for the penalty that led to
Holland's last-gasp 2-1 win over Mexico, but apologised for diving earlier in
the match.</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Dutch winger
was accused by Mexico boss Miguel Herrera of committing three dives during
Sunday's tie in Fortaleza that saw Holland go through to the quarter-finals of
the World Cup.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">However, Robben
said in quotes attributed to Dutch television channel NOS: "The one at the
end was a penalty, I was fouled.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"At the same
time, I have to apologise as in the first half I took a dive and I really
shouldn't do that.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"That was a
stupid, stupid thing to do but sometimes you're expecting to be struck and then
they pull their leg away at the last minute."</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Herrera said
Portuguese referee Pedro Proenca should have taken action against the Bayern
Munich winger.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He told a news
conference: "Robben did three dives and he should have been cautioned. You
should caution a guy who is trying to cheat, and then if Robben did it again he
would be sent off."</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Algeria will have
revenge in mind when they renew World Cup rivalries with Germany 32 years on
from the 'Shame of Gijon'.</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Officially, there
will be a place in the quarter-finals of the 2014 event at stake when the two
nations lock horns in Porto Alegre on Monday.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">History, though,
dictates that there is much more than mere tournament progression riding on the
contest for Algeria.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Algeria: Making history</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Having beaten West
Germany 2-1 at the 1982 World Cup, Algeria were denied a place in the knockout
stage after a now infamous victory for the Germans over Austria a few days
later – with the two sides collaborating to ensure that the 1-0 scoreline
required to take both through came to pass.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The issue still
rankles with the North Africans, but they can console themselves with the fact
that they are now making history as they go.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Qualification into
the second round has been secured for the first time – some three decades too
late for some - and they can take great pride in that achievement.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Algeria finished as
runners-up in Group H, with a nervy 1-1 draw with Russia in their final outing
taking them through at the expense of their opponents.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Coach Vahid
Halilhodzic is aware that further heroics will be required if the adventure is
to continue, with Germany considered by many to be favourites to go all the
way.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #000002; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Opta stats</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: #383c3f; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Germany have lost both of their previous meetings with Algeria
in all competitions, scoring once and conceding four times.</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: #383c3f; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Germany have reached the semi-finals of the last three World
Cups. No nation has ever made the last four in four successive tournaments.</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: #383c3f; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Algeria’s six goals have been scored by five different players.
Only Colombia (6) had more scorers during the group stages of the World Cup
than Algeria.</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: #383c3f; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Thomas Müller has scored nine goals in nine World Cup
appearances, including four in three so far in 2014.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He said: “We are
the small, small Algeria and now play against the big, big Germany. This fourth
game will be more than complicated.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Halilhodzic is
expected to draft former Rangers defender Madjid Bougherra back into his
starting XI, with the centre-half having been benched against Russia as Algeria
freshened things up and sought to avoid any costly suspensions for those
carrying yellow cards.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Germany, meanwhile,
will feel that there is still more to come from them, despite making light work
of a so-called ‘Group of Death’ as they collected seven points.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Their opening
fixture, a 4-0 demolition of Portugal, showcased what they are capable of on
their day, while battling qualities earned them a draw with Ghana and a narrow
victory over USA.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Joachim Low will be
hoping to draw on the positives from each of those outings as the serious
business of knockout competition gets underway, but he insists there is no
chance of his much-fancied side taking Algeria lightly.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He said: "If
anybody thinks or believes - and I think this is a feeling among the general
public - that Algeria are easy opponents and that we can already start thinking
of the next round, then they're making a huge mistake.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"We must
remain focused and on our toes because any complacency will be punished.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-no-proof: yes;"><img alt="http://e2.365dm.com/14/06/210x110/450711054_3158982.jpg?20140617012006" height="110" src="file:///C:%5CUsers%5Cwhite%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_image002.jpg" width="210" /></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Germany: Among the favourites</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"I took a look
at Algeria yesterday for an hour and I know we're up against a very compact
side who run a lot and are aggressive.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"I've rarely
seen a team defend so vehemently, but still attack with purpose. Their whole
country is euphoric, so we're up against a strong opponents."</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Low has also
attempted to play down the revenge talk, although there will be no avoiding it come
kick-off.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He added:
"When I hear people talking about revenge, it irritates me. Apart from
maybe (Miroslav) Klose or (Roman) Weidenfeller, none of our players were even
born then so they have no idea what happened.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"For our
players, it's not an issue."</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Low has revealed
that he will be persevering with Philipp Lahm in a midfield role, while he must
decide whether to keep faith with Sami Khedira alongside him or offer a recall
to Bastian Schweinsteiger – with the Bayern Munich man rested against the United
States.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Jerome Boateng will
also be hoping to be involved after shaking off a slight knee complaint, but it
has been confirmed that Arsenal forward Lukas Podolski will play no part as he
nurses a muscular problem – although he will be ready for the quarter-finals if
Germany make it through.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Charlie Nicholas'
prediction</span></b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I think Germany
will simply be too strong for Algeria and they have too much quality in their
squad to fall at this hurdle.</span></div>
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