It was phantastic. But the referee really had not his best day. The sending off was not his only bad decision. The second Dutch goal was clearly at least 6 yards offside though the rule why it was offside is not well known. One Dutch player was in passive offside when the ball was played to some other Dutch player who then played the ball to the player who was previously in passive offside. This is one of the situations in which the decision not to call it offside at the moment the ball was played was correct since the player who was offside was far from the ball. But he was closer to the goal than the opposite players and five seconds later used this advantage to score. This is one of the rare situations in which the decision of offside has to come several seconds after the actual offside situation. But a referee at the Euro should see that.

One clear offside goal granted, one wrong booking, he was really a spoiler of a great game.

Now all Germany has to do is to beat the Czechs :-)

Wolfgang