Dutch wizard 1, Serbia & Montenegro 0

The Netherlands were lucky to have a wizard in Arjen Robben who turned in a most sensational individual display of the World Cup so far, scoring the only goal of the game to beat Serbia & Montenegro 1-0.

In the 18th minute, Robin van Persie sent in a through ball which Robben latched on to, springing the offside trap and racing through to slip the ball cooly past Serbian keeper Dragoslav Jevric. He then constantly tormented his opponents and the person assigned to mark him Nenad Djordjevic had a nightmare outing and found it extremely difficult to contain him, eventually suffering the indignity of being substituted two minutes before halftime.

With this result, the Dutch join Argentina on top of Group C with three points.

Soccer Pundit won't say that this is a fabulous Dutch display as they depended on a single person too much and the play is too unbalanced with the attacks all coming from the left flank and the right winger has virtually nothing much to do.

Is it Robben's fault that he has stolen the limelight? Supporters will say that he has taken the bull by the horn and lift the match while critics will say that he is selfish and did not bring other teammates into the play.

Soccer Pundit will like to think that Robben has done the former. Coach Marco van Basten will have a lot of tinkering to do in future matches to ensure the entire team performs to expectations (they have far too many talents to be a one man show). He needs to ensure that the situation of depending on one star player does not repeat itself as any injuries to Robben could derail their chances of progressing further.