Van Persie happy with Holland display

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Van Persie scored his second goal of the competition to clinch a 2-0 win over the Romanians at Bern's Stade de Suisse Wankdorf on Wednesday night after Klaas Jan Huntelaar had opened the scoring.

"It's a nice victory, definitely," said the Arsenal forward. "The first half was very difficult because they had eight men behind the ball but the second half there was a bit more space and we could pass it a little more easily forwards. Overall it was a good team performance."

Coach Marco Van Basten too was thrilled with the former Feyenoord player's display.

"I'm very happy for him," said the AC Milan legend. "He worked hard. He has had a long and difficult time without playing and finally he has now played 90 minutes.

"It was not easy for him at the start but he worked hard and I think after that hard work it was his reward to score a nice goal so in the end everybody was happy."

Holland can now look forward to a quarter-final against either Russia or Spain at Basle's St Jakob-Park on Saturday.

Holland's win allowed world champions Italy - 2-0 winners over France in Zurich - to also advance to the last eight with Les Bleus dumped out along with Romania.

Romania coach Victor Piturca admitted his side had felt the effects of their exertions in holding World Cup finalists France and Italy to creditable draws in their first two games.

"Perhaps we were a little bit tired," he said. "We should have been mentally stronger than the Dutch but we weren't. We took enough risks, at times we had three against three at the back and you simply can't do that against teams like Holland. They are clinical."