A look at Tuesday’s World Cup semifinal

SEMIFINAL

Netherlands vs. Uruguay: Green Point Stadium, Cape Town.

Time: 11:30 a.m. PDT.

TV: ESPN, ESPN Deportes, Univision Radio: Sirius/XM, KLYY-FM 97.5 and KDLD-FM 103.1.

The Uruguayans have not been to the World Cup final in 60 years, or since their victory over host Brazil in 1950. “We still hold those champions as idols,” said Coach Oscar Tabarez. The Dutch have not been there since 1978 and have never won the tournament. “This is a very dangerous game; they are fighters and we have to be very focused,” said Netherlands Coach Bert van Marwijk. Think both teams don’t want to win this one? Tabarez will be without suspended striker Luis Suarez, whose handball save against Ghana in the quarterfinals kept the South American team alive at the cost of his own reputation. The Dutch are missing a couple of defensive players to suspension, right back Gregory van der Wiel and defensive midfielder Nigel de Jong. Each team has a forward chasing the Golden Boot Award that goes to the tournament’s top goal scorer. Dutch midfielder Wesley Sneijder has four goals, one behind leader David Villa of Spain, and Uruguayan forward Diego Forlan has three. Tuesday night’s winner plays in Sunday’s championship final in Johannesburg against the winner of Wednesday night’s semifinal in Durban between Germany and Spain.

— Grahame L. Jones