He has since accepted the blame for the defeat, and Argentina legend Maradona says the performance shows Mourinho was right to favour Diego Lopez over the 33-year-old.

"He had the worst game I've ever seen in my life...and it reminds me of what my friend Mourinho told everyone about him," the 53-year-old told Telesur.

"He said Casillas wasn't the right keeper and he paid for that. He had to leave, but in the end it turns out that Mourinho was right."

Sergio Ramos was also criticised in the aftermath of the game and Maradona felt the Madrid centre-back lacked in pace against Arjen Robben.

"He beat him in a race coming from five metres behind," he added.

Casillas and Ramos will hope to make amends when they face Chile in their next Group B clash on Wednesday night.

See this why I love this guy . He is hardly wrong about anything that he says . He can play for the media and be arrogant , but whenever he spits he spits the honest opinion on something , he is spot on right .

Not mentioning whole season because Casillas was given task of CL . However, Casillas fck ups almost cost Real in the final of atletico for sure and now it was against Dutch .

Mourinho was like always spot on about his decline .

I think there should be a rule book in football that everyone must carry. Rule #1 should be 'Do not trust Pele's and Maradona's comments. They have no idea what they are saying.'

Everybody talking about his mistakes, but did anyone noticed that Casillas saved 3 clean goals?

Casillas is brilliant at times, but really poor and inconsistent other times. I want to see Reina in goal.

A few poor games and the whole world forgets how good you can really be.

Casillas is aging, and he's been relatively poor along 2012-13. However, his CL performances this season were top class. His only mistake came in the final, as he went out of his line twice in an attempt to fist the ball out, and conceded because of it once. Netherlands game was extremely poor from him, however he did make some outstanding saves. Personally, I think that if he makes another costly mistake in this world cup, he should be dropped in favor of David De Gea.

It's just like Buffon when he was around Casillas' age. A few poor performances, and everybody forgot how good the real Gigi Buffon was until Conte came along.

However, Ramos is an interesting character. Great header of the ball, very physical, great tackling..... but also unnecessarily reckless. Putting him with a CB who can clean up after his mistakes (Varane, Carvalho) or with a CB who he already has a good understading with (Pepe) will get the best out of him. But putting a reckless CB (Ramos) with an oblivious one (Pique) is asking for disaster. Ramos and Inigo Martinez would be an interesting pairing, or even Ramos and Albiol. Pique has not had the best of seasons (hasn't had a good season for a while, to be honest), and his regular partner Puyol hasn't looked like playing international football again for a while.

Maradona is not the most reliable of characters when it comes to trusting his words, but he was correct in his criticism of the Madrid duo tonight. Ramos and Iker both need to take their performances up to the level of their reputation.

Maradona was a footballing god, but now he's just an old fool. He should really keep his comments to himself.

Casillas is past his time. Mourinho was 100% spot on. It Maradona one year to figure this out lol

Casillas obviously had a bad game, he's not its top form for sure, but saying this is utterly bullsh!t. He was awesome during CL and he did a big part in Real's championship.

Pele and Mara are legends, but one always predicts the opposite of the result and one is always on crack...

He refers to Mourinho as his "friend".. Hmm.. something tells me this is a one sided friendship. Pele and Maradona, as V said, are completely nuts.

Pique and Ramos = Disaster .

All I am trying to say is that when Media and Madrid fans were bashing on Mourinho for dropping their legend , he was actually right to do it .

Also , whether Marodonna is a moron or not but he let his nation to World cup and newspaper do care about his opinion . So, should I care what some Pedro from Madrid said about Mourinho decision on dropping Casillas on to the bench or what Marodonna ( one of the greatest footballers of all time ) said ?

@Marcus

I think you know well enough to not trust Maradona's comments. He's just some crazy old fool now. Mourinho had his reasons for dropping Casillas. I think enough time has passed that you and everyone else should move on from that incident. It's been more than a year since then, and Casillas has both improved his form and has had a change in role at Madrid.

" Casillas has both improved his form and has had a change in role at Madrid."

So you agree he dropped form ?

Also that meme was more like Robben losing it for Holland and brilliant dive by Iniesta which gave Heitinga second yellow .

@Marcus you can be so clueless sometimes. If you're new to football try to learn from people on this forum this is a great opportunity. But don't pretend you know things when you clearly don't.

Do people even take what Maradona says for real? I cant understand how people use Maradona's comments to prove an already unprovable point. Mourinho and Ancelotti had no reason to keep Lopez as the starter. Casillas has always been better than him. He is one of the best keepers in history of football but because of a couple of bad games now people start questioning if he should be starter or not. Everyone knows Casillas didnt play while Mourinho was at Madrid because something other than performance issues.

Maradona is just a fool, he has always been. Some Mourinholovers cant let go the fact he makes mistakes.

The problem is that Diego Lopez was impressive, really. He was in competition with the best GK of Spanish History and he was really good, in his first games, he barely did a mistakes and made some amazing saves...
I didnt give my point because i have mixed feelings, in my mind both deserve to be starters, Casillas CL and Copa performences were out of this world, except for the CL final.

How can we trust a guy who said " I was better than Pele" even though they didn't even play at the same time.

^ He was. (imo)

@Marcus

Of course. Denying it would be ignorace. Casillas had a relatively average season in 2012-13, whilst Lopez had an outstanding season in 2012-13 (asides from the Copa del Rey final). However, Casillas has been head and shoulders over Lopez this season in its entirety.

You should get your head out of the zone of "Mourinho can't make mistakes". Benching Casillas was a mistake of his, and mostly everyone agrees except for you. It's about time you stop trying to bring up that age-old argument again.

or this :D

I am going to stick to what I think. I don't always go with majority opinion because I have my opinion based of what I see . So saying many think this way and I am not , really does not bother me a bit .

And if you think Marodona is crazy old fool then I assume Ancelotti is as well for picking Casillas only for CL and Copa del Rey matches .

I say Let's watch rest of the tournament and see how Casillas redeems himself hence everyone thinks that it was unfortunate game against Holland . My money is on that he will keep on messing up , because goalkeeper who concedes 5 goals , out of which at least 3 were his fault , is not in any top form in my book and that match alone already damaged his "brilliant " season in Madrid .

Also , you know it is not very hard to go back and read what I write here and it is not like I say anything and it disappears in thin air , I write and it stays on the thread . I never said , Mourinho Is never wrong or can't mistakes about anything , I said he is hardly wrong about anything . You need to stop putting words that i never wrote here . It is your favorite thing to do or you just do it unintentionally ?

P.s. Casillas is favorite boy to everyone . Media loves him so the majority does too . However, I thought it was very unfair to Deigo Lopez to bring Pepe Reina and De Gea .

I think De Gea is great goalie plus young who has future ahead of him , so he will have a chance to be main guy in the world cup . And Pepe Reina ? What for ? It would have been fair to give on chance to Deigo just to sit on the bench if not to play , at the World Cup , because he is aging .

@marcus, if instead of sticking to your opinion you would read and try to understand what other people say around you, you would know more about football, and you would know that Reina is not picked for spain for his ability, he is picked because he is great behind the scenes, he is friends with everyone and is a major part of the squad for this unique reason. And no one said casillas had a good game against netherlands, because it is obvious that he was terrible. But you can't just because of one game pretend casillas was always terrible.

I really think you're from somewhere in the world where you don't interact with a lot of football fans, and you base your knowledge on reading the dailymail and the sun on the internet. Time to broaden your football mind