No, that's a total fallacy. You could get past Netherlands playing exactly the same way as previous games without any improvement in performance. You could play turgid, ultra-cautious safety-first football for 120 mins then win on pens (and that's pretty much what I expect to happen, tbh).
Might be your best game in terms of progressing through the competition but the criticism isn't about getting through the ties, it's in the way you've done it.