Netherlands 2-0 South Africa: Jill Roord and Lineth Beerensteyn score in World Cup win

Jill Roord has scored 4 goals astatine the 2023 Fifa Women's World Cup

The Netherlands secured a quarter-final spot against Spain astatine the Fifa Women's World Cup but not earlier enduring respective anxious moments against South Africa.

Banyana Banyana skipper Thembi Kgatlana was erstwhile again a existent fistful and forced 4 good saves from Daphne van Domselaar, Aston Villa's caller goalkeeper, astatine Sydney Football Stadium.

Lineth Beerensteyn doubled the pb aft a mistake by South Africa keeper Kaylin Swart successful the 2nd half.

The Netherlands volition instrumentality to New Zealand to look Spain successful Wellington adjacent Friday (02:00 BST) for a spot successful the semi-finals.

• Relive the enactment arsenic Netherlands decision South Africa astatine the Fifa Women's World Cup

Another lightning start

The Dutch are 2 wins from reaching back-to-back finals aft different lightning commencement astatine this tournament.

Roord's aboriginal header, aft Lieke Martens had been denied by a clearance disconnected the line, was the sixth clip they person scored wrong 20 minutes.

Their 2nd extremity was a gift, Swart allowing a seemingly regular changeable by the recalled Beerensteyn to gaffe done her grasp and into the net.

It was a horrible infinitesimal for the keeper but it secured the Dutch their 3rd triumph of the tournament.

They person had a near-perfect World Cup truthful acold and were lone denied triumph implicit four-time satellite champions the United States by Lindsey Horan's equaliser.

Andries Jonker, the erstwhile adjunct to Louis van Gaal astatine Bayern Munich and Barcelona, has been tasked with going 1 measurement further than the past World Cup erstwhile Sarina Wiegman's broadside were defeated 2-0 by the United States successful France.

They caput into the quarter-finals successful good signifier and with Spain successful their sights.

South Africa bow retired with heads high

Banyana Banyana are heading location but they person surely near an content astatine this tournament.

Their players person brought joyousness with their dancing and singing earlier and aft games, portion connected the transportation their breathtaking fast-paced attacking play has entertained fans.

And each this contempt a quality with their nationalist association. South Africa's players volition person $50,000 each from Fifa for reaching the past 16, but thing from the South Africa Football Association (SAFA).

Despite this, they person been a joyousness to ticker with their precocious triumph implicit Italy successful their last radical crippled sending them into the knockout signifier for the archetypal time.

South Africa went toe-to-toe with the Netherlands contempt losing Jermaine Seoposenwe and Bambanani Mbane to wounded earlier half-time.

The awesome Kgatlana has caused immense problems with her gait astatine this World Cup, scoring 2 and assisting different 2 goals, and she was erstwhile again unsafe against the Dutch.

The 27-year-old had 5 of South Africa's 7 attempts connected people successful this lucifer but recovered herself frustrated by Van Domselaar.

Will Banyana Banyana beryllium backmost successful 2027?

South Africa are aiming to big the adjacent Women's World Cup. Their beingness astatine the 2023 has surely added amusive to the tourney and they volition beryllium missed.