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The Netherlands survived a precocious scare against the United States to determination into the World Cup quarter-finals with a ruthless show of finishing.
The US had the game's biggest aboriginal accidental erstwhile Christian Pulisic was denied by the legs of Dutch goalkeeper Andries Noppert and the nonaccomplishment to instrumentality that accidental proved highly expensive.
Louis van Gaal's broadside responded successful the finest Dutch traditions successful the 10th infinitesimal erstwhile Memphis Depay crowned a magnificent 21-pass determination by turning successful Denzel Dumfries' cross.
The US battled hard but lacked a cutting borderline and were punished erstwhile much successful akin manner with the last footwear of the archetypal fractional erstwhile Daley Blind arrived with cleanable timing connected the extremity of different Dumfries chopped back.
The Dutch were fixed anxious moments erstwhile the US pulled a extremity backmost successful the 76th infinitesimal arsenic Haji Wright's freak deflection from Pulisic's transverse looped successful astatine the acold post.
But they restored their two-goal pb 5 minutes aboriginal erstwhile creator Dumfries turned scorer, side-footing successful a volley astatine the acold station from Blind's cross.
Van Gaal's Dutch march connected
Van Gaal has been implicit this people earlier with the Netherlands, erstwhile helium guided them to a World Cup semi-final successful Brazil successful 2014, lone to suffer connected penalties to Argentina aft a goalless gully successful Sao Paulo.
And his immense acquisition means they cannot beryllium under-estimated present arsenic they acceptable up a past 8 gathering with either their 2014 conquerors Argentina oregon Australia, who conscionable astatine 19:00 GMT connected Saturday.
No-one would unreal this is simply a classical Dutch broadside but they person a sprinkling of prime successful each areas and the quality of their archetypal goal, which would person delighted the purists successful their homeland, was a graphic objection of their capabilities.
Virgil van Dijk is the world-class antiaircraft person alongside Nathan Ake, portion some full-backs Blind and Dumfries made important contributions.
Frenkie de Jong brings power to midfield and determination is existent menace successful the signifier of Depay, who scored his archetypal extremity of this World Cup, and 1 of the break-out stars of this World Cup, Cody Gakpo.
It was a show that delighted the set of Dutch fans wrong Khalifa International Stadium arsenic Van Gaal's broadside march on.
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Netherlands
Squad number23Player nameNoppert
Squad number2Player nameTimber
Squad number4Player namevan Dijk
Squad number5Player nameAké
Squad number22Player nameDumfries
Squad number15Player namede Roon
Squad number21Player namede Jong
Squad number17Player nameBlind
Squad number14Player nameKlaassen
Squad number8Player nameGakpo
Squad number10Player nameDepay
Squad number3Player namede Ligt
Squad number7Player nameBergwijn
Squad number19Player nameWeghorst
Squad number20Player nameKoopmeiners
Squad number25Player nameSimons
USA
Squad number1Player nameTurner
Squad number2Player nameDest
Squad number3Player nameZimmerman
Squad number13Player nameReam
Squad number5Player nameRobinson
Squad number6Player nameMusah
Squad number4Player nameAdams
Squad number8Player nameMcKennie
Squad number21Player nameWeah
Squad number9Player nameFerreira
Squad number10Player namePulisic
Squad number7Player nameReyna
Squad number11Player nameAaronson
Squad number16Player nameMorris
Squad number19Player nameWright
Squad number22Player nameYedlin
Line-ups
Netherlands
Formation 3-4-1-2
- 23Noppert
- 2Timber
- 4van Dijk
- 5AkéSubstituted forde Ligtat 90+4'minutes
- 22Dumfries
- 15de RoonSubstituted forBergwijnat 45'minutes
- 21de JongBooked astatine 87mins
- 17Blind
- 14KlaassenSubstituted forKoopmeinersat 45'minutesBooked astatine 60mins
- 8GakpoSubstituted forWeghorstat 90+4'minutes
- 10DepaySubstituted forSimonsat 83'minutes
Substitutes
- 1Pasveer
- 3de Ligt
- 6de Vrij
- 7Bergwijn
- 9de Jong
- 11Berghuis
- 12Lang
- 13Bijlow
- 16Malacia
- 18Janssen
- 19Weghorst
- 20Koopmeiners
- 24Taylor
- 25Simons
- 26Frimpong
USA
Formation 4-3-3
- 1Turner
- 2DestSubstituted forYedlinat 75'minutes
- 3Zimmerman
- 13Ream
- 5RobinsonSubstituted forMorrisat 90+2'minutes
- 6Musah
- 4Adams
- 8McKennieSubstituted forWrightat 67'minutes
- 21WeahSubstituted forAaronsonat 67'minutes
- 9FerreiraSubstituted forReynaat 45'minutes
- 10Pulisic
Substitutes
- 7Reyna
- 11Aaronson
- 12Horvath
- 14de la Torre
- 15Long
- 16Morris
- 17Roldán
- 18Moore
- 19Wright
- 20Carter-Vickers
- 22Yedlin
- 23Acosta
- 25Johnson
- 26Scally
Referee:Wilton Pereira Sampaio
Attendance:44,846
Live Text
Match ends, Netherlands 3, USA 1.
Second Half ends, Netherlands 3, USA 1.
Hand shot by Brenden Aaronson (USA).
Attempt blocked. Yunus Musah (USA) close footed changeable from the centre of the container is blocked. Assisted by Giovanni Reyna with a headed pass.
Substitution, Netherlands. Wout Weghorst replaces Cody Gakpo.
Substitution, Netherlands. Matthijs de Ligt replaces Nathan Aké.
Substitution, USA. Jordan Morris replaces Antonee Robinson.
Foul by DeAndre Yedlin (USA).
Nathan Aké (Netherlands) wins a escaped footwear successful the antiaircraft half.
Attempt blocked. Giovanni Reyna (USA) near footed changeable from the close broadside of the container is blocked. Assisted by Brenden Aaronson.
Frenkie de Jong (Netherlands) is shown the yellowish paper for a atrocious foul.
Brenden Aaronson (USA) wins a escaped footwear successful the antiaircraft half.
Foul by Frenkie de Jong (Netherlands).
Attempt missed. Walker Zimmerman (USA) close footed changeable from the centre of the container misses to the near pursuing a corner.
Corner, USA. Conceded by Virgil van Dijk.
Foul by DeAndre Yedlin (USA).
Xavi Simons (Netherlands) wins a escaped footwear successful the antiaircraft half.
Giovanni Reyna (USA) wins a escaped footwear successful the attacking half.
Foul by Cody Gakpo (Netherlands).
Substitution, Netherlands. Xavi Simons replaces Memphis Depay.
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