translated from Spanish: Netherlands qualified to eighth of the European Championship after beating Austria

With an early penalty goal from Memphis Depay and a second counter-attacking goal from Denzel Dumfries, the Netherlands certified its qualification to the knockout stages of the European Championship against an Austria (2-0) that hardly created danger in Amsterdam and that will have to play the pass against Ukraine.The Netherlands is the lone leader of Group C with 6 points at the end of the second day and Austria is second with 3 , tied with Ukraine, who won 2-1 over North Macedonia, last without points. Frank de Boer’s side did their homework in front of their crowd at Amsterdam’s Johan Cruyff Arena in an unreticed and uncontested match, marked by a naïve david alaba penalty in the 10th minute of the first half. On a bad night for Real Madrid’s new signing, the Austrian captain stepped on Wenzel Dumfries on the line of the area and Memphis Depay did not forgive from eleven yards out. With Ronald Koeman, Barcelona’s coach and architect of the Netherlands’ qualification for the European Championship, in the stands, Depay, who seems to be about to make his signing for the Club azulgrana official, was able to sign the second on his personal account at the end of the first half, but he did not manage to finish off an empty door on a clamorous occasion. But the Dutch star shone again in the second half in a goal with the same protagonists as in the first of the tulips: Alaba missed an aerial ball in midfield, facilitating a counter-attack from Depay, who served dumfries to finish at pleasure after a deep gallop in the 67th minute.” I have horse lungs,” the PSV Eindhoven right-back, voted best player of the Dutch’ debut with a 3-2 win against Ukraine, had said before the match.Austria, which did not have Marko Arnautovic, sanctioned by UEFA with a match without playing for insulting North Macedonian players after scoring a goal on the first day , had shifted the pressure to the Netherlands, the group’s favourites. And the Dutch complied, putting in their pocket a fast-track qualification for the knockout stages after seven long years without appearing in a major international tournament.- Technical sheet:2 – Netherlands: Stekelenburg; Dumfries, De Vrij, Blind (Aké, m.64), De Ligt, Van Aanholt (Wijndal, m.64); Frenkie De Jong, Wijnaldum, De Roon (Gravenberch, m.74); Weghorst and Depay (Luuk de Jong, m.82).0 – Austria: Bachmann; Dragovic (Lienhart, m.84), Praise, Hinteregger; Schlager (Onisiwo, m.84); Sabitzer, Laimer (Grillitsch, m.62), Ulmer, Lainer; Gregoritsch (Kalajddzic, m.62) and Baumgartner (Lazaro, m.70). Goals: 1-0, m.11: Memphis Depay, penalty. 2-0, m.67: Denzel Dumfries.Referee: Orel Grinfeeld (ISR). He admonished the Austrians David Alaba (m.10) and Daniel Bachmann (m.67) and the Dutchman Marteen De Ron (m.14)

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