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21:43
Mid-term conclusion:
In the friendly match between the Netherlands and Denmark, the score at half-time is 3-1 for the hosts, who drive the game-determining team from the start. After Bergwijn’s early lead in the 16th, the Danes equalized just four minutes later, although that was also their only serious attack in the number one half. Immediately afterwards they withdrew again and let Oranje do it. Aké took the lead again after a good half hour – oddly enough, all three of the first goals came from a header – before Depay extended the lead to two goals with a penalty in the 37th minute. Denmark have already had to make two changes due to injury.
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21:35
Shortly before the break, the guest tries again to get forward. But there is a lack of ideas and the follow-up behavior is not particularly good either. The extremely well-known chain of three around van Dijk has hardly anything to do.
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21:31
Official injury time (minutes): 3
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21:31
Andreas Skov Olsen comes on as a substitute for Denmark
45
21:31
Substitution for Denmark: Yussuf Poulsen
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21:30
Since there is no possibility of a change, Poulsen bites his teeth again and returns to the field.
40
21:30
The next bad news: Poulsen will not be able to continue either. When starting and trying to sprint, the man from RB Leipzig has to because it also hits him in a muscle.
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21:29
And even after the third goal, nothing comes from the Dansk Boldspil Union. Nothing really goes together with her.
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21:23
Tooor for Netherlands, 3:1 by Memphis Depay
Depay takes responsibility and coolly pushes the gaming device flat into the middle with his right hand. Schmeichel throws himself into the left corner and cannot prevent the impact. Two-goal lead for the home side!
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21:23
Jannik Vestergaard (Denmark) is shown a yellow card.
Vestergaard sees a yellow card for foul play.
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21:23
Penalty for the Netherlands! After a respectable one-two in the middle of the sixteen, Berghuis has a very good shot at a distance of eleven meters. Vestergaard tries to block the shot but catches the Ajax man on the right foot. There’s a penalty!
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21:22
After bleeding from the head after a collision with Aké and receiving brief treatment, Bah can continue in a turban.
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21:21
However, only Oranje continues to play.
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21:19
Now that they have fallen behind again, the Danes feel compelled to do more for the game again.
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21:16
Tooor for the Netherlands, 2-1 through Nathan Aké
And they take the lead for the second time. The third goal of the evening, like the previous two, was also scored with the head. After a short corner from the left, Berhuis brings the play equipment perfectly central to the five. ManCity central defender Aké is pretty free there, climbs up and heads the leather past Schmeichel into the net without any problems.
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21:15
After the equalizer, the away team pulled back a bit and the Netherlands took control again.
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21:14
Denmark coach Kasper Hjulmand has already had to change due to injury. Delaney is unable to continue due to a muscular problem and will be replaced by Nørgaard.
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21:12
Christian Nørgaard comes on as a substitute for Denmark
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21:12
Denmark are making a substitution with Thomas Delaney
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21:11
After a Danish inattention in the build-up game, Berghuis gets the ball halfway to the right in front of the penalty area and shoots. He tunnels through the defender with his flat left-footed shot from the short corner, but once again Schmeichel is there and safely parries the not-so-sharp shot.
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21:10
The hosts counterattack in their own stadium, but Depay’s flat pass from the right side of the box to the middle is inaccurate and comes too close to Schmeichel’s box. The keeper comes out of his goal and grabs the ball.
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21:06
Tooor for Denmark, 1-1 through Jannik Vestergaard
Jannik Vestergaard has the perfect answer. The second ball from a direct free kick blocked by the wall from the half-right backcourt lands in front of the left sixteen corner at Atalanta professional Mæhle. The long central defender at the far post extends his cross with a right train to the goal with a small head touch perfectly into the far corner. Flekken has to reach behind him for the first time on his debut after 20 minutes.
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21:05
Nothing at all has been seen from “Danish Dynamite” so far. How are you dealing with the backlog?
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21:02
Tooor for the Netherlands, 1-0 through Steven Bergwijn
And then it rings for the first time. The Dutch opening goal had hinted. On the left flank, Berghuis takes his high-playing full-back Blind with him, who brings the ball perfectly to the five with his strong left. There, the not necessarily big Bergwijn has too much space and sinks his header from a central position into the left corner.
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21:02
Germany’s northern neighbor now retreats to the center line when the opponents have possession of the ball.
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21:01
The subsequent corner kick brings nothing.
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21:00
Steven Bergwijn with the good try! In the center of the sixteen, the Tottenham Hotspur winger puts the ball past his defender with his right outside instep and has a clear shot. He aims for the left corner with his strong right, but the half-height finish with the inside is not precise enough and Schmeichel steers the leather around the post.
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20:57
Oranje is now increasingly taking control of the game and playing more purposefully forward than the opponent.
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20:56
Half right in the box, Depay starts and is searched for with a pass, but Andersen is there, stops the pass and clarifies the situation.
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20:53
Both teams approach the encounter calmly and tentatively at first.
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20:52
After these first approaches to the goal, the Dutchmen pull back a bit and let the guests build up in peace.
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20:52
Virgil van Dijk’s bounce from a good 25 meters is very central and therefore not even a warm-up shot for Kasper Schmeichel in Denmark’s box.
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20:49
After a first short solo run by Frenkie de Jong in the half-right backcourt, the Barca professional puts his teammate Memphis Depay in the limelight on the right edge of the sixteen. He doesn’t hesitate for long, but puts the tight right-footed shot in the short corner just over the bar.
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20:48
Kick the Netherlands. as usual, completely in orange. The Dansk Boldspil-Union, all in white, counters.
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20:47
Referee Visser clears the game, it goes into the first round!
20:44
The upcoming game is a very special one, especially for one player. For the first time since his collapse on the pitch in the group stage of the aforementioned European Championship, Christian Eriksen is back in the Danes’ squad. Nine months after that moment in the game against Finland that terrified the footballing world, the gifted right-footer may well be making a comeback for his country. For the time being, the man from FC Brentford takes a seat on the bench, which has nothing to do with the cardiac arrest at the time, because all the lights are green and everything is fine, as he told Danish journalists in Marbella. The 30-year-old was recently struggling with a corona infection and traveled to the team camp in Spain on Wednesday evening.
20:34
It is hardly possible to award one of the two sides the role of favorites, which is already shown by the placements in the FIFA world rankings. In ninth place, Denmark is slightly ahead of the Dutch in the next place. This is due to the strong performance of “Danish Dynamite” at the last European Championships, where they only lost to hosts England in the semifinals in extra time. The Netherlands had to admit defeat to the Czech Republic in the round of 16.
20:28
The line-ups reveal that the two take this clash very seriously, despite the fact that it is a test match: At Oranje you can look forward to top stars like de Ligt, van Dijk, F. de Jong or Depay tonight. In the case of the Danes, coach Kasper Hjulmand relies on some (former) Bundesliga professionals. Vestergaard, who is now under contract with Leicester City, is the central player in the defensive back three. On the double six, ex-BVB players Delaney and Højbjerg will steer and direct the action and the three-man offensive will be formed from the players Wind, Lindstrøm and Poulsen, who are active in the German upper house.
20:16
Before the start of the UEFA Nations League in early June, when both sides will find themselves in League A, they will face another friendly comparison after today’s encounter, in which the coaches will have another chance to test their staff. Coach Louis van Gaal’s squad will meet the DFB team next Tuesday and the Danish team will meet Serbia on the same evening.
20:13
After the two nations had already secured their ticket for the upcoming World Cup in Qatar in the group stage of qualification, they were able to confidently put their feet up in the last few days and watch the playoff games in front of the television to test their own skills in a test today to prove.
19:50
Hello and welcome to the international friendly match between the Netherlands and Denmark! Kick-off at the Johan Cruijff Arena in Amsterdam is at 20:45.