LIVE European Championship Qualifying | Three changes in the Dutch starting XI against Ireland, goalscorers lose their starting place | Orange

Daley Blind will start his 103rd game for the Dutch team against Ireland tonight. The 33-year-old defender of Girona thus approaching the top 5 of record internationals.

Blind, Robin van Persie (102 international matches) has now passed and takes seventh place. He can play the next international match in October, with European Championship qualifiers against France and Greece Pass Dirk Kuyt. Kuyt has played 104 matches for the Dutch team. Giovanni van Bronckhorst takes fifth place with 106 international matches.

Wesley Sneijder is a record international with 134 matches, followed by Edwin van der Sar (130), Frank de Boer (112) and Rafael van der Vaart (109).

Blind, the oldest player in the current selection of the Dutch team, debuted on February 6, 2013 in a practice match against Italy. The practice match in Amsterdam ended 1-1. For the Netherlands, with Louis van Gaal as national coach, Jeremain Lens scored.

Ireland’s starting eleven is also known.

The position of the Dutch team is known. Ronald Koeman chooses the following starting eleven:
Spots; De Ligt, Van Dijk, Ake; Dumfries, Wieffer, De Jong, Blind; Simons, Malen, Gakpo

Matthijs de Ligt was expected, but that too Mats Wieffer and Donyell Malen being in the base is a little surprise.

Compared to last Thursday against Greece (3-0 win), this means that in addition to the injured Lutsharel Geertruida also the goalscorers Marten de Roon and Wout Weghorst have lost their starting place.

The Dutch selection left the players’ hotel for the Aviva Stadium, a short drive through Dublin.

All 51,711 seats in the Aviva Stadium in Dublin will be occupied tonight. The stadium is located on the site of the former Lansdowne Road stadium, where the Dutch team suffered such a painful defeat on September 1, 2001 and missed out on the 2002 World Cup.

The beautiful stadium was built between 2007 and 2010. Ireland’s national football team has now played 72 international matches at the Aviva Stadium, winning 31 and losing 18.

The Irish rugby team has also played 72 international matches at the Aviva Stadium, winning 56 and losing 14.

The Dutch national team will play against Ireland for the 23rd time tonight. The Dutch team won half of the 22 previous meetings. Seven times there was a victory for the Irish, four times there was a draw.

The last time the Dutch team and Ireland faced each other for serious action was on September 1, 2001, when Ireland won 1-0 in Dublin through Jason McAteer’s goal. Louis van Gaal’s Dutch team therefore missed out on qualifying for the 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea.

After that there were three more friendly encounters: 1-1 in Amsterdam (2004), 0-4 in Dublin (2006) and 1-1 in Dublin (2016).

The Dutch team can at least eliminate one competitor for second place in its European Championship qualifying group tonight. In addition to a victory in Dublin against the Irish, the Dutch also want to convince in the field game. “We now want to show it over a longer period,” says Ronald Koeman.

“We are also curious whether they will continue to play as always. Or that they are going to change something in this match of the last chance,” says Koeman. He himself makes a decision on the match day about the availability of Nathan Aké, while Lutsharel Geertruida has to miss the game. He dropped out of the last training session prematurely.

Lutsharel Geertruida will have to miss the European Championship qualifier between Ireland and the Netherlands tonight. The Feyenoord defender left prematurely during the last training in the Aviva Stadium on Saturday and did not appear to be fit in time.

Geertruida’s name is missing from the final match selection, which was released by UEFA on Sunday. Also left back Ian Maatsen (Chelsea) has to watch the game from the stands. National coach Ronald Koeman selected 25 players. The match selection may consist of no more than 23 players.

Matthijs de Ligt (Bayern Munich) is normally Geertruida’s replacement. Defender Micky van de Ven of Tottenham Hotspur, who was in the stands with Maatsen in the 3-0 European Championship qualifier match against Greece on Thursday, is now part of the match selection due to Geertruida’s injury.

Good evening and welcome to our live blog of Ireland – Netherlands. There are still more than two hours until kick-off in the Aviva Stadium in Dublin, but here we look ahead to the match in the qualifying series for the European Championship 2024 in Germany.