Van der Gragt guides runners-up Netherlands to maiden win

The ‘Oranje Leeuwinnen’ (‘Orange Lionesses’) fulfilled their first wish here world of Australia and New Zealand to try to emerge as leaders of group Ewhich is leading now USA after their resounding victory over Vietnam (3-0). A solitary goal from the former Barça player Stephanie van der Gragtnow at Inter, is enough for Netherlands get the first three points by narrow defeat Portugal (1-0), who made his debut this Sunday in a World Cup event and struggled to keep up with the demands of a more experienced Dutch team.

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The Netherlands jumped on the turf of Forsyth Barr Stadium of Dunedin (New Zealand) with a desire for revenge, accumulated since the last World Cup in 2019 when they lost the final against the United States. The Dutch formed using the standard 3-1-4-2 with green as a midfielder, as well as forwards martens and beerenstein as attack references. those of andries jonker they quickly advanced on the scoreboard taking advantage of the Portuguese’s acclimatization, with a goal from the middle Van der Gragtone of the best in the game, in a corner taken by another of the most outstanding, the captain Sherida Spitze (Ajax).

Van der Gragt, with a great jump in the 13′, beat two defenders to finish the cross with his head and crossed the ball to the goalkeeper Ines Pereira nothing to do. At first, VAR disallowed the goal, but from the video arbitration room they called the Ukrainian referee. Mozul, considering that nothing obstructs the vision of the Portuguese goalkeeper and, therefore, the goal from the central defender should go up on the scoreboard. ‘Oranje’ celebrated it, in some stands that this time showed a good appearance on the island of New Zealand (almost 12,000 spectators).

From here, the Dutch team completely dominated, with Beerensteenn as the most lethal weapon in attack thanks to his devilish pace. Also van de Donkstar of Olympique de Lyon, commanded the positional attacks of the Netherlands, who only had to be wary of the counter-attacks of an inoffensive Portugal in a first half in which they did not have a shot on goal.

Portugal It seems to grow a bit more in the second half, the result of adapting to a date of these characteristics. The Portuguese team took advantage of the advanced defense of the Netherlands to find long balls towards Jessica Silvathe scoring star of ‘Navigadoras’, who was alone in the attack and had to find his life on several occasions to try van Domselaar.

Encarnaçao, one of the most dangerous in Portugal

Despite the fact that they were more prominent on the ball after the restart, the Portuguese did not disturb the goal of Netherlands. The physical exhaustion to which they were subjected held the team back Francisco Neto reach the Dutch goal by van Domselaar in good condition, who intervened in the 83′ to take a powerful shot from the recently entered incarnaçao as the best chance Portuguese forward Marítimo attempted to revolutionize the Portuguese attack in the last quarter of an hour of the match.

Netherlands, with a martens with some ease in the danger zone and beerenstein left between cotton, he managed to at least control the times of the last minute and finished his first victory here. world. So far the Dutch are in the lead group E next to USAboth have 3 points but with the Americans having the most goals in favor (3), at the beginning of the rivalry that the Next Thursday July 27 (9.30 Spanish time) at the Sky Stadium on wellington.