A standout Jeremie Frimpongauthor of a goal and an assist, led the Netherlands team’s victory over Canada (4-0) at the De Kuip stadium in Rotterdam in their first preparatory friendly for Euro 2024.
Ronald Koeman not yet reliable Frenkie de Jong, who is slowly recovering from the ankle injury he suffered on April 21 in the Real Madrid-Barcelona match, but he has started Memphis Depay who opened the victory and, with 45 international goals, is only five away from the historic record of Robin van Persie using the ‘orange’ selection (50′).
Koeman, with a defense of four and substitutes
Koeman He chose to defend the four without the captain Virgil van Dijk and with current captain Daley Blind (Girona) as central. He also left players like De Ligt, Aké, Dumfries, Xavi Simons and Gakpo, called up to be starters in the Euro Cup.
The Netherlands dominated the match and had several chances, but Canada, Argentina’s Copa América rivals, stood up to the captain. Alphonso Davies (Bayern Munich), Tajon Buchanan (Inter), Jonathan David (Lille) and Cyle Larin (Mallorca).
He fought until the second half, when the goals came. Memphis He opened the can by placing his left foot to push the net into the small area perfectly Frimpong (49′). The Bayer Leverkusen winger took advantage of the space left for him Alphonso Davies to put his help from the right wing at will.
Frimpong again escaped from Davies
Before game time Frimpong He fled again to the right in a counterattack launched by Georginio Wijnaldum before returning to Davies in the area. It didn’t go well, but he collected the rebound to thread the ball over the far post, well out of the goalkeeper’s reach. Dayne St. Clair (57′).
Wout Weghorst made it 3-0 at will after pushing the short rebound of St. Clair in the net after a shot from Jerry Schouten (63′). There began the carousel of changes and Van Dijk, Just coming on after replacing Blind, he made it 4-0 at a corner by taking advantage of a bad clearance to score with a header before the exit of St Clair (83′).
Waiting to have Frenkie de Jong Just in time for the start of the Euro Cup, the win gives ‘Oranje’ hope of a good final stage. Their last test was in the 10th against Iceland before making their debut in group D against Poland. Robert Lewandowski on the 16th they will complete the first stage against France (21) and Austria (25).
Source: La Verdad
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