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It's the first time the Netherlands has been involved in showing up for the World Series after missing two consecutive tournaments. But their bad luck seems to have been unbroken. Originally, Koeman led the team to achieve good results, in the first UEFA A competition into the final, and finally came second. However, after being temporarily invited away by Barcelona, the Dutch team organized the previous coaching results of the appropriate mediocre de Boer as the head coach, de Boer after taking office to lead the team's results are not very bad, but there is really no bright spot. The general level of coaching and the lack of experience in competitions is undoubtedly an important shortcoming of the Netherlands.
Aside from the manager, the players seem to be infected with bad luck as well. Van Dijk, the team's center of defense, spent last season
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Having suffered a serious injury after being put down by Pickford in the league, and after almost a season of recuperating from the injury, Van Dijk
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He was declared unavailable for this year's tournament before
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. The main goalkeeper, Cillessen, who had been called up to the team, had to leave the national team due to problems with the new crown. And the team's
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Midfielder Van der Beck also withdrew from the national team before the competition kicked off due to injury concerns.
In the first round of the group stage, head coach De Boer also announced that star center back Derek De Rijkert, who previously suffered a groin injury, will not play against Ukraine. But the good news is that the Netherlands group stage three games are held in Amsterdam, the orange army appropriate for all home games. Such a team that suffered bad luck before the tournament is killing it in the group stage. Facing Ukraine in the first round, they took a two-goal lead in the second half with goals from Wijnaldum and Weghorst, but Ukraine equalized twice in four minutes, forcing the Netherlands into a dead heat. However, in the closing stages of the game, their right back Dumfries came out, header to complete the kill, the Netherlands in the first group stage of the difficult to take three points.
Before the second round match with Austria, they welcomed the good news that the backbone of the defense, Derek De Ligt, was able to return to the game. The Juve center back has really brought a qualitative change to the back line, and the suspension of the opponent's main striker Arnautovic has also reduced the pressure on the Dutch defense. Shortly after the start of the game, Dumfries killed into the penalty area caused Alaba foul, the Netherlands was awarded a penalty kick, Depay one to go. In the second half, Dumfries again forward goal, for the team to lock the win, but also for their own take the game MVP. group stage of the first two rounds of the win, due to the loss of each other linked to make tulips early round lock group first.
The final round of the group stage, the Netherlands can be said to be lightly loaded, facing Pandev's career final game, the Netherlands team is also full of full strength, give the opponent the greatest respect. Depay opened the scoring in the first half, and the Barcelona striker assisted Wijnaldum to extend the score in the second half of the game, and then Wijnaldum broke the goal again. Holland won all three of their group stage matches, which was
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For the third time in the history of the regular season, the team won all of its group matches, becoming the first team in history to achieve this result.
However, in the knockout round they face the Czech Republic, who are the bitter rivals of the Dutch. Not only are the Orange the underdogs in terms of total results, but some of the classic matches have been a real pain in the ass. The last two meetings between the two teams were in 2016.
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The qualifiers resulted in the Tulip Army being killed by their opponents in a home and away double-header, which ultimately led to their own exclusion from that edition of the
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regular season, keeping in mind that the Czech Republic was also in a slump at that point. Previously the two teams played in the
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2 meetings in the main event, 2000
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In the group stage, the Netherlands beat the Czech Republic 1-0, with none other than their current manager Frank de Boer scoring for the Orange Army.Four years after the
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The two teams met again in the group stage, and this time Holland made the fatal mistake of substituting Robben, who was in red-hot form at the time, and allowed themselves to take a two-goal lead that was reversed by the Czech Republic with three consecutive goals, making them the first team to win the tournament.
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One of the most iconic races in history.
This elimination match proved it again, the first half of the two teams still have each other's offense and defense. In the second half, after Mallon missed a solo goal and de Ligt got a red card for a handball foul, the whole Dutch team's mentality immediately collapsed. After reaching the limit of both mentality and brawn, they were twice caught by the Czechs. Firstly, Hollaesch scored a header from a free kick, and then assisted Schick's goal after a break, and finally Holland failed to reach the last eight of this year's Cup. 13 years ago, the knockout round jinx came to Holland again, and at that time, they consecutively beat France and Italy in the group stage, but were defeated by Arshavin's Russian team in the quarter-finals.
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The team was knocked off, which was the worst of the group stage for the all-conquering unit
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Results (side-by-side with Croatia '08). 2000
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Holland also won all their group games, but they faltered in the semifinals, and winning all their group games seems to have become a curse for the orange-clad army.
