One contact with the ball was enough for Veghorst - Kuman's golden change sank Poland in Hamburg

The sea of ​​orange in Hamburg celebrates Wut Veghorst - the guy who entered the game in the 81st minute, and 120 seconds later touched the ball for the first time and turned it into gold...

The Netherlands won a big battle at the start of group D of the European Championship with a lot of difficulty - with a goal from Kuman's super substitution, they defeated Poland 2:1.

How important Veghorst is for "Oranje", regardless of whether he starts or comes off the bench, is best shown by the fact that he netted seven times in the last 11 games in the national team jersey.

"Do I need to say something new about him - the new important goal he scored," Koeman was brief after the match.

And, not everything looked ideal for Virgil van Dijk and company at the start of the match against Poland, which this time played without icon and best player Robert Lewandowski.

The injured master of Barcelona (he should be ready for the next matches) was replaced by Adam Buksa in the attack and already in the 16th minute he "exploded" the part of the stands where the fans of Poland are located - great jump and header after Piotr Zelinski's cross for 1:0.

A shock for the "tulips", but it was immediately clear that Kuman's team did not panic much... They slowly started to build attacks, and the goal for the equalizer arrived in the 29th minute when the MVP of the match, Kodi Gakpo, shot hard, and the ball was on its way to caught one of the Polish defenders in the net and tricked Wojciech Szczesny (1:1).

Gakpo had another good chance in the first half, followed by Memphis Depay and Xavi Simmons, and when it seemed that the Netherlands had no weapons to break down the solid defense of the "eagles", the Hoffenheim striker entered the game...

The right reaction after perhaps an accidental pass by Nathan Ake, the orange party in the famous German port could start...

"I think we played a great match, we created a lot of chances and I think the score should have been 60:4 by the 1th minute," Koeman added after the match.

On the other hand, Poland remains proud that, weakened, it did everything - although Michal Probjež's team (who drew attention with his cute styling) mostly defended, they had dangerous chances through Jakub Kivior and Karol Šviderski.

One of the stronger groups at the Euros brought a great duel in the first match - France and Austria are waiting.