Denzel Dumfries played a very bad group stage at the World Cup, and in the round of XNUMX he showed that he was not the biggest problem in the Netherlands' game.
"Tulips" on the wings of Inter's right full back continued to believe that they can do something big in Qatar - they defeated the United States 3:1 to qualify for the quarterfinals of the World Cup.
The Netherlands survived a great chance by Kristijan Pulisic in the 3rd minute before Memphis Depay met Dumfries' return ball in the 10th and routinely put it into the Yankees' net.
It was a true realization of the fantastic attack of Louis van Gaal's team.
Depay did not make a mistake, and with 43 goals he became the second best scorer in the history of the Dutch national team. Only Robin van Persie is ahead of him with 50...
The end of the half brought another goal and another assist from Dumfries.
This time, the USA found Daley Blind in the penalty area, and he made it 2:0 with his weaker right foot.
At 32 years and 269 days old, Blind became the Netherlands' oldest scorer at the World Cup since Giovanni van Bronhorst, who scored in 2010 when he was 35 years and 151 days old.
The reaction of the American team was expected and it followed.
Several dangerous situations in front of Andris Nopert's goal were scored, and it was fantastic, by Hadzi Wright in the 76th minute, so Greg Berhalter's team started to believe again that they can be in the top eight...
However, the hope lasted only until the 81st and the action turned into a goal by Dumfries - he did it with a kick from the first after Blind's cross.
The match was over there, Louis van Gaal got what he wanted...
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