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For the first time in 2020, Frank de Boer’s team scored more than one goal per game (3: 1).
November 15, 2020, 8:52 PM
Matchday 5 of the UEFA Nations League Quartet 1 Division A began with a match in Amsterdam. The Dutch team managed to make quite a few mistakes in the course of previous matches that they were not entitled to another loss of points, unless of course Frank de Boer and his companions were faced with the task of advancing to the next round. of the competition.
And the first match on a visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina (0: 0) by the “orange” was too mediocre, allowing the local press to return to skating Ronald Koeman’s successor as head coach of the Dutch team. The problem for the hosts in this match was that for the opponents it was the head-to-head showdown in Amsterdam that could give hope of survival in the “elite” round.
In the first half of the briefing, the home team managed to get the ball cleanly under their control, after which they easily managed to gain a score advantage. Already in the third minute, the left side of the “orange” Weindahl could have gotten a curious first ball, the serve from the left flank was cut off at the far post. The Bosnian defenders simply could not organize even a simple transfer of protected opponents to each other, so in both first-half goalscoring episodes, the Netherlands scored in “training mode”.
A simple change of flanks in a positional attack allowed De Boer’s sentinels to stretch the opponents’ defense enough to launch into Wijnaldum’s vacant space, so that in the 6th and 13th minutes, no one could prevent the midfielder. England’s Liverpool fired an empty net. The Netherlands could have secured a third goal before the break, but a clean goal from De Jong’s side, with a similar combination with a wide ball play, was mistakenly disallowed by the side referee with a raised flag. The VAR was not in the match, so no one was able to restore the French brigade’s reputation as a referee.
The beginning of the second half of the match was not much different from the time period played before. The Netherlands amassed goalkeeper Shekic several times with shots from promising positions within someone else’s penalty area, after which they eliminated all questions about the winner of the match. The next wide play directly into someone else’s possessions ended with a hit to an empty goal by Depay, after a lumbago from the right wing of Dumfries.
35 minutes before the end of normal time, it was only necessary to look for the romance of the fight where it was not even close to being observed. Bosnia made a good stretch near the end of a full hour of play, but could not get more than one goal from Prevljak, who was lucky enough to find a spot among the centrals who were gaping from Vishchi’s right wing. The match broke out a couple more times with dangerous blows from both sides, after which it was completed with the referee’s three whistle.
Bosnia and Herzegovina flew to Division B, but De Boer’s team can watch the next match between Italy and Poland with peace of mind.
On the last day of the UEFA Nations League group stage, the Netherlands will play Poland away, while Bosnia and Herzegovina will try to defend the first draw of this cycle (1: 1), obtained in an away match against Italy , but already at home.
Netherlands – Bosnia and Herzegovina 3: 1
Goals: Veinaldum, 6, 13, Depay, 55 – Prevlyak, 63
Netherlands: Krul – Dumfries (Hatebourg, 64), de Vrey, Blind, Weindal (van Anholt, 79) – Klaassen, Weinaldum (van de Beek, 65), F. de Jong – Bergheis (Stengs, 89), L. de Jong, Depay (Promes, 79).
Bosnia and Herzegovina: Šehič – Cipetić, Hadžikadunič, Saničanin, Kolašinac – Simirot, Pjanič (Zilkić, 89), Krunič (Rakhmanović, 78) – Višča (Tatar, 78), Hodžić (Prevljak, 60), Gojak (Danilović, 60).
Warnings: Klaassen – Todorovic, Sanichanin.
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