When England saw off the Czech Republic, who knew they were beating one of the teams of the tournament?
How confident must John Stones and Harry Maguire be, knowing that by repelling Patrik Schick, they silenced one of the hottest strikers in the competition?
Schick might end up with the Golden Boot after his fourth in four games finished off the Netherlands and secured a quarter-final with Denmark. With the Dutch out and Italy struggling past Austria on Saturday night, we really ought to stop mapping out routes to semi-finals and finals. The current state of international football makes this the most open tournament in recent memory, every nation capable of eye-catching professionalism in one game and rank amateurism in the next. This last-16 tie proved to be the Netherlands' date with disarray, their 2-0 defeat largely self-inflicted.
Impressive for two weeks, evidently those comfortable group wins camouflaged the flaws many had identified prior to the competition (and Crystal Palace fans will say they noted during the Dutch coach’s ten week, goalless Selhurst Park reign).
In fairness to Frank de Boer, there were obvious mitigating circumstances for his side’s calamitous second half in the Ferenc Puskas Stadium.
Everything changed in 27 seconds, six minutes into the second half. First, Netherlands striker Donyell Malen dashed through to face Czech keeper Tomas Vaclik, paused and squandered his country’s best opportunity.
Fifty seconds later De Ligt punched the ball away to prevent Schick from a clear, goalscoring chance.
De Ligt got his position wrong, lost his man Schick, stumbled and then compounded it all by clawing at the ball in desperation - EPA
Having been initially booked by Russian official Sergei Karasev, Var correctly advised another look. The red card was inevitable, and with that the Czechs went from dogged adversaries to the most dominant force, expertly making the most of their numerical advantage.
They took the lead on 68 minutes courtesy of a well-worked free-kick, Tomas Holes finishing after Tomas Kalas headed Antonin Barak’s set-piece.
Tomas Holes celebrates scoring the opening goal - SHUTTERSTOCK
Outstanding throughout in his midfield role, Holes was the provider for Schick ten minutes before time. By then, the ten men Dutch were experimenting with as many formations De Boer could remember from the Uefa manual.
Not for the first time, the Var should be commended for enhancing the entertainment, facilitating a surprising, frantic conclusion. It was a decent game before the incendiary incident, but the general pace had dropped towards the end of the second half to such an extent the mind was already wandering towards extra time.
The Dutch’s pacey front men had started well, and De Boer will be right to argue they would have drained the Czech defenders far more had they kept eleven men on the pitch. Denzel Dumfries and Memphis Depay had the beating of the Czech full-backs, although too often they reached the destination of the penalty area seconds early for Malen and any supporting midfielders.
Dumfries was closest to a first half goal, latching onto Stefan De Vrij’s long ball on 13 minutes. He was fended off by Bristol City’s Kalas.
The right winger was unlucky when his 39th minute cross was blocked by Vaclik’s legs. Depay would have tapped in.
A group of very stunned Dutch men - REUTERS
Yet while the Dutch threatened, the Czechs were creating clearer chances, West Ham’s Tomas Soucek heading wide and Barak denied by a last ditch and legal De Ligt deflection.
What was really impressive was how the Czech’s moved through the gears when they could smell blood, piling forward with pace and power. So good were they in that spell, one wondered whether they had been over-cautious against eleven men.
So often in the knockout stage it feels like opponents will have a go at each other for 30 minutes, and if their opening burst does not yield a reward they are already watching the clock.
The Czechs were worthy victors - GETTY IMAGES
The teams had to contend with energy-sapping conditions in Budapest, so it was naive to anticipate a sustained high tempo, but the Czechs certainly located one when the circumstances demanded.
Now either they or Denmark will be in the semi-finals. No-one will tip either to go further. We might all be wrong. Lest we forget, the last time the Euros’ final was at Wembley in 1996, the Czechs made it to London.
The quarter-finals have their dark horses. In a competition in which everyone has exposed vulnerabilities and inconsistencies, predictions are futile.
06:17 PM
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Well played to the Czechs. I thought they showed some bottle against England, and they showed some more of it here. Holes and Schick are a threat, and with battlers like Soucek and Coufal they won't be an easy prospect. They face the Danes in the next round. And it has to be said that one of England, Germany, Sweden and Ukraine will then meet either Czech or Denmark in the semi.. Anyway, that's all for another day. Meantime, well done to the Czech Republic, worthy winners on the day.
Gary Neville says that de Ligt "showed his inexperience. The experienced defender, if he slips and makes a mistake, doesn't make another one. Let the forward go through and score. You've still got 11 on the pitch."
That 27 second period decided the match. Malen was through, tried to go around the keeper but was denied. The Czechs went up the other end, de Ligt committed the foul, and they never recovered.
05:59 PM
Holes on target
Czech Republic's midfielder Tomas Holes heads home - AFP
05:56 PM
Full time: Netherlands 0 Czech Republic 2
The Czech Republic are through to the quarters! The sending off of de Ligt was the key moment, no question, but the Czechs still had to score, and they did that twice. They bossed that second half, you have to say. Shame about the red (although it was the right call) but the Czech side deserved that. The Dutch wilted.
05:56 PM
90+mins: Netherlands 0 Czech Republic 2
The time is up, Berghuis lofts an aimless cross out for a goalkick and that is going to be that.
05:53 PM
90+mins: Netherlands 0 Czech Republic 2
Promes kicks Coufal. Chance to eat up a bit more time. That's about three of the six minutes. Stick a fork in the Dutch lads.
05:51 PM
90+mins: Netherlands 0 Czech Republic 2
Pat Schick, who must be well on his way to national hero status, is coming off. Barak's also getting a blow. Big cheer for him and all.
"Maybe not as easy on the eye as some of these Dutch players, but these Czechs are solid, solid citizens," says McCoist.
05:50 PM
89 mins: Netherlands 0 Czech Republic 2
Berghuis comes forward with it but loses out. Czechs can pick the ball up, carry it down the other end (I don't mean like in rugby - I mean dribble it) and they run it down to the corner flag, and then win a corner.
This is going to be a famous win.
Mind you, the officials have somehow found 6 minutes to add on. No, me neither.
05:49 PM
88 mins: Netherlands 0 Czech Republic 2
Barak is through and has a chance to wrap this up for good. Poor touch.
05:47 PM
86 mins: Netherlands 0 Czech Republic 2
Don't get the sense that the Dutch fancy their chances. "They look a beaten team," says McCoist.
Winner of this plays Denmark in the quarters. Winner of that plays one of England, Germany, Ukraine and Sweden in the semi....
05:45 PM
85 mins: Netherlands 0 Czech Republic 2
Kral comes on for Holes, who has been super.
05:44 PM
83 mins: Netherlands 0 Czech Republic 2
Dumfries with a strange piece of play, leaps up at the Czech keeper and it looks like he has tried to Hand of God it into the goal. Makes no contact.
Ref ticks him off, De Jong comes over to run his yap and is booked. Cannae see them being in the next round so who cares.
05:41 PM
82 mins: Netherlands 0 Czech Republic 2
Netherlands haven't had a shot on target in this half.
05:40 PM
81 mins: Netherlands 0 Czech Republic 2
Two more subs for the Dutch. What they need is two more goals.
Timber on for Blind. Berghuis on for the sub-par Van Aanholt.
05:39 PM
GOAL! Netherlands 0 Czech Republic 2 (Schick 80)
Holes with a really quality run, he sees an opening and powers through it, then he produces a cute little cut back and Patrik Schick is arriving perfectly on time to tuck that away and that is 2-0.
Barak to Masopust... attractive curling shot, but not enough power on it. Can the Czechs keep their nerve for 15?
05:32 PM
73 mins: Netherlands 0 Czech Republic 1
Weghorst, he's a lovely big boy isn't he? He's coming on. Tallest nation in Europe the Dutch of course. Six foot six and strong looking with it.
De Roon, Wayne's Dutch cousin, comes off.
05:31 PM
72 mins: Netherlands 0 Czech Republic 1
Celustska clatters Depay, so Netherlands have a freekick into the box, Promes has a little lie down in the Czech penalty area, hoping that the Russian ref is minded to even things up some. No. Just no. Never a foul, get up.
05:29 PM
70 mins: Netherlands 0 Czech Republic 1
What have the Dutch got? Wijnaldum looks to drive them on, drive them forward.
05:27 PM
GOAL! Netherlands 0 Czech Republic 1 (Holes 68)
Czechs have a freekick down by the corner flag. Kalas heads it back across, and Holes has a great chance... puts the nut on it and that's a goal.
05:26 PM
67 mins: Netherlands 0 Czech Republic 0
Schick gets down the byline, crosses. Into the arms of Stekelenburg and that's an awful bit of goalkeeping. Into the hands and again... drops the ball beyond the goal line. Lucky for him, not in the goal.
Stekelenburg looking like a goalkeeper who’s averaged fewer than 10 league games a season for the past 8 years
Oh that should have been the goal! Ball comes over from the right, drops nicely for Kaderábek, who has loads of time and picks his spot... sidefoots it, the goalie's never stopping that... But a heroic block from Dumfries saves the ay.
05:18 PM
60 mins: Netherlands 0 Czech Republic 0
Czechs the ones turning the screw, they look pumped. They go close from a corner.
Dumfries is in his own box defending that corner and he's flapping his arms about... Var has a look at that.
05:16 PM
58 mins: Netherlands 0 Czech Republic 0
Frenkie de Jong drives forward, looking to drive his side on.
Dutch make a change: Malen is the sacrificial lamb, with Quincy Promes the man who comes on.
05:15 PM
56 mins: Netherlands 0 Czech Republic 0
A nothing freekick, Dumfries carries the ball away from that, and Coufal drags him down. Clear yellow. Stupid foul really.
05:13 PM
55 mins: Netherlands 0 Czech Republic 0
Netherlands are down to ten men, and they face a freekick on the edge of their own box. Coufal hits it into the wall.
05:12 PM
53 mins: Netherlands 0 Czech Republic 0
VAR CHECK!!
Right up the other end, Schick looks like he is through. De Ligt loses his footing, panics, hauls down Schick and handles the ball. He's booked - but VAR is having a look. Was that a handball? Was he the last man? Was it an obvious goal scoring opportunity?
I'm saying that is Yes, Yes, and Yes.
The referee is going over to have a look at the monitor....
Matthijs de Ligt is off! Red card!
Matthijs de Ligt was sent off in the second half - Pool via REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo
05:10 PM
51 mins: Netherlands 0 Czech Republic 0
Ooh that is the biggest chance yet. Malen is through, just the keeper to beat, tries to go round him.... keeper pounces on the ball and denies the forward.
05:09 PM
49 mins: Netherlands 0 Czech Republic 0
Dumfries down the right but that is a poor pass for Malen. They could have been in there.
05:06 PM
47 mins: Netherlands 0 Czech Republic 0
Kaderábek scored the last time these sides met...
that was in qualifying for Euro 2016 which the Dutch didn't make, if memory serves. Anyway, Kaderábek scored in a 3-2 win for the Czechs.
He's okay to carry on but got a whack there so the docs will be keeping an eye.
05:06 PM
46 mins: Netherlands 0 Czech Republic 0
Second half kicks off, Dumfries has elbowed Kaderábek in the head as they go up for a ball.
Freekick, and a yellow card.
04:51 PM
Half time: Netherlands 0 Czech Republic 0
The Netherlands made a hot start but the Czechs seem a resilient team, and they've had arguably the best chance, when de Ligt had to throw himself in the way of Barak's shot.
Even steven, you'd fancy the Dutch to do this with the quality they have but far from certain. I don't think either of these would have much of a chance against a France, a Belgium etc.
Netherlands with some patient build up... Depay with some classy skills, drawing two defenders to him, slipping it through, and Van Arnholt screws his shot pitifully wide. Miles off again. Dunno if that lino's got a frozen shoulder or something but he's extremely reticent to get the flag up.
Anyhoo, that's the end of the first dig.
04:46 PM
44 mins: Netherlands 0 Czech Republic 0
Ball into the Dutch box, the formidable Soucek goes up for it but that's a clear shove on Dumfries.
04:45 PM
42 mins: Netherlands 0 Czech Republic 0
Blind finds Van Arnholt with the cross field ball, but he's miles off. Late flag. Daylight? You could have got a bus through there.
04:40 PM
39 mins: Netherlands 0 Czech Republic 0
Netherlands go down the other end, Dumfries drives into the box, fires it in, it's blocked by the goalie using his, erm, inner thigh.. very close to being nutmegged! All hands to the pump for the Czechs now as they hack clear.
End to end stuff here now.
A tough, close contest: Czech Republic's midfielder Tomas Soucek (L) fouls Netherlands' midfielder Georginio Wijnaldum - AFP
04:39 PM
37 mins: Netherlands 0 Czech Republic 0
Best chance of the game - and it's the Czechs who have it! Masopust breaks, slips it to Barak in the inside right channel and he has time and space.... shoots... but a desparate lunge from de Ligt saves the day.
Dutch clear the corner.
04:34 PM
34 mins: Netherlands 0 Czech Republic 0
Czechs have a corner of their own now. Barak with a weak delivery. Move stays alive though,ball back in, Schick is lurking with intent but the keeper gets there.
Both sides lacking a bit of quality with their delivery. Netherlands the better side I think most people would agree but Czechs carrying some threat.
I think the true big guns of the tournament would put both of these back in their box without too much trouble from what I've seen over the previous three games and this.
04:32 PM
32 mins: Netherlands 0 Czech Republic 0
That corner half cleared, and then Patrick Van Arnholt fires a nondescript shot in.
04:32 PM
30 mins: Netherlands 0 Czech Republic 0
Malen and Dumfries link up nicely, good bright move, and the former gets his shot in. The Czechs are defending as a unit though and have men back throwing themselves in the way.
Corner, and then another corner soon after.
04:29 PM
28 mins: Netherlands 0 Czech Republic 0
Czechs were getting a bit of a roasting earlier but it's more even these last eight or ten minutes.
04:27 PM
26 mins: Netherlands 0 Czech Republic 0
Frenkie de Jong showing all his class at the back there to muscle Masopust off it.
Watching Looking at map#NEDCZE of Scotland 🤝 Didn’t expect to find Dumfries in that location
Drinks break. It's Amstel vs Staropramen. GSM the Czechs on this round.
04:22 PM
22 mins: Netherlands 0 Czech Republic 0
I didn't think the Czechs were anything to write home about against England but they stuck to their work, they didn't panic, and they played some okay football at times.
Clearly their looking to hit on the break here. Masopust with some nice hold up, and then finds Sevcik... good cross... there's Soucek in the middle! Header wide.
Blind not tight enough in the defence there. A wee warning for the men in Orange that.
04:20 PM
20 mins: Netherlands 0 Czech Republic 0
Dutch have a free from the right. Depay's ball in is a bit weak. Cleared.
04:18 PM
18 mins: Netherlands 0 Czech Republic 0
Van Arnholt puts the afterburners on, and Depay releases him at just the right time. That's well defended as it turns out.
04:17 PM
15 mins: Netherlands 0 Czech Republic 0
Blind playing some nice passes. Sends Dumfries through, Vaclik races out. Kalas has to slide in and help his keeper, who had abandoned his post rather.
Czechs are getting a proper workout here but, to be fair, not panicking.
04:11 PM
10 mins: Netherlands 0 Czech Republic 0
Oooh, it's all Netherlands. Depay a menace. Another corner. Cleared. The Dutch well on top.
04:09 PM
8 mins: Netherlands 0 Czech Republic 0
They take it short, Blind delivers a wicked ball in, and de Ligt has got free at the back post! He's just got to nod it in, but he nods it back across with the goalie gone for all money.
04:08 PM
6 mins: Netherlands 0 Czech Republic 0
Dutch starting to turn the screw a bit here. Depay looks bright. They've won a corner here.
04:05 PM
4 mins: Netherlands 0 Czech Republic 0
Bit of a scatty start from both sides in fact, the Dutch make a cheap foul on Soucek but rather than playing to their strengths and loading the box, the Czechs get cute, take it short, and make a total mess of it.
04:02 PM
1 mins: Netherlands 0 Czech Republic 0
That's a poor start from the Czechs, they've gone to sleep and allowed an easy cross in from the left, and there's the danger man Dumfries left totally unmarked at the back stick! Lucky for them, the cross is over hit.
04:00 PM
It's the Czechs who will kick us off
They are all in white. The Dutch,you'll never guess, are in orange.
Holland: Stekelenburg, de Vrij, de Ligt, Blind, Dumfries, Frenkie de Jong, de Roon, van Aanholt, Wijnaldum, Depay, Malen. Subs: Veltman, Ake, Wijndal, Berghuis, Promes, Krul, Klaassen, Gravenberch, Weghorst, Bizot, Timber, Gakpo.
Netherlands vs Czech Republic, Euro 2020 live: score, team news and latest last-16 updates - Reuters
03:56 PM
Anthem time
Czechs go first.
Czechs
03:55 PM
Teams come out
Looks absolutely packed out in the stadium. You can't get Covid under a far right government, you see. Phew! That's lucky. How comes each country in the Euros gets to make its own Covid policy? Hampden had, what, 9000? 12,000? Quarter or a fifth full. This looks absolutely cheek by jowl.
03:53 PM
Ally McCoist
in the house for ITV, Seb Hutchinson the comms
03:48 PM
Fans
Netherlands vs czech republic euro 2020 last 16 live score team news latest updates - Reuters
03:47 PM
Gini Wijnaldum
has said he will wear a rainbow armband and that he will lead the team off if there's any abuse.
"Been quite complicated with Ben and Mason. They have had to work mainly entirely on their own. Some small group work very distanced but not been with the full squad/team training sessions..
"The instructions from PHE have been very specific and very clear and we have had to follow that."
"There is the training and also the psychological part, a lot of time on their own. Hard for the two boys, you come to a major tournament wanting to be involved. Isolating is difficult for anybody."
"I have to do the meeting for the team and then do it again on Zoom for those two boys!"
"We have to be good enough to beat Germany. Big game players, Champions League winners, they have come through a tough group. We will have to be at our very best to win the game."
Pougatch asks him do you have to play with the handbrake off now and Gareth, with just a hint of steel, bats it back at him, and asks him can he be more specific. Pougatch says do you have to play with more pace, get up the field etc.
"Well those things are always out ambition. We played four attacking players in the matches so far. We don't tell the players, don't move the ball quickly, don't attack. The opposition also dictate what you can do in football matches."
"I don't need to demystify it. The history is an irrelevance for them. We have boys born into the 2000s, which is obviously scary for us Mark but is the reality of the group we are dealing with. It is of no consequence what we did in 1970, Peter Bonetti what happened in 1990 and so on.
"It's not something we are speaking to them about, they are making their own stories, this is how they should view this, as an opportunity."
Penalties? "We have created a process, we have won our last two shoot outs. We practice but we are not making too big a thing of it."
03:28 PM
ITV are on this game
Nigel De Jong has had a good tournament. Seems such a pleasant and thoughtful chap; hard to imagine he is the same fellow who drop-kicked Xabi Alonso in the chest!
Our line-up for the Round of 16 match against @OnsOranje. @tomassoucek28 is the captain instead of injured Vladimír Darida who is replaced by Antonín Barák. Pavel Kadeřábek replaces Jan Bořil and Petr Ševčík is in the starting XI instead of Jakub Jankto.#NED 🆚 #CZE#EURO2020pic.twitter.com/tupwfg1mii
— Czech Football National Team (@ceskarepre_eng) June 27, 2021
02:48 PM
Teams are in
Holland: Stekelenburg, de Vrij, de Ligt, Blind, Dumfries, Frenkie de Jong, de Roon, van Aanholt, Wijnaldum, Depay, Malen. Subs: Veltman, Ake, Wijndal, Berghuis, Promes, Krul, Klaassen, Gravenberch, Weghorst, Bizot, Timber, Gakpo.
As you will no doubt recall, these came third in the group that had England and Scotland in it.
They had the better of it against Scotland: the match will be remembered for the Patrik Schick belter from halfway but they won handily all round I would say.
Draw with Croatia was solid enough.
They were second best against the English, certainly in the first half, but gave Gareth's boys plenty to think about in the second. They've got some attractive ball-players. The West Ham duo of Coufal and Soucek look their most dynamic factors, for me.
02:34 PM
Route to this stage: Netherlands
Netherlands are one of three sides who won all three of their group games (Italy and Belgium the others)
They beat Austria, Ukraine and North Macedonia. I'd say the Austria form holds up quite well, they gave a good account of themselves against Italy last night and would have been 1-0 up were it not for a very tight offside/Var.
The Dutch scored eight in the group stages, letting in two.
not to be confused with Bucharest - as those French fans did the other day!
Here are some pictures from the Hungarian capital.
Netherlands fans with flags in a fanzone before the match - Reuters
Netherlands fans pose outside the stadium before the match - Reuters
01:24 PM
Netherlands vs Czech Republic preview
the match kicks off at 5pm, the coverage on ITV starts at 4.15pm. I'll be here to bring you all the team news and the build up - but in the meantime, I will hand you over to my esteemed colleague Luke Edwards to set the scene. Luke, you have the floor...
The Johan Cruyff Arena is bouncing in the way only jubilant Dutch fans can make a stadium vibrate, each song and chant infused with the raw energy of a techno dance track.
Holland are putting on a show, slicing apart an already beaten North Macedonia with some of the most imaginative attacking football seen at this European Championship. Captain Georginio Wijnaldum has just narrowly missed out on a hat-trick, his shot flying over as Memphis Depay finally delivers the sort of performance a player who is joining Barcelona should be producing for his country.
Having gone into the tournament apparently out of kilter, Holland have turned into a side nobody will want to face in the knockout rounds. They have scored more goals than anyone and will attack you constantly, relentlessly probing when they have the ball, but also able to transition quickly on the counter-attack. They have pace and athleticism all over the pitch but there is one man who makes Holland tick – he is the puppet master, the conductor, the artist.
His name is Frenkie de Jong, he is the best young player in Europe and is proving it in his national colours. When his number, 21, was held up with 12 minutes left to play on Monday, the whole stadium stood to applaud. De Jong took his time leaving to show his appreciation to all four sides of his former home stadium at Ajax. The roar that came back each time sent goose bumps running up your arms. De Jong is loved and is repaying that love.
His performances as the playmaker in a vibrant Holland team have been outstanding. He controls everything: the pace of the team’s play, whether they pass short or long. Every team Holland faced in the group stage tried to shut him down and failed. He is running games, not playing them. If you try to press him, to rush and harass, even if you do it with two players rather than one, De Jong is more likely to thread a pass through those coming towards him than pass backwards to retain possession. That makes the opposition hesitant to put pressure on.
If the tactic is to press high, De Jong makes the players asked to do it reluctant to follow instructions. But if you stand off and let De Jong assess his options, he is just as lethal, looking for the runs of Depay, Wijnaldum, Donyell Malan or Wout Weghorst in front of him, or waiting for one of Holland’s two rapid wing-backs, Denzel Dumfries or Patrick van Aanholt, to offer width outside.
They have known how special De Jong is in Amsterdam since he signed for Ajax, aged 18, after only two first-team appearances for Willem II, in 2015. Unlike most of Ajax’s young players, De Jong had not come through their own academy, but if anything that makes him even more popular around the rest of the country.
Ajax are Holland’s biggest and most popular club, so they inevitably attract a lot of resentment, too. De Jong learnt his football elsewhere and while he is indeed one of Amsterdam’s favourite sons, playing in the centre of midfield in the Ajax team who reached the Champions League semi-finals and won the league and cup double in 2019, there is a feeling he belongs to the country rather than just its largest city.
At the age of 24, De Jong is coming of age as an international player after two testing years at Barcelona. He had a difficult first campaign in a fading side following a £75 million move, but there were performances last season that showed he was getting to grips with things in La Liga. Barcelona intend to build around him, which is why they were so keen to sign Depay. The two are used to playing with each other for Holland and the understanding between them has been a feature of the team’s three Euro 2020 wins so far.
De Jong’s performances should also be the benchmark for England’s new generation. He has far more international and club experience than Mason Mount, Jack Grealish and Phil Foden and is shaping games rather than merely featuring in them. He is two years older than Mount, three years older than Foden and one year younger than Grealish. As exciting as those players undoubtedly are, they are not yet in the same elite category as De Jong. The same is true of Marcus Rashford, someone who can match him experience-wise.
As for Holland, unless someone finds a way to stop De Jong, they are going to be very hard to beat.
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