The Netherlands team and the French team will face each other in this Euro 2024 quite soon, and the fact is that, with the gala one of the favorites, and the Dutch team, one of the covered ones, both have fallen into the same group, so that the first position of their group will surely be decided between them.
Poland and Austria will also be in that group D, so it will not be easy to advance to the round. For this reason, we are going to review the confrontations of these two historic teams from the European region in the games they have played against each other:
The last confrontation between the two was quite recent, and they have also been together in the Euro Cup qualifier. In this last match between the two, in Holland, the result was quite even and the locals only lost one, much better than the first leg.
In this first leg of the Euro Cup qualifier, the Netherlands team was not at its best, and the 4 goals they received on French territory did not help at all. Despite everything, they managed to overcome it and qualify for the Euro Cup.
Another of the groups where they were together was in the 2018 UEFA Nations League, where in the second leg, the Dutch were able to overcome the French with goals from Depay and Wijnaldum.
The first leg was more in line with what seems natural between these two teams, and although there have not been many draws, generally the results fall on the French side, as it did in this match thanks to a goal in the 75th minute. Olivier Giroud.
Also in World Cup qualifiers, these two teams have seen each other, who, except in a World Cup, have played everything together. In this case, the return would be pleasant for the rooster team, which would see 2 of the 4 goals scored by Lemar.
In the first leg of that World Cup qualifier that France would end up winning, it would be Paul Pogba, who was in one of the best moments of his career, who would definitively overtake his team for a 0-1 finish.
Man does not live on qualifiers alone, and in this case, it would be a friendly in 2016 that would unite these two European forces. Teams with great players who would end up resolving the match with a goal from Matuidi in the 88th minute after Afellay’s equalizer in the 86th minute.
Another friendly, in this case two years earlier, in 2014, would be the one that would put Benzema on all the covers after scoring one of the two goals that would establish France as the winner of that match.
One of the few Dutch victories, and possibly the most important of all, since it is the only one in an official tournament as such if we do not count the UEFA Nations League. And in a great year for the Netherlands, in 2008, the orange team scored 4 goals to eliminate France from that Euro 2008 Championship.
And finally on this list of 10 matches, possibly the worst of all, or at least the least important since it was another friendly, and on top of that there were no goals. That 2004 match passed without pain or glory in the memory of those present.
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