Dutchman Georginio Wijnaldum is rejoicing after a goal against Ukraine.
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“Of course we are looking forward to the elimination phase starting. We will have to give our top performance to beat the Czechia,” De Telegraaf quoted De Boera as saying. “They showed what they can do in the basic group, and we will have to prepare carefully for them. We will do a thorough analysis in the coming days,” he assured.
The Dutch, who returned to the top tournament after seven years, have so far won all three matches and have scored more than two goals in the last 10 duels. The captain and with three goals the best Dutch scorer in the Wijnaldum tournament was therefore satisfied with the passing of the round of 16.
Dutchman Georginio Wijnaldum (left) celebrates his shot in a match against Northern Macedonia with Memphis Depay.
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“Not that we underestimate the Czechia, because it’s a good team, but at the same time it’s not a bad opponent for us. If you look at the tournament spider, you’ll see that a lot of famous opponents are on the opposite side. We could have come across a harder juice. however, he also has a good team and we will approach it as a top match, “said Wijnaldum on Voetbal International.
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The Dutch media identified striker Patrik Schick as the main star. “Especially his second goal behind the center line against Scotland flew around the world,” wrote Telegraaf, who also drew attention to a memorable match against the Euro in 2004. At that time, the Czechs turned the unfavorable situation from 0: 2 to 3: 2.
“The times of Pavel Nedvěd, Karel Poborský, Milan Baroš, Tomáš Rosický and Jan Koller, are long gone. Now the Czech Republic has only one great man and that is the one who is trying to establish himself as a former top talent. Schick, former AS Roma player, Leipzig and now Bayer Leverkusen. He is the striker who scored the most sensational goal at the European Championships so far and scored a total of three. Another renowned player is midfielder Tomáš Souček from West Ham, “wrote De Telegraaf.
EURO 2021
The European Football Championship, which was originally scheduled to be played a year ago, it starts on June 11 and ends on July 11. EURO is hosted by eleven countries, the Czech national football team is in group D together with England, Croatia and Scotland. The championship finale is played at the legendary Wembley.
The fact that it will be a completely different Czech team than the one that defeated them 17 years ago was also confirmed by the addressed experts. “It will be difficult with the Czech Republic, but it is by no means the Czechia in the times of Poborský, Koller and Rosický,” said former forward Pierre van Hooijdonk in the NOS and former national team defender André Ooijer added: ” that we have a very good choice that could compete with Germany or Portugal, “added the former representative.
The match will take place on Sunday 27 June from 18:00 in Budapest. The winner will start in the quarterfinals against the best of the pair Denmark – Wales.
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