In this match, the Netherlands has made a formation for the U.S. attacking force, with Van Dijk, Aké, Timber, Dumfries and Blind unchanged, F.de Jong and de Roon in the center of the pitch, turning it into a defensive midfielder, Klaassen in the attacking midfield, and Depay and Gakpo, who has been in good form lately, in the striker's pairing.
The U.S. lined up 433, with Pulisic, Tim Weah and Jesus Ferreira on the front line, an impactful Musah, Tyler Adams and McKennie in the midfield, and Robinson, Tim Ream, Zimmerman and Dest in the back line, which is the best lineup the U.S. has had so far. This is by far the best lineup in the US.
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As we could see from the beginning of the game, the Dutch midfield was quite backed up, and they were quite wary of the USA's fast attacks. The young and energetic USA team was very fast in front of the goal, so the Dutch also sent out a purely defensive de Roon to help F de Jong to build a wall in the midfield, to prevent the USA from accelerating their attacks, but the USA still managed to get a good shot on goal by Pulisic with 2 minutes remaining, without being offside, which was parried away by goalkeeper Noppert. However, the US still got a good chance from Pulisic in 2 minutes, but the goalkeeper Noppert parried it away. Blind had delayed this goal, and after that, Holland was more careful, and a lot of people stayed in the backfield to check the US attacking formation.
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The U.S. tried to play a pressing attack, but the midfield did not feel comfortable going forward. The Netherlands did not let this opportunity pass, and after a pass through the middle of the field, Gakpo played a direct ball to Dumfries on the right side of the field in the 9th minute, and when he saw where he was, Klaassen had already sprinted towards the line to take away the attention of the defenders. Dumfries played a diagonal 45-degree pass back to Depay, where he followed up with an unmarked 14-yard shot.
After taking the lead at the start of the game, the Netherlands was able to immediately enter a defensive counterattack situation, the United States could only continue to play pressure fast attack, but the Dutch defenders and defensive backs surrounded their backfield quite well, it was difficult for the United States to invade the line of defense on both sides of the ball. Whether it's to DumFries on the right wing, or to his big brother Depay, or even to Blind on the left, he did a good job because Gakpo has the ability to find space and distribute the ball in front of him, so that Klaassen doesn't have to press forward all the time, and tries to stay in the middle of the field to thicken up the defensive zone, making it hard for the U.S. to get over the line.
USA also kept harassing F.de jong, so basically F.de jong didn't have too many chances to go forward in this game, he mostly covered Blind on the left side, which also made USA's Weah couldn't find too many chances to attack in, USA kept concentrating the ball on the left side of the ball to Pulisic later on, and Weah had a nice draw outside the penalty area at the 42:00 minute mark was Weah had a nice shot from outside the box blocked at the 42:00 mark.
Before the end of the first half, it was Dumfries again who got the ball after a throw-in on the right, he waited on the right for a while, the players in the central area were being watched, at this time, Blind came up from the far side of the breath to the 12-yard box to receive the pass and shot directly into the goal, this goal Dest was a bit careless, he did not pay attention to the acceleration of Blind from the far end of the speed, so that there was no one to go to the center of the space to appear in a gap to He was so unaware of Blind's acceleration from the far side of the field that there was no one in the center of the field to block it.
The Netherlands took a two-goal lead into the second half, and the U.S. immediately replaced Jesus Ferreira, who had barely gotten the ball, with Reyna, while the Netherlands, who were leading, also removed Klaassen and de Roon, and replaced them with Bergwijn and Koopmeiners, to strengthen their attacking and counter-attacking effect on the wings, and Gakpo moved back to the center of the field. Gakpo moved back into the midfield.
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After Reyna came on the field, the United States strengthened the side of the attack, and it did increase the effect, the United States had a few attacks to the Netherlands penalty area, the United States continued to change, replaced BrendenAaronson, Haji Wright, Yedlin, and finally in the 76th minute to harvest the goal, Pulisic switched to the right side of the attack to force the ground pass, HajiWright also Haji Wright also went to the front point and flicked the ball, which was originally passed to Wright's back foot, and he barely tried to shoot the ball, but it turned into a strange refraction, and the ball became a strange arc in the air and fell into the goal, which was difficult for the Dutch defense to react to.
Haji Wright came on and really increased the impact, the U.S. played more direct, but they had a leak in the back line, Blind got the ball on the left side of the field at the 80:00 mark, when the U.S. team retreated a lot to the penalty box, and had the Netherlands dead in front of the field, but Dumfries from the right flank to sneak into the penalty area, and had been there for a while and waved, the U.S. team did not find him, and Blind had seen his teammates directly from a very large curved ball around the far end, Dumfries met the ball and jumped up in the air to put the goal to make it 3-1. Blind saw his teammate take a big curling shot to the far post, where Dumfries met it with a jumping aerial shot to make it 3-1.
