Netherlands secured the maximum points after defeating Senegal 2-0 in the 2022 World Cup on Monday at the Al Thumama Stadium.
Both teams began the game like a house on fire as they attacked each other from both end.
Senegal should have taken the lead in the early minute of the game after Matthijs de Ligt’s defensive blunder but they failed to capitalise on the goal scoring opportunity.
The Dutch side also had their own fair chance of scoring as Steven Berghuis fails to find the target with a shot from outside the box in the 40th minute.
However, Netherlands broke the deadlock in the 84th minute thanks to a well placed header by Cody Gakpo, to send their supporters into frenzy at the stadium.
The Oranj Boys grabbed the second goal in the additional time of the second half through Davy Klaassen to take the game beyond the reach of Senegal.
The victory put Netherlands joint top with Ecuador on three points while Senegal and Qatar have zero point.
The host will face Senegal in the next game while Netherlands and Ecuador will face-off in the second game on Friday, November 25.
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African teams not always concentrating and holding on till the end of matches
Looks like it’s not only Nigeria that has this problem. Senegal had the game well managed, only to ship 2 dying minute goals. EEEESH.
One down.
This was a game Senegal should never have lost. Not to talk of losing by 2 goal. Their loss was due purely to lack of concentration in the dying minutes of the match.
Josh men! Well said Brotherman Joshua. Senegal lost concentration.
Yea…but SENEGAL still TRIED…
If na SE, na 4 QUICK GOALS dem for SHIP in that DIEING MINUTES…
Thats after COLLECTING like 4 from the FIRST HALF ooo.. then one will begin to THINK if they will use the SECOND HALF to REDUCE the DEFICIT but na then you go just see EGUAVEON make one kind MUMU SUB wey go SCATTER the GAME…
LMFAO!!!!
I mean their SOURSE of INSPIRATION MANE is not there and that FORMER WESTHAM PLAYER was STRETCH off… So that affected more…
What are you saying….when was the last time SE was beating by that margin in a WC game. Are you okay….? If you have problem, deal with it….and stop steering every convo into a confusion. Completely unnecessary comment. Nonsense
LMFAO…
As E dey SWEET US, E dey PAIN dem…(In WIKE’S voice right now)…
LMFAO….
This OLA must you show your DUMBNESS all the time?
Even all MIGHTY BRAZIL that LOST 7-1 to GERMANY in 2014 WC knows that even when there may never be a LAST TIME, there must always be a FIRST TIME to every HISTORICAL EVENT….
The 4 POMO PORTUGAL gave you guys is an EXAMPLE of there will always be a FIRST TIME even when there may never be a LAST TIME…
LMFAO….
Bettt thank your STARS that this PRESENT SE did not make it to the WC under EGUAVEON or PESEIRO if not una for COLLECT WOTOWORIOSLY…
LMFAO……
Lapses of concentration at the back at the most inopportune of time has once again cost an African team at an international tournament.
I’m afraid but Senegal night be set for an early departure from Qatar if they don’t beat the host country in their next match.
Aside from Sado Mane, Senegal just doesn’t have any other star forward who is able to create their own shot. Meaning they lack a player who can create and score on their own.
Senegal has strong and speedy players but unlike Ghanaian players, they lack the skills to turn a match around.
It is not looking good.
Today you made a valid point, what shall we do today for this surprise???
Veer veer oranje….!!!!!!!!!!
Football is played more with the head than with muscles.
That is why Senegal will huff and puff for 90 minutes and still not get a clear sight at goal and Netherlands will use simple intelligent movements to nail them in an 8 minute spell.
Cody and Davy’s movements for the 2 goals were masterclass. That’s the difference a proper footballing education makes.
Holland was a beauty
They exploited spaces, wasn’t aggressive and movements off the ball was magnificent
There’s a BIG GULF between Africa teams esp west Africa and the European nations!
This is SCIENTIFIC FOOTBALL for u….
This is ART AND SCIENCE IN MOTION
Football stopped being an art at the end of the 90s. It is now a science.
That is why I always laugh when my country people say they want to play like they used to play in 1994…..LMAOooo.
And our dullard of a technical director too reamined fixated on exhuming 1994 brand of football until he was found out by upstart coaches and bundled out of both AFCON and the world cup in disgrace……LMAOoo
Football has change. Modern football has change a whole lot. Football is not the same way it was played 3 world cups ago.
That is what Africa has yet to realize.
No foreign coach has ever won the world cup my foot. The world cup with go on for 300 years and an African coach would still not win it.
2 subs, 2 goals….that’s the summary of ‘grooteman’ Van Gaal’s job on the day
You hit the nail on the head. European football is not about players but about scientifically measured tactics. With the advent of data analytics, their coaches can not only identify appropriate players, but they can also experiment with both playing style and tactics. It is not about the players anymore, but about the backroom organization.
Isn’t Bukayo Sako a Nigerian? Put him in SE playing SE tactics and you’ll get a rubbish end product. The difference between Moses Simon and Sako is negligible or between Lookman and Phil Foden, both of whom played for England U20 and U17 world cup winning sides or Declan Rice and Ndidi or can you say Kane is far better than Osimhen? Or even the difference between Mason Mount and Alex Iwobi or Luke Shaw and Calvin Bassey?
The truth is any difference is negligible as to be irrelevant, and when you look at a team like Denmark the only star player is Erikssen and yet they only succumbed 2-1 to England during the Euro semifinals.
We continue to regurgitate the same tactics as if we won the world cup with those tactics. Every game 442, has Nigerian ever experimented with 352 or 343? The tactics are the same as in 1994, two wide-wingers and a Yekini clone. Evenb Ghana laughs at us!
As to play-sequence of how we pass and move, it is even getting worse. Spain and Portugal have embedded their play sequence – derived from Tiki Taka football, into an institution or tradition, that has taken their passing and movement to a high level of sophistication.
Spain and Portugal used to be underachievers never progressing beyond quarter finals. Now they’re potential competition winners.
England emphasizes set pieces and set plays, carefully organizing and practicing moves that they rehearse like they’re actors in a theatre.
Unlike in Nigeria where training is calisthenics and running up and down as if professional players – unlike our domestic amateurs – lack fitness when they’re almost permanently in training for most of the year.
Nigerian coaches are not educated enough for this brand of new football and thinking. Nigerian coaches are mostly ex-footballers who in the main interrupted their education to dedicate it to football. The current football trend of data analytics is beyond them, and one thing I’ve learned about footballers is that even at a young age they’re resistant to learning.
Go to most professions from law to teaching to engineering you’ll see the practitioners moving from one specialty in their field to another, even into their late thirties, but ask an attacking footballer in his twenties to press or learn to tackle or move inside from the wings or overlap or cover defensively … trouble. They will tell you that’s not their position, as if a lawyer would say because his best subject at university is criminal law that is all he can do through out his career.
Even in this internet age where everything is online these people refuse to educate themselves.
European football is not about players Hahahahahahahahaha. You people make me laugh everyday. EUROPEAN FOOTBALL IS NOT ABOUT PLAYERS. INFACT i have had enough of this rubbish you people comment here if that was the case why didnt Netherlands take a team from will twee or England comprise a team of Championship players. You people really need to hear the shit you talk sometimes its funny lol hahahahahahahah¡!!!!!!!
To @Ugo Iwunze, I meant not just about the players. Most players that play in the top leagues of England, Spain and Italy can be composed into a competitive national team with the right coaching and tactics.
Nigeria has the players, there is no point arguing about this player or that player, most professional players in the aforementioned leagues are no more than one or two standard deviations away from each other in ability, skill and endurance. The few exceptions are rare, and this is statistically proven.
Team difference is a matter coaching, playing style and tactics.
I don’t know what you’ve contributed to this discussion beyond your excremental abuse, showing that you are very egotistic. Where are your ideas or suggestion beyond mockery and abuse?
Tristan, what brand of do you drink…Bud, Estrella, Heineken…?? I wish I could order a truck load for you for those sound bites above. Excellent of you.
Dont worry, what you have just written is meant to be only understood by people with high IQs, not some barking imbeciles who know next to nothing other than vomiting thrash just to feel among. So ignore anyone who is trying to cast aspersions on your well scripted write up.
There is a reason why our elders say gold should only be sold to those who know its worth.
Back to your write up. You couldnt have said it any better. Football has gone beyond formations, we are now in the era of information. You will be shocked at the amount of information technical crews mine about opposition players these days…..both quantitative and qualitative info. A good example is the AFCON penalty shootout final where the Egyptian GK was furnished with information on how/where most of Senegal’s kicks will go. If not for their players themselves who didnt keep their sides of the bargain, victory could well have been down to information.
There was a reason why LVG brought in Klassen and Gakpo at the times he brought them in….any surprise both got the goals, any surprise both goals came from the same half of senegal’s central defence. Only the naive would think these are mere coincidences.
Anyone who understands the back-end of football will notice that the moment Diallo was pulled out, the entire left side half of Senegal’s defense lost some balance. It was like pulling out 1 of the 2 main pillars of Solomon’s temple, it was only a matter of time before the whole temple crumbled.
Just a little bit of press and some swift movements here and the champions of Africa were going 2 goals down to this young Netherlands side, thanks to superior information handed out to the boys by a superior coach with superior abilities.
As they say, information is power…..and this is beginning to become evident in the game of football these days.
Like you said, give this Senegal team to Didier Deschamps and he will win another World cup with them.
I really fault the methods of African coaches, always too mechanical and ugly to the eyes. Everything always happens with so much hardwork and physical exertion.
Na so so sense full your plate. Dem suppose call you DR Ogbonkun Abo (meaning sense full plate). This is definitely the era of scientific football.
Tell then Guys era of gra gra soccer is over. See how USA is dominating Wales, most of our players lacks the techniques, ndidi is a prime example everything is gra gra
Wetin come happen after. Se USA come win. They were just lucky. Wales would have finished them if there was more time
Senegal still has a good chance to qualify. On the basis of their performance today, they are capable of winning the remaining games. They played well today, even without Mane, who could have made a difference if he had played. I don’t think Senegal lost concentration as widely believed. The slight superiority of the Dutch was the difference between the two sides. Irrespective of the outcome, the Teranga lions should be proud of their performance today. Good luck to them in their remaining games.
Senegal certainly missed their talisman, Sadio Mane, in that match today with Netherlands. The strike force lacked belief and confidence that Mane usually provid them.
Exactly my BROTHER
Chai! Africa!!! Even senegal wey we dy believe say go perform done dy fumble already…..too bad…
There are going nowhere. Two games more, they are home bound. Mane or no Mane, come home. Senegal even tried. Where is the grandpapa of Africa.?????. You expect too much if, you really dream that any African team will move to the next stage. They will play gra, gra and come home to brag. Please. If you have nothing to do, read your Bible. And stop dreaming. In a Country of blind, one eye man is the king. Didn’t you hear that George Finidi was begging for Portugal’s used jersey for his son. Let’s hope he was not actually begging for money indirectly though.
Am not surprised by Senegal defeat . They are too heavy . Someone spoke about science of football yes that’s true . In modern football nutrition play a major role in team performance. You don’t expect someone who regularly eats fufu to out perform a player who is on vegetables or on Mediterranean dish. Most west African players are cumbersome in their approach .
So how come we eat whatever we eat as west Africans and beat them at junior levels but can’t replicate that at senior levels
Thank you @BADGE…
What about in 2010 when GHANA BEAT USA? lets not forget that in 2006 WC they also BEAT USA..
Was it light FOOD like GOLDEN MORN and CORN FLAKES they were EATING?
What about the 2010 GHANA vs URUGUAY INCIDENT? (GHANA PLAYED their BEST there)
I mean WE all BLAMED the HAND of SUAREZ(HAND of GOD) and also that GHANA and AFRICA was not DESTINED to MOVE beyond the QUARTER FINALS.
And not all these FOOTBALL is FUFU talk…
ME I wanna BELIEVE that the absence of MANE and the STRETCHING of, of that former WEST HAM guy CONTRIBUTED and also like someone said the NETHERLANDS were just SUPERIOR… SIMPLE…
The African will win the under 17,20, Olympics because we all know how they go about it, but those things do not work in the mundial because age by that time has caught up with them big time
Thank you @BADGE…
What about in 2010 when GHANA BEAT USA? lets not forget that in 2006 WC they also BEAT USA..
Was it light FOOD like GOLDEN MORN and CORN FLAKES they were EATING?
What about the 2010 GHANA vs URUGUAY INCIDENT? (GHANA PLAYED their BEST there)
I mean WE all BLAMED the HAND of SUAREZ(HAND of GOD) and also that GHANA and AFRICA was not DESTINED to MOVE beyond the QUARTER FINALS.
And not all these FOOTBALL is and not FUFU talk…
ME I wanna BELIEVE that the absence of MANE and the STRETCHING of, of that former WEST HAM guy CONTRIBUTED and also like someone said the NETHERLANDS were the BETTER side. SIMPLE…
Was it also too much EATING of FUFU that made GYAN to MISS that PENALTY in 2010 that would have sent AFRICA into the SEMI’S for the FIRST TIME EVER?
NO!
WE all BLAMED it on DESTINY, Ill LUCK bla bla bla…
But now the NETHERLANDS came out as the BETTER SIDE over the SENEGALESE and WE are BLAMING it on EATING of FUFU?
SMH…
Tristan, as opulent as your write-up above might appear on face value, it is riddled with holes and semantical ambiguities when you embark on a deepdive on what you wrote.
Quoting you verbatim, you said: “European football is not about players but about scientifically measured tactics.”
To put it bluntly, that statement is inaccurate at best and outright false at worst. World football is definitely about the players. It is the players who interprete the principles of any coach, be it scientific, agricultural, rudimentary or basic.
Footballers matter. They have varying degrees of intelligence, work ethics, potential movements, attributes and applications. You can have all the modern, analytical and avant garde management principles and techniques, without the supremely talented players to interprete your principles, the coach will fail.
Before the advent of this data analytics (that appears to have blown you away), are you trying to tell me that games were not won and lost by experimenting with playing styles and tactics? Are you saying that your so called backroom organisation is a modern construct? If so, you do huge disservice to the great teams and great coaches of old.
Rather than spend much time with these overblown YouTube footbal analytics presentations, perhaps you might want to watch ageless documentaries of great Brazilian, Holland, Cameroon, Romanian, Hungarian and German teams of years gone by to actually marvel at backroom organisation that is grounded in reality.
Football has evolved, no doubt. But that evolution hasn’t in any way stripped the modern game of the key elements to success which are: structure, discipline, organisation, focus, decision making, chemistry, communication, determination, hard work and (yes) intelligence.
When you say, and I quote, that the difference between players (like Moses Simon and Phil Foden or Osimhen and Harry Kane) is negligible at best and irrelevant at worst, then you postulate a theory that is wholly untenable and one that will collapse easily at the slightest contact with scrutiny.
Players do matter, my brother. Some are more gifted, endowed and intelligent than others. Some are more versatile and others are more mouldable and pliable than others. The output you can expect from different players depends on their skills, experience, aptitude, intelligence and application. Some are game-changers and others are not.
We do not – as you say – regurgitate 4-4-2 formation. Gernot Rohr used 4-2-3-1, 4-4-3 and 3-5-2 while Eguavoen, in just 3 months, used 4-4-2, 4-2-4, 4-1-4-1 and 3-3-4 from the start or in-game.
The problem as I see it is not about modern methods of management (incorporating backroom organisation, scientific approach, data analytics). Rather it is about doing the basics right and approaching each game with the highest level of professionalism and concentration for the entire duration of the match.
Look at a case in question: Nigeria’s under 17 women’s bronze medallists. It was clear to all that their tactical and technical approach lacked the depth and content of modern day football. This was evident in their rudimentary movements, their unimaginative passing routines, their disjointed rhythm, their flawed first touches and predictable (at times laughable) all round play.
Yet, organisation, focus, concentration, grit, determination, discipline, having a clear vision, staying the course and maintaining the highest level of concentration meant they were just 1 penalty away from claiming either Gold or at worst Bronze in the tournament.
In senior level, Eguavoen’s tactics and formation weren’t the problem. The Absence of data analytics, backroom organisation or an unscientific approach were not his problem.
Against Tunisia – even with his basic retrofitted 4-4-2 approach – his defensive structure cracked and lost concentration while Iwobi lost his discipline. Against Ghana in Abuja, loss of concentration again led to the sequence of events leading to the fatal away goal while questionable organisation, poor shape, poor decision making on the part of certain players and overall defective application let the team down.
But yes, Eguavoen lacked and still lacked the experience needed to harness the potentials inherent in his own approach whilst adequately identifying underlying weaknesses in his approach. Hence his inability to develop mitigations for the risks and issues that will arise in his philosophy.
Go back and watch Brentford vs Manchester City. You will see how Coach Thomas Frank exploited the inescapable shortcomings in Guardiola’s approach to punish Manchester City.
Liverpool are currently not doing so well. Part of their problem is that other coaches have worked out Coach Jurgen Klopp’s high pressing to then use this to punish Liverpool (this is just 1 part of many problems).
My point: Every coach’s philosophy has holes that can be exploited. Sir Alex Ferguson and Arsene Wenger were holding the reins in the English Premer League before Jose Mourinho came to re-write the rules by showing that there were weaknesses in Man U and Arsenal’s philosophy that other coaches had failed to spot.
Eguavoen, like great coaches, has deficiencies in their approach. Cerezo just lacks the insight, foresigh, speed of thought, time, expertise and experience to make timely adjustments.
In conclusion, modern methods of football management is good, discernable, easily identifiable and supremely efficient. But a highly focused, well drilled, well disciplined, highly organised and well motivated team will still be, at worst, very difficult to break down.
Go back and watch Nigeria vs France at the 2014 World Cup. Keshi’s boys weren’t scientific or contemporary. They were organised and focus only for 80 minutes before it fell apart.
Contrary to what you said, players matter, quality players matter. But with inexperienced coaches like Eguavoen and self harming football infrastructure and a poisoning climate created by the NFF, no team will thrive.
It is not about scientific football. It is about going back to the basics and doing the simple things right, to start with.
Like I said above, take a look at our wonderful Bronze winning Under 17 Women’s team against their USA counterparts in the world cup quarter finals.
Although our girls were agricultural and unscientific in their approach, they nonetheless remained ‘resolute’, ‘organised’, ‘FOCUSED’, ‘disciplined’ , ‘professional’ and they had a clear vision. And what happened, they took the day against all odds and they repeated the same trick against a scientific Colombia where it ended as a draw in regulation time.
The Super Eagles were on their way to narrowly losing 2:1 to Portugal in a recent friendly only for indiscipline, and a total loss of focus and concentration in the dying minutes made the matter worse.
Look at Salisu Yusuf’s homebased team against Costa Rica. A large body of Super Eagles fans (including my humble self) were satisfied with their application even in the respectable 2:0 loss.
The loss to Portugal was a shambles and some of the main Super Eagles team members have grown bigger than their boots.
Poor organisation, indiscipline and poor focus cost us dear against Tunisia and Ghana this year (and thsed factors also cost the Super Falcons dearly against Morocco in the Women’s Afcon) . A child has to first of all learn how to read and write before becoming a science graduate.
We need a root and branch reform, we need to go back to the basics.