Crime thriller in Rotterdam – Spain shocked the Netherlands late

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Crime thriller in Rotterdam: Spain shocked the Netherlands late

20.03.2025 – 11:05 p.m.Reading time: 2 min.

Competed game at a high level: penalty area fertilizers in the sixteen of the Dutch. (Source: Peter Dejong/AP)

A spectacle develops between the European champion and the hosts. It becomes dramatic in the final phase. Meanwhile, France collects a bitter damper.

European football champions Spain has won a small advantage in the fight for the final four of the Nations League in a high-class exchange of blows in the Netherlands. On the title defense mission, the Furia Roja came to a 2-2 (1: 1) in Rotterdam on Thursday and remained unbeaten in the 17th game in a row. The second leg will increase in Valencia on Sunday evening.

EM shooting star Nico Williams (9th) and in the majority of Germany-frosted Mikel Merino (90.+3) met in the de Kuip for the Spaniards. Liverpool attacker Cody Gakpo (28th) and Tijjani Reijnders (46th) had meanwhile shot the game in favor of the hosts. In the Dutch, striker Memphis Depay celebrated his comeback in the national jersey after 253 days of abstinence. The Spaniards won the Nation League title in Rotterdam in 2023.

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With 16 out of 18 possible points, the Spaniards had confidently qualified for the quarter -finals of the Nations League, and in Rotterdam the team from de la Fuente initially performed confidently. Williams met Pedri from the turn at the presentation of Pedri.

The Dutch then got better into the game, Gakpo rewarded the efforts into the short corner with a degree. Depay (36.), Jorrel Hato (41.) and Reijnders (43.) then missed the guidance of the hosts before the break. Reijnders then achieved this 39 seconds after the change of sides at the presentation of Leverkusen’s Jeremie Frimpong.

The Spaniards subsequently fought against the defeat and were rewarded after a red card against the 19-year-old Ajax-Youngster Hato (82nd). The ex-Dortmund Merino, who had scored the decisive goal in the European Championship quarter-finals against the DFB team, scored deeply in injury time.

Superstar Kylian Mbappé collected a bitter damper when he returned to the French national football team. In the quarter-final first leg of the Nations League against Croatia, the two-time world champion lost 0: 2 (0: 2) on Thursday in Split. The starting point for the second leg on Sunday (8:45 p.m./DAZN) in the Stade de France in Saint-Denis is now anything but cheap.

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Croatia’s Ante Budimir (26th) and Ivan Perisic (45.+1) ensured the defeat of the Équipe Tricolore, Andrej Kramaric (8th) from TSG Hoffenheim, a penalty. The Vice World Champion from 2018 has been good chances of the final Four for the Nation League title (June 4th to 8th).

With captain David Alaba in the starting eleven, the Austrian national football team missed a big step towards the return to the A-League of the Nations League. In the play-off first leg against Serbia, the ÖFB selection of the German coach Ralf Rangnick did not get beyond a 1: 1 (1-0) on Thursday evening.

Michael Gregoritsch had put the Austrian, which was superior in the first half (37th), Serbia Lazar Samardzic made for the equalization (61st) in front of 46,400 spectators in the Vienna Ernst Happel Stadium.

Portugal also stumbled. With the 0: 1 (0: 0) in Denmark, the 2016 European champion around superstar Cristiano Ronaldo also have to worry about the final Four. Rasmus Höjlund (78th) met for the hosts, in the first half of the game Christian Eriksen had already awarded a penalty (24th)

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