Wales – Netherlands football video: A spectacular chase in injury time (Nations League)

(Football video, football results, Wales – Netherlands, the second round of Group A4 UEFA Nations League season 2022/23) The consecutive goals came in the last 4 minutes of stoppage time to help a team escaped from being held to a draw by the opponent in a dramatic battle in Cardiff.

4 days after a precious 1-0 victory over Ukraine to win tickets to the 2022 World Cup, Wales continues to play at home at Cardiff City to welcome the Netherlands in the second round of Group A4 UEFA Nations. League season 2022/23.

Despite having to march to the field of Wales, the Netherlands opened the scoring thanks to Teun Koopmeiners’ decisive shot close to the penalty area.

Coach Rob Page surprised when he placed Gareth Bale on the bench, although on June 5, it was the superstar who had just left Real Madrid to take a free kick that caused Andriy Yarmolenko on the Ukraine side to head an own goal to help “Dragons” win. attend the World Cup at the end of this year in Qatar. The first half was exciting, but neither Wales nor the Netherlands could concretize the chances they created.

Just 5 minutes after the second half started, Teun Koopmeiners opened the scoring for the Netherlands when the Atalanta midfielder hit a dangerous shot close to the 16m50 line to knock down goalkeeper Danny Ward. Wales then made great efforts to attack and in the second minute of injury time, centre-back Rhys Norrington-Davies headed the right cross from teammate Connor Roberts to bring the game into balance. number.

Rhys Norrington-Davies jumped to score the equalizer for Wales in the 90+2 minute

Thinking that the home team had won 1 point, only 2 minutes later, they conceded again when the Netherlands had a sharp counter-attack when Tyrell Malacia hung the ball very well for Wout Weghorst to score with the same situation. The air battle brought a suffocating victory 2-1 for the army of coach Louis Van Gaal.

Wout Weghorst scored 90+4 minutes to help the Netherlands leave Cardiff with all 3 points

Wales has lost after 2 matches and is still at the bottom of Group A4 of the UEFA Nations League this season, while the Netherlands “Orange whirlwinds” have 6 points to take the top spot in this table, ahead of Belgium and Brazil. Lan with the same distance of 3 points.

Final round: Wales national team 1-2 Netherlands national team (Half score 1: 0-0)

Scored:

Wales national team: Norrington-Davies 90+2′

Netherlands national team: Koopmeiners 50′, Weghorst 90+4′

Starting lineup:

Wales national team (4-4-2): Danny Ward; Connor Roberts, Ben Davies (capt), Chris Mepham, Joe Rodon; Rhys Norrington-Davies, Harry Wilson, Joe Morrell, Dylan Levitt; Daniel James, Brennan Johnson

Netherlands national team (3-4-3): Mark Flekken; Jordan Teze, Stefan de Vrij, Matthijs de Ligt; Hans Hateboer, Teun Koopmeiners, Jerdy Schouten, Tyrell Malacia; Noa Lang, Wout Weghorst, Cody Gapko