NED vs AUT 2-3 (0-1)
June 25, 2024 at 5:10 pm Leave a comment
(6′) 1-0 Austria, own goal Donyell Malen. As things stand Austria are top of Group D.
BBC (18′): Confident play from Austria, they have complete belief in what they are doing.
Netherlands 1-1 Austria (47′) Xavi Simons delivers a lovely ball into Cody Gakpo. Defensively, you have to do better. Gakpo opens up his body and passes it into the far side.
Romano Schmid scores 2-1 for Austria! (59′)
It’s really good patient play down the left-hand side. Florian Grillitsch sends in a brilliant cross from close to the by-line and Romano Schmid advances with a diving header.
The Netherlands were ahead for all of 12 minutes.
The Austria fans are all on their feet waving scarves, shirts and flags as they continue to celebrate their second goal, and applaud the players going off.
The Dutch fans are also stood up, but were whistling loudly to show their disapproval at how long those Austrian substitutions took.
Leopold Querfeld coming on – he and Seiwald can not stop Gakpo from scoring – 2-2 (76’)
Sabitzer !!!!!! Austria 🇦🇹 now with 3-2 in the lead (80′): Christoph Baumgartner’s ball finds Marcel Sabitzer on the left-hand side and it’s a glorious strike with his left foot into the roof of the net.
What a finish! Marcel Sabitzer is a player who has been terrific.
Brilliant game.
Baumgartner shortly afterwards almost 4-2, but he’s offside.
Six added minutes, Austria still 3-2 in front. “Sieg! Sieg! Sieg!” the Austrian fans are shouting.
What. A. Pleasure. Tears of joy after the final whistle!
Quite outstanding, loved every minute of it. Ebbed and flowed (Stephen Warnock on BBC).
Austria are a well balanced team with a good work ethic and well coached – a pleasure to watch.
They fully deserved the points, they deserved to get the result because of the work they have put into that game.
Outstanding from Austria. To the Netherlands’ credit, they did twice fight back to level but Austria’s never-say-die attitude got them a well-earned win.
They are going to cause someone problems whoever they face in the knockouts.
Man of the match: Marcel Sabitzer
Thomas Hitzlsperger: There is a great bond between the Austrian team and the manager. Ralf Rangnick was offered the Bayern Munich job and he turned it down.
The Times:
“What do you get if you cross a dark horse with a red bull? Something like this snarling beast of an Austria team, which flattened Holland in this classic European Championship match and may trample more illustrious teams under its hooves yet.”
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