News.Dutch apply pressure, Czechs pounce

By contrast, the hosts made one of the most of their chances with Dockal creating a brilliant strike to get rid of Cillessen from the 22nd minute. Forward David Lafata held off centre-back Bruno Martins Indi for the edge of the penalty area and dropped the ball time for his Sparta Prague team-mate. The midfielder traverse the ball slightly with his left foot, which gave it enough spin to consider it wide with the goalkeeper along with off the post.

Five minutes before half-time, Hiddink replaced Joel Veltman with Luciano Narsingh while he abandoned his 3-5-2 formation for the more familiar 4-3-3 - even comprising the injured Arjen Robben and Klaas Jan Huntelaar. The substitute had 1 / 2-possible opportunity to draw his side level but could not have a high-bouncing ball in check on the edge of the six-yard area, with Holland's best effort seeing Chelsea's Petr Cech overturn Memphis Depay's long-range strike.

The Netherlands increased pressure following break and were rewarded within 10 mins when, following breakdown of your corner, new Manchester United defender Daley Blind crossed on the far post for De Vrij to outjump Pavel Kaderabek and power home a header.

Which will are already the signal for your Dutch to seize the initiative but, in addition to a Depay header saved by Cech, they failed to create many meaningful chances. And it also was the house side who came to win as, after defender Vaclav Prochazka had headed over Vladimir Darida's cross, they capitalised on Janmaat's mistake.

Friday, September 12, 2014