France 4-0 Netherlands
Well, who saw that coming?
Certainly, not Holland.
For the betting odds will now tell you that the Netherlands, semi-finalists at the World Cup in 2014, are unlikely to be going to Russia next summer.
The country that gave us ‘total football’ will not be able to thrill sports betting fans on the biggest stage of all.
Football games between these two giants are supposed to be close!
Granted, this contest was still in the balance until Holland had been harshly reduced to 10 men, courtesy of a quick-fire double booking for midfielder Kevin Strootman.
But this match, which sends France clear at the top of Group A, was ultimately as one-sided as the scoreline suggests.
Antoine Griezmann set Les Bleus on their way before the in-demand Thomas Lemar added a few more noughts to his valuation with his first goals for the national team.
Hours after Arsenal reportedly failed in a £92 million pound bid, Lemar lit up the Stade de France on his sixth appearance for his country, his first being a superb volley from the edge of the area.
Don’t be surprised if he does end up at a new club by the time you read this!
It was left to PSG bound Kylian Mbappe – how sad for AS Monaco they have lost so many of their top players this summer – to deliver the coup de grace and inflict Holland’s heaviest defeat in a competitive game.
Dick Advocaat may have settled things slightly since his return to the helm but it won’t be enough for a nation in serious danger of missing out on a major finals for the second time in a row.
‘Oranje’ seem in transition and anything other than victory at home to Bulgaria this weekend will spell their end of their qualifying hopes.
France have one foot at Russia 2018, Holland are a footstep away from elimination.
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