Since March 2023, when he suffered a muscle injury against Gibraltar, Memphis Depay had not been available for the Netherlands team again until this Friday, in his reappearance in the 4-0 win against Scotland at the Johan Cruyff Arena heading to Euro 2024, without any goals from him, but from Tijjani Reijnders, Georgino Wijnaldum, Wout Weghorst and Donyell Malen, the last two in the final stretch.
Memphis, the top scorer in the history of the ‘Oranje’, with 44 goals in 89 games, then began a sequence of muscle injuries with Atlético de Madrid and its national team that kept him out of each and every one of the Dutch team’s matches. , with whom he is a crucial footballer within the scheme of Ronald Koeman, his coach. He included it at the start this Friday against Scotland, which will also compete in the next Euro Cup (it is included in group A along with Germany, Hungary and Switzerland, while the Netherlands is in D, along with France, Austria and the winner of Wales -Poland) and which he defeated between the initial ups and downs of his game, but with a final victory, less than three months before the final phase. His punch was conclusive.
In the 40th minute, Tijjani Reijnders unbalanced the match. The Milan midfielder scored his first goal as a full Dutch international in the seventh game. It is one of the new values of the ‘oranje’ team. He did not play in the last 2022 World Cup in Qatar, when his team reached the quarterfinals. She was eliminated by Argentina on penalties.
In the friendly, Jeremie Frimpong made his international debut, the right winger who has been causing a sensation for two years in the German Bundesliga, even more so this year with the leadership of Xabi Alonso’s Bayer Leverkusen, in which he is a fundamental footballer. The full-back played for an hour before being replaced by Denzel Dumfries. It had already been changed, when Cody Gakpo intervened again for Wijnaldum’s 2-0 that sealed the duel in the 72nd minute. In the 77th minute, Memphis, without a goal, gave way to Weghorst, who scored 3-0. The 4-0, moments later, was from Malen, also coming off the bench. The fourth consecutive goalless victory against the Dutch team.
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