‘We deserved to win’

Netherlands outclassed Hungary with a 40 victory in their winnertakesall Nations League encounter on Saturday while recordsetting Germany hammered Bosnia and Herzegovina 70Netherlands and Hungary went into the match tied on five points each and with the winner set to join Germany in ensuring their progress from Group A3 to the quarterfinalsFirsthalf penalties by Wout Weghorst and Cody Gakpo sent the Oranje on their way before Denzel Dumfries and Teun Koopmeiners made the game safe in the second periodldquoThere are always things we can improve uponrdquo Dutch captain Virgil van Dijk told SBS6 ldquoBut in the end we deserved to winrdquoMedical emergency in gameThe match at the Johan Cruyff Arena was briefly interrupted in the seventh minute following a medical emergency on the Hungarian bench The referee stopped play for some 10 minutes while Hungaryrsquos assistant coach Adam Szalai received treatment shielded from view by huddled players and staff members as well as a large white sheetAlso ReadMartin denies Bagnaia to bag first MotoGP World CrsquoshipGermanyrsquos Kai Havertz centre is all smiles after his goal v Bosnia in Freiburg on Saturday PicAFPSzalai 36 was stretchered off to applause from spectators and players alike the Hungarian FA later released a statement saying he was ldquoconsciousrdquo and in a ldquostable conditionrdquo at an Amsterdam hospital Almost forgotten in the aftermath of the worrying incident was the handball by Tamas Nikitscher as the ball was crossed into the Hungarian boxThe referee consulted the touchline video monitor and promptly restarted play by pointing to the spot allowing Weghorst to sweep the Netherlands in front In the 11th minute of added time Dutch dominance told and Malen was clipped by Zsolt Nagy in the box Gakpo dispatched the resulting spotkickRightback Dumfries sealed the Netherlandsrsquo spot in the quarters as he latched onto Malenrsquos flickon at the back post and fizzed a volley back into the far corner shortly after the hour Koopmeiners marked his first international match since 2022 by nodding in a fourth in the 86th minuteBiggest win of tournament Germany cemented their spot at the top of the group with a 70 win over Bosnia mdash the heaviest in the sixyear history of the Nations LeagueldquoIt was good fun tonight After a couple of goals we did the work defensively and then everything came together offensively The more that happens the more fun we have on the pitchrdquo German attacker Jamal Musiala told UEFArsquos websiteMusiala opened the floodgates after two minutes with a header from Joshua Kimmichrsquos cross Tim Kleindienst scored his first goal for Germany in the 23rd minute and Kai Havertz made the game safe eight minutes before the break slotting home after a slick onetwo with Florian Wirtz Wirtz then made it four on 50 minutes with a sublime swerving freekick from wide on the left before doubling up seven minutes laterSubstitute Leroy Sane scored Germanyrsquos sixth in the 66th minute and Kleindienst completed the rout just over 10 minutes from time as he guided home a pinpoint cross from centrehalf Antonio Rudiger The result leaves Germany five points ahead of Netherlands with one match left to playThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever