{"id":466013,"date":"2023-10-16T17:20:05","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T21:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=466013"},"modified":"2023-10-16T17:20:05","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T21:20:05","slug":"van-dijk-gives-the-netherlands-crucial-win-over-greece","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/van-dijk-gives-the-netherlands-crucial-win-over-greece\/","title":{"rendered":"Van Dijk gives the Netherlands crucial win over Greece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Netherlands came out on top against Greece 1-0 in a tightly contested game to move into 2nd the Group B on Monday night.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">JUST IN TIME! \ud83d\ude24\ud83d\udfe0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NothingLikeOranje?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#NothingLikeOranje<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GRENED?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#GRENED<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QnCfr0nifA\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/QnCfr0nifA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; OnsOranje (@OnsOranje) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OnsOranje\/status\/1714021252354949439?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 16, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It was a pretty stale affair with neither team able to break the deadlock and not many chances in front of both goals.<\/p>\n<p>Wout Weghorst missed a first half penalty as he struck his shot rather unconvincingly to the goalkeeper&#8217;s left, which made for a very easy safe.<\/p>\n<p>The Greeks tried to create chances, but by doing so left themselves vulnerable at the back. As a result, they conceded a last minute penalty for foul play on Denze Dumfries. After a lengthy VAR check the penalty kick was eventually given.<\/p>\n<p>Up stepped Virgil van Dijk and with calmness and precision the 32-year-old gave his team the desired breakthrough.<\/p>\n<p>It is a massive result for the Orange team as they leapfrog Greece for 2nd in the group, behind runaway leaders France, who have all but secured a spot at the Euros.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Netherlands came out on top against Greece 1-0 in a tightly contested game to move into 2nd the Group B on Monday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":466014,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[21162,16984,18719],"news_category":[14236,14235],"gn_keywords":[21163,18423,20712],"acf":{"announce":"Ronald Koeman's men were on the brink of drawing, but then up stepped captain fantastic to give them the edge","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/466013"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/466013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":466015,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/466013\/revisions\/466015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466013"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=466013"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=466013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}