Euro 2020: Netherlands vs Austria stats highlights: Depay, Dumfries fire Dutch
Netherlands are now unbeaten in 9 matches including this Euro 2020 match, and here are some data branches through OPTA and Stats Perform.
1. Netherlands have opened their EUROs campaign with back-to-back wins for the third time, also doing so in 2000 as hosts – before being eliminated in the semi-final – and 2008, when they fell to Russia in the quarter-final.
2. After losing each of their three group stage games at EURO 2012, Netherlands are now unbeaten in nine matches at major tournaments (EUROs + World Cup), the longest run by a European nation since Portugal went 12 without defeat across the 2014 + 2018 World Cups, with EURO 2016 sandwiched in-between.
3. Austria have suffered defeat in five of their eight matches at the EUROs – all of which have come in the group stages – whilst they failed to score in four of those defeats.
4. After failing to score in his first 19 international matches for Netherlands, Denzel Dumfries has netted in back-to-back games for his country. Indeed, he is just the second Oranje player to net in his first two appearances at the EUROs, after Ruud van Nistelrooy in 2004.
5. Matthijs de Ligt completed 100% of his passes in tonight’s victory over Austria (40/40), a record for a Netherlands player in a EUROs match since 1980.
