The 4th European team with World Cup tickets revealed

Early morning of November 15, the Netherlands almost certainly won a ticket to the world football festival after a 1-1 draw with Poland in Group G of the European qualifying round.

After England, France and Croatia, the Netherlands is 99% certain to become the next representative of the old continent to participate in the tournament taking place in North and Central America next summer.

The "Orange Storm" has 17 points after 7 matches, 3 points more than Poland with a superior goal difference (19 vs 6). In the final round, the Netherlands only have to face the bottom team Lithuania at home. The possibility of Memphis Depay and his teammates losing heavily so that Poland can take the top spot thanks to goal difference is almost impossible.

Poland will have to find a World Cup ticket through the play-off round.

Poland went into the game determined to win and almost opened the scoring after less than a minute. Matty Cash sent a tricky cross that bounced off the bar, giving Nicola Zalewski a great chance, but the player fired the ball into the air to the disappointment of the Narodowy stadium crowd.

The Netherlands played cautiously after the heart-stopping situation at the beginning of the match, controlling the ball a lot but not creating any clear pressure. It was this slowness that made them pay the price in the final minute of the first half when Robert Lewandowski cleverly escaped his man, setting up Jakub Kaminski to sprint in and score the opening goal.

However, it took just a few minutes after the break for the 'Oranje' to restore parity. Kamil Grabara's save from Donyell Malen's header accidentally sent the ball straight to Depay, and the former Barcelona star made no mistake in scoring his eighth goal of the qualifiers.

Poland fought back strongly, but Lewandowski and Michał Skoras were unable to defeat Bart Verbruggen. Meanwhile, the Netherlands played slowly, steadily and maintained the score until the end of the match.

The table situation.

Source: https://znews.vn/doi-chau-au-thu-4-co-ve-world-cup-lo-dien-post1602910.html