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Dutch Arsenal players in the World Cup
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Holland
Arsenal players in the Dutch team
- Dennis Bergkamp
- Squad number: 8
- age 29. 57 caps coming into the tournament
- At the start of the tournament, still suffering with
the hamstring injury that kept
him out of the last two matches of the season and the cup
final. Said to be fit enough to be on the bench for the opener
at least. If Holland can impress without him in the early
stages it'll bode well for their chances with him later on.
- came off the bench against Beligum
- started against South Korea
- Marc Overmars
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- Squad number: 14
- age 25. 37 caps coming into the tournament
- played against Belgium
- played against South Korea
Matches
Results, comments on Arsenal players' performances, and links to
match reports will appear here shortly after the matches.
- Belgium. 0-0. Saturday June 13th
- Overmars played the whole 90 minutes and had a decent game, but
Holland failed to create enough clear cut chances against a Belgium
team committed to defending. Not unreasonable having lost twice ot the
Dutch in qualifying. Bergkamp came off the bench and looked like he
hadn't played for a while. He had one half chance in the box which
he put wide under challenge.
reports
- South Korea. 5-0 win. Saturday June 20th
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Bergkamp and Overmars both played in this majestic win, the most one-sided
match of the World Cup so far. Bergkamp started his firts match since the
home game against Derby when he got the hamstring injury. He came off
for Van Hoojdonk in the second half, but not before making his
considerable mark on the game and the tournament. Early on he set up a
great (missed) chance for Wonk, after doing some sort of circus trick
with the ball that left several Korean defenders shaking their haeads
in amazement. He had a good left foot shot from the edge of the area
that beat the goalie but went just over. Overmars got into the scoring
with Holland's second, a great right foot goal cutting inside his marker
inside the area, a very familiar sight to Arsenal fans and reminiscent
of one of his very first goals for us (was it the first?). In the second half
Bergkamp forced a save and then got it back for a second attemp which
he chipped just over with the goalie out of his box. Then he scored after
another wonderful piece of skill on the edge of the area, switching the
ball between his feet as he turned and came round 2 defenders before a
classy controlled toe-poke finish. He had another chance which he drilled
just wide, and might just be thinking that he could have practicallt
sewn up the golden boot in this game. Overmars had a good game too,
cropping up on the right as well as the left, and it was a pinpoint cross
from the right which found Van Hoojdonk's head for the 4th goal.
- Mexico. 2-2. Thursday June 25th
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- Yugoslavia. 2-1 win. Monday June 29th
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