The Netherlands have won their only game in qualifying so far with a comfortable 2-0 win over Finland away from home. They have quite a fortunate group with two sides ranked outside the top 100 teams in the FIFA world rankings, leaving Netherlands, Poland and Finland to battle it out for the qualifying spots.
The Netherlands do have some catching up to do as the rest of the sides in the group have played at least one more game than Ronald Koeman’s side due to their involvement in the Nations League. This shouldn’t be too much of an issue for the Netherlands, given the level of opposition that they’ll be lining up against.
Netherlands had a promising Nations League campaign, finishing second in their group behind Germany and only losing one of their six games in the group stages before taking Spain to extra time in the knockout phase. Netherlands scored 13 goals across their six group games, which indicates that they can be free-scoring, especially against a side like Malta.