{"id":26553,"date":"2026-06-26T12:16:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T12:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/26553\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T12:16:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T12:16:16","slug":"world-cup-van-dijk-assists-as-netherlands-and-sweden-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/26553\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup: Van Dijk assists as Netherlands and Sweden progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Netherlands-Sweden-260626_32098e892aba4e7c4131ed20a5985fd4.webp\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"responsive\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0;border:none;margin:auto;display:block;width:0;height:0;min-width:100%;max-width:100%;min-height:100%;max-height:100%\"\/>Published 4 hours ago <\/p>\n<p>By Joe Urquhart<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1nm5e1u\">Virgil van Dijk provided an assist for the Netherlands in a 3-1 victory over Tunisia as they progressed into the knockout stage of the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The Liverpool captain produced a headed knockdown for teammate Brian Brobbey from a free-kick to double the lead gained by Ellyes Skhiri&#8217;s own goal in Kansas City overnight.<\/p>\n<p>Hazem Mastouri reduced the Tunisia deficit after the half-time break, before Jan Paul van Hecke swiftly restored the two-goal advantage for the Netherlands as they claimed top spot in Group F.<\/p>\n<p>Cody Gakpo, who completed 84 minutes of the match, and Ryan Gravenberch also started for the Dutch.<\/p>\n<p>The Netherlands will now face Morocco in Monterrey in the Round of 32 during the early hours of Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>In the same group, Alexander Isak was selected in attack for Sweden during their 1-1 draw with Japan in Dallas.<\/p>\n<p>The Reds forward was involved in the whole encounter, during which Daizen Maeda and Anthony Elanga were on target for either country as the points were shared.<\/p>\n<p>The result was enough for Sweden to earn themselves a spot in the last 32 as a third-placed team in the group, with their opponents yet to be determined.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere at the World Cup&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Published 4 hours ago <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u200c Published 4 hours ago By Joe Urquhart Virgil van Dijk provided an assist for the Netherlands in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[18240,18241,4781,18237,18234,18242,18244,18243,4508,18236,6789,18233,18239,6,13234,18238,18235,13470],"class_list":["post-26553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-netherlands","tag-alisson","tag-firmino","tag-homepage","tag-klopp","tag-lfc","tag-lfc-news","tag-lfctv","tag-lfctv-go","tag-liverpool-fc","tag-liverpool-fc-match","tag-liverpool-fc-news","tag-liverpool-football-club","tag-mane","tag-netherlands","tag-reds","tag-salah","tag-the-reds","tag-van-dijk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}