{"id":1160,"date":"2025-11-15T13:56:03","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T13:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=1160"},"modified":"2025-11-15T13:56:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T13:56:03","slug":"poland-1-1-netherlands-depay-goal-takes-netherlands-to-brink-of-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=1160","title":{"rendered":"Poland 1-1 Netherlands: Depay goal takes Netherlands to brink of World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">The Netherlands as good as booked their place at the 2026 World Cup with a draw against Poland in Warsaw.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They remain three points above the Poles at the top of Group G, with a stronger goal difference by 13 goals, going into Monday&#8217;s final fixtures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Poland, who are guaranteed a play-off place at least, took the lead when Robert Lewandowski played in Jakub Kaminski, who slotted through Bart Verbruggen&#8217;s legs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Ronald Koeman&#8217;s side were level early in the second half when Donyell Malen&#8217;s header was saved and the nation&#8217;s record scorer Memphis Depay scored from the rebound.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That was the 31-year-old Corinthians forward&#8217;s eighth goal of these World Cup qualifiers, only behind Norway&#8217;s Erling Haaland with 14.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Netherlands just need a point at home to Lithuania to be sure of qualification, but even if they lose Poland would need to win in Malta with a goal difference swing of 13 goals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Finland lost 1-0 to Malta earlier on Friday to end their play-off hopes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Netherlands as good as booked their place at the 2026 World Cup with a draw against Poland in Warsaw. They remain three points above the Poles at the top of Group G, with a stronger goal difference by 13 goals, going into Monday&#8217;s final fixtures. Poland, who are guaranteed a play-off place at least,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}