Goals from http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Robin-van-Persie-c31380 and Luciano Narsingh secured a hard fought win over the Crescent-Stars, as the Flying Dutchmen claimed their first competitive win under the leadership of new coach Louis van Gaal.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Netherlands-c753 commenced their 2014 World Cup qualification campaign brightly, when they cruised to a hard fought 2-0 win over Turkey at Amsterdam Arena on Friday, September 7.
Ay Yıldızlılar started the match aggressively, and put immense pressure on the Flying Dutchmen’s defence. However, they failed to create any clear cut goalscoring opportunity.
The home side settled in slowly, but as the game progressed, they started to assert their authority. Plenty of crosses were sent in, but the Turks back-line easily coped with them.
The Oranje faced the opening scare of the game inside the opening 15 minutes. Serious miscommunication between http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Bruno-c8098 Martins Indi and the goalkeeper, Tim Krul, almost led to an own goal. However, Martins Indi did well to clear the ball of the line at the
end, much to the relief of Louis van Gaal.
In the 19th minute, the Flying Dutchmen took the lead through Robin van Persie. A http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Wesley-Sneijder-c36799 corner was perfectly headed into the bottom right corner of the net by the Manchester United striker.
After conceding the goal, the Crescent-Stars replied positively, and dominated proceedings at Amsterdam Arena. Sercan Sararer shot straight at Krul three minutes later, while Arda Turan fired wide of the target after going one-on-one against the Newcastle
United goalkeeper a minute later.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/PSV-c40281 Eindhoven winger failed to even test the Turkey goalkeeper from the edge of the box.
At the stroke of half-time, Umut Bulut’s header struck the crossbar, much to the dismay of the Crescent-Stars head coach, Abdullah Avci.
Van Gaal brought http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Leroy-Fer-c22126 moments later.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Hamit-Altintop-c15652 from hitting the back of the net.
Sneijder and Robben made some decent moves down the left flank, but failed to pierce through the Turkish defence, while the visitors continued to press the Oranje on counter-attacks.
A minute before the full time whistle, the Flying Dutchmen doubled their advantage through Narsingh. http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Tolga-Zengin-c35210,
to seal a much-needed 2-0 win.
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