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27th June 2021
07:43pm BST

"The Netherlands were really poor after that sending off. They didn't tactically adapt. But the Czechs did well - down that right-hand side, they kept pummelling them and pummelling them and, in the end, it was a set-piece that broke the dead-lock. They fully deserved it. They had more character and personality"
"Malen does so well and then he just complicates it," Neville continued, as he discussed that crucial 25 seconds.
"To be fair to the goalkeeper, a big moment and he reads it and anticipates what he is going to do. He was fantastic... And this then basically runs into what was the moment of the match. ""De Ligt, I have to say, I was speaking to Nigel [de Jong] about De Ligt in the first half. He looked slow, he looked sluggish. He looked like he was going to expose himself. I know he has had some criticism from the Dutch press. "I never buy into, because I've done it myself, [someone saying] 'I've slipped'. You never slip or you're never unlucky. You only slip, as a defender, when you've got your footing wrong, when you're out of position or when you've mis-read the flight of a ball. Then you panic, you slip or your footing goes wrong. He gets his footing wrong as he has mis-read the flight of the ball. It's a really poor bit of defending. "When your first bit of defending goes wrong, the young defender always goes and tries, and makes the mistake that really costs himself. An experienced, mature, composed defender makes the first mistake and just lets the forward go through and score, because you've still got 11 on the pitch. A young one doesn't."A man down, the Dutch lost control. Tomáš Holeš scored with little over 20 minutes still to play to give the Czechs the lead. Any faint flicker of hope of a Dutch revival was extinguished with 10 minutes to go when Schick doubled the lead.
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