The German team has regained much of their lost pride and started their European Cup qualifying campaign in 2020 with a thrilling 3-2 victory at home to Dutch and their fans on Sunday in the second round of Group C games.

Germany, who won the draw in the group's first round, drew the first three points in their qualifying campaign, while the Netherlands are stuck at three points.

At the Johan Cruyff Arena in the Dutch capital of Amsterdam, Leroy Sani scored the first goal for Germany in the 15th minute, before Serge Gnabri added the second goal in the 34th minute.

Matthias de Liechte narrowed the gap by scoring the first goal of the Netherlands in the 48th minute, while Memphis Debye added the equalizer in the 63rd minute, lifting his scoring goal in the qualifiers to three goals.

As everyone waited for the 2-2 draw, Niko Scholes stunned everyone by scoring the winning goal of Germany in the 89th minute of the veteran star Marco Rios, just a minute after taking the pitch to give Germany his first win in 2019 .

Nikko Schulz's goal for Germany's last defeat against the Netherlands (Getty Images)


This is Germany's first victory over the Netherlands since June 13, 2012, when the machine-gun team beat Orange 2-1 in the Euro 2012.

In this win, the German team (the world champion four times) retaliated for their humiliating defeat against Dutch mills 3-0 in October last year in the European Championship, and began recovering from the early exit of the first round of the last World Cup in Russia, and falling to the second level In the European League.

In Group B, Belgium won their second consecutive victory by beating Cyprus 2-0 on Sunday in the second round of the group, which also saw the victory of the Russian team at Kazakhstan with a clean four, and the Scottish team to San Marino 2-0.

Belgium's Eden Hazard and Mitchi Patchway scored in the 10th and 18th respectively.

Belgium raised their points to six points at the top of the group standings, while Cyprus stopped at three points in second place with a goal difference against Russia, Kazakhstan and Scotland.

The Belgian team won the first round on the Russian counterpart 3-1, while the Cypriot team won the San Marino five clean.