Gakpo, with one goal per game, leads the Netherlands to the round of 16 as the first against the harmless Qatar

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Cody Gakpo

has scored a goal in each game of the first phase.

Three, the same as the Ecuadorian

, already out of the World Cup, and

.

Enough to take

to the round of 16, also as first in the group, after the victory (2-0) against

.

has a diamond, a tower of almost two meters that moves along the band with the speed of the wingers, and in the area with the biomechanics of the short ones.

He has a goal and this

-old talent has a future .

We'll see if in the real World Cup, since he's the one starting now, he has time to prove it.

The Netherlands goes ahead at the expense of the best Qatar we have seen in the World Cup.

A

, true, but also without fear, in the Al Bayt stadium, the great 'jaima' under which responsibility melted the hosts at the start of the championship.

The Spanish team Félix Sánchez has lived encapsulated, practically in a concentration regime for months.

Too.

very poor host balance

In their last act, already eliminated, Qatar was accompanied by more public than they had previously, since in the opening a large part abandoned their footballers at half-time, when they were already losing against Ecuador.

:

.

It is the

and it is the worst performance by an organizing country in all of history.

The local sporting level is key in an event of this magnitude, and even more so if it is done far from the great borders of football.

Gakpo overtook Van Gaal's men with enough time so that the nerves did not appear.

The slogan was to thrash, because given that Ecuador had won 2-0, if the Latin Americans beat Senegal, many goals could be needed to be first.

It didn't happen and Gustavo Alfaro's competitive team was left out, losing to the Africans, despite the good feelings they had left, precisely against the Netherlands.

In the goal, Gakpo drew the perpendicular to the area before hitting.

Easy.

Everything seems so for this guy who moves like a gazelle.

He belongs to

, his hometown team, but we'll see what happens after this World Cup as he always introduces new talents.

The Netherlands had arrived before with danger, but

does not finish off with the same cleanliness.

, in the local goal, had been solvent, until Gakpo's shot.

After the break,

fished in the troubled river of the Qatari area, very naif, to leave the final advantage in two goals.

Van Gaal's team is not scary but it is growing, and now comes what the 71-year-old dean of World Cup coaches really likes.

At this stage he express has nothing to lose.

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