Conquer The Netherlands, Mbappe's Two Goals Bring France To Euro 2024

French captain Kylian Mbappe celebrated a goal with his colleagues in the Euro 2024 qualifying match against the Netherlands. (FFf.fr)

JAKARTA - France qualified for the Euro 2024 finals. Tickets to Germany were achieved after France beat the Netherlands 2-1 in a Group B qualifying match at the Johan Cruijff Arena, Saturday, October 14 in the morning WIB. In that match, Kylian Mbappe passed the French legend Michel Platini's goal record when he scored a brace.

France set a perfect record when they reached for tickets to the finals. They always won during the fight in the qualifying round. Including when playing away matches against the Netherlands.

Victory over the Netherlands made France pocket 18 points. Six points ahead of Greece, which is ranked second. Greece itself confirmed its position after beating Ireland 2-0.

With two more matches remaining, France's points cannot be pursued by the Netherlands, which is ranked third, which only has nine points.

However, The Flying Dutchmen can still compete with Greece to fight for one more ticket.

In that match, France started well. The match has only been running for seven minutes, Mbappe has broken into the Dutch goal which was guarded by Bart Verbruggen.

The goal started with the collaboration of one or two between Jonathan Clauss and Kingsley Coman. Subsequently, Clauss released a cross which was greeted with Mbappe's volley.

Winning through the Paris Saint-Germain star's quick goal made France even more aggressive in suppressing the host's defense.

Even France showed its dominance for the next 20 minutes. However, Les Bleus failed to add a goal so that the 1-0 score for France lasted until the end of the first half.

In the second half, France, which had confirmed to qualify through one goal, did not lower the tempo of the game. As a result, they again scored a quick goal.

Mbappe scored his second goal after completing Uman Adrien Rabiot in the 53rd minute. Through the brace he made in that match, Mbappe has collected 42 goals as well as passed Platini's goal record with 41 goals.

Meanwhile, Olivier Giroud is still France's all-time top scorer with 54 goals.

The Netherlands actually had a chance to reduce the lag through Donyell Malen who entered to replace former Manchester United striker Wout Weghorst in the 56th minute.

However, after reviewing the incident via VAR, the referee immediately disallowed the goal because Dutch defender Nathan Ake was in an offside position.

The hosts finally scored goal setela Quilindschy Hartman beat goalkeeper Mike Maignan in the 83rd minute. Hartman completed the assist from Steven Bergwijn. The score changed to 2-1 for France and lasted until the end of the match.