Calvin Stengs' Hat-Trick, Netherlands Qualified For Euro 2024 After Defeating Gibraltar Half A Dozen Goals

Dutch winger Calvin Stengs celebrated a goal against Gibraltar in the final match of Group B Euro 2024 qualification. The Dutch qualified for the finals. (Twitter @onsoranje)

Jakarta - The Netherlands is unstoppable and a wing player with bloody Suriname Calvin Stengs scored a hat -trick. The Netherlands destroyed Gibraltar 6-0 in the match in Group B Euro 2024 qualification at the Algarve Stadium on Wednesday, November 22 WIB. The great victory that brought the Netherlands to the finals while accompanying France.

The Netherlands showed the best performance when overcoming Gibraltar's resistance, the weakest team in Group B. The team that never once won points during the qualifying round.

This is what makes the Dutch more favored than Greece to qualify for the finals. The reason, the Netherlands only needs a draw in the final match that determines their steps.

Meanwhile, Greece must beat France in the last fight. Despite winning, they still depend on the results of the Dutch match.

The Netherlands who only needed a draw even made sure to hang a ticket to Germany after beating Gibraltar. Victory over his opponent made the Dutch have 18 points.

The Dutch points could not be pursued by Greece who was ranked third after a 2-2 draw against Greece.

But Greece can still qualify for the finals through the playoff. On that route, the 2004 European champion will face Kazakhstan to get a ticket to Germany.

While Gibraltar set a bad record by swallowing all defeats during the qualifying round. In fact they were never able to score goals and conceded 40 goals.

In the duel, the Netherlands was completely unstoppable. Stengs became the brand-new star of the Oranje team after scoring a hat-trick.

In that match, coach Ronald Koeman did not lower the best squad even though it took one point to qualify. He still overhauled the squad and lowered the reserve players, including Steins who were more often sitting on the bench.

But this Feyenoord player showed a brilliant performance in the Dutch deciding match. He opened the Dutch victory party when the game had only been running 10 minutes after using Joey Veerman's assist.

Furthermore, midfielder Mats Wieffer enlarged the Netherlands in the 23rd minute. He who had also warmed me a backup of completing the pass from Teun Koopmeiners.

Koopmeiners established the Dutch advantage to 3-0 when the game entered 38 minutes. The score lasted until the end of the first half.

In the second half, the Dutch did not reduce the tempo of the game. This makes Gibraltar difficult and can only survive. But their efforts are in vain.

The match has been running for five minutes, Stengs has returned to break the host goal after completing a pass from Donyell Male.

And, in the 62nd minute, the 24-year-old player scored to complete a hat-trick while changing the score to 5-0.

The Netherlands is still not satisfied. Liverpool forward Cody Gakpo who came in replacing Malen closed the team's winning party.

He broke into Gibraltar's goal in the 81st minute. The score changed to 6-0 for the Netherlands and lasted until the end of the fight.