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SPORTS Wednesday 30 november 2022

Netherlands beats host Qatar 2-0 to advance at World Cup

By ANDREW DAMPF and down.
AP Sports Writer At one point during the Group A
AL KHOR, Qatar (AP) — second half, Qatar fans NED ECU
The Netherlands still has a held aloft a large Palestin- 1 - 2 nov 29
long way to go to match ian flag that said “Free Pal- ECU SEN
the “total football” teams estine” on it. 2 - 0 nov 29
of the 1970s, or even the In the 26th minute, Gakpo NED QAT
more offensive “Oranje” took control outside the
squads that reached the area, dribbled forward and
World Cup final in 2010 and unleashed a powerful side- Group B
finished third in 2014. footed shot between two ENG USA
Still, a 2-0 win over Qatar on defenders that entered in- 0 - 1 nov 29
Tuesday ensured the Dutch side the right post. IRN USA
advanced to the round of Gakpo became the fourth 0 - 3 nov 29
16 by finishing first in Group Dutch player to score in WAL ENG
A while the Qataris, who Frankie de Jong, of the Netherlands, scores his side’s second three consecutive World
were already eliminated, goal during the World Cup group A soccer match between the Cup games after Johan
became the first host to Netherlands and Qatar, at the Al Bayt Stadium in Al Khor , Qatar, Neeskens (1974), Dennis Group C
lose all three of its group Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2022. Bergkamp (1994) and Wes-
matches at the World Cup. Associated Press ley Sneijder (2010). He also _ - _ nov 30
“If you play against Qatar The Netherlands is a three- we’re going to keep work- became only the second POL ARG
everybody will think and time runner-up at the World ing and planning.” player to open the scoring _ - _ nov 30
expect that you’ll win 5-0 Cup, and also finished third The Netherlands, which for his team three times in KSA MEX
or more, but this tourna- in 2014, while Qatar was failed to qualify for the 2018 the same group stage after
ment has shown that it’s making its tournament de- World Cup, finished with Alessandro Altobelli for Italy
very difficult,” Netherlands but. Qatar won the 2019 seven points at the top of in 1986. Group D
midfielder Davy Klassen, Asian Cup but the team’s the group. Senegal, which “Cody Gakpo has every- _ - _ nov 30
who earned player of the Spanish coach, Felix San- beat Ecuador 2-1 in the oth- thing it takes to become TUN FRA
match honors, said through chez, said that tournament er group game, advanced a star,” 71-year-old Neth- _ - _ nov 30
a translator. can’t be compared to the in second place with six erlands coach Louis van AUD DEN
“We’re very critical of our- World Cup. points. Ecuador was elimi- Gaal said. “Plus he has a
selves and we need to “We came here trying to nated with four points and wonderful personality.
improve,” Klassen added. compete and we man- Qatar ended up with zero. He’s open minded to ev-
“But we have progressed aged to do that,” Sanchez The attendance at Al Bayt erything.”
and we’re going to move said, adding that he wasn’t Stadium, which also hosted De Jong’s goal came
on.” sure about his future status Qatar’s loss to Ecuador in when he sprinted forward
Cody Gakpo put the Neth- with the team. the tournament opener, uncontested to knock in a
erlands ahead midway “One of the things about was given as 66,784 nearly rebound from close range
through the first half with our national team is that at full capacity. There were following a shot from Mem-
his third goal in as many we have a long-term plan small pockets of orange- phis Depay.
matches and Frenkie de that doesn’t depend on clad Netherlands support- A possible third goal for
Jong doubled the advan- me or anyone else,” San- ers, and Qatar fans behind the Netherlands by Steven handball in the buildup.
tage five minutes into the chez said. “We’re going one of the goals chanted Berghuis was waved off fol- Berghuis then hit the bar in
second half. to rest for a few days and in unison and jumped up lowing a video review for a added time. q

Rodgers says he plans to play Sunday when Packers face Bears

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — in the game that kind of halftime a little bit and re- the third quarter and was get into the bye week, get
Green Bay Packers quarter- rattled the ribcage,” Rod- alized it probably wasn’t just having a hard time healthy and see where we
back Aaron Rodgers says gers said. “I was trying to some sort of muscle injury. breathing.” can get to.”
he expects to play Sunday stretch some things out at And I just got hit again in Packers coach Matt LaF- The Packers (4-8) still have
at Chicago after a rib injury leur had said Monday that a slim chance of reaching
knocked him out of a 40-33 Rodgers was feeling better, the playoffs heading into
loss at Philadelphia. but added the team would their game with the Bears
“I got good news with the know more about the four- (3-9).
scans yesterday, so I plan time MVP’s status in the Rodgers said after the Ea-
on playing this week,” Rod- next couple of days. gles game that he wanted
gers said Tuesday on “The Rodgers said he wouldn’t to keep playing through
Pat McAfee Show” on You- be surprised if the injury lim- these injuries as long as the
Tube and SiriusXM. ited his practice time. Packers still have a chance
Rodgers left in the second “I might miss practice of making the postseason.
half against the Eagles be- Wednesday and not be a Rodgers also offered praise
cause of the rib injury. He full contributor, but that’s Tuesday for Jordan Love,
already has been playing kind of been standard for the 2020 first-round pick
with a broken right thumb, the last, I don’t know, six who took over for him in
an injury he sustained on or seven weeks,” Rodgers the Eagles game and went
the final play of a 27-22 loss Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers reacts during said. “(We’ll) go to one of 6 of 9 for 113 yards with a
to the New York Giants on the second half of an NFL football game against the Philadelphia my favorite places to play touchdown.
Oct. 9. Eagles, Sunday, Nov. 27, 2022, in Philadelphia. down in Chicago and “It was really nice to
“There was an earlier shot Associated Press hopefully get a big win, watch,” Rodgers said.q