Netherlands play Australia in their second Group B Match eying for a victory to go through to next round.
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Robin Van Persie of Netherlands and Tim Cahill of Australia
Australia and Netherlands have faced each other three times in international friendlies and the Dutch side haven’t managed to win on single occasion. Australia have won once and the game has ended on draw twice. The recent meeting between the sides ended on a goal-less draw in 2009. Tim Cahill has a goal against Netherlands when they played a 1-1- draw about 8 years ago.
Australia lost their opening match of the World Cup 2014 against Chile by 3-1. Alexis Sanchez starred Chile to a win and put Australia in deep trouble as they look to crash out of the Group Stage in this tournament.
Netherlands had a day to cherish in their opening match of this world cup as they beat the holder 5-1. This was also the repeat of The Final in last World Cup and Netherlands took revenge of their loss in final four years ago.
Team News:
Ivan Franjic was substituted early in the second half in Australia’s 3-1 defeat in their opening match in World cup 2014 and will be replaced by Ryan McGowan. Australia got a goal against Chile with a header from Tim Cahill and they will want more such moments if they are to shock the inform Dutch side who put five goals past the defending champions.
Netherlands registered a convincing win against the defending champions and have no an injury concerns ahead of the match. Both their forwards scored a brace each and could be in for yet another field day in front of goal. All three substitutes used against Spain were lively and are pushing for start but Louis Van Gaal might not change the winning formula just yet.
Probable Starting Lineups:
Australia:
Formation: 4 – 2 – 3 – 1
Matthew Ryan (GK); Ryan McGowan, Alex Wilkinson, Matthew Spiranovic, Jason Davidson: Mark Miligan, Mile Jedinak: Matthew Leckie, Mark Bresciano, Tommy Oar: Tim Cahill
Netherlands:
Formation: 3 – 4 – 1 – 2
Jasper Cillessen (GK) : Bruno Martins Indi, Ron Vlaar, Stefan Di Vrij : Daley Blind, Nigel De Jong, Jonathan De Guzman, Daryl Janmaat: Wesley Sneijder: Arjen Robben, Robin Van Persie (C)
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