Malacia’s nation reach World Cup quarter-finals

While Malacia watched as one of the Netherlands’ unused substitutes, ex-Reds winger Memphis opened the scoring in their 3-1 win over the USA with a clinical 10th-minute strike to round off a wonderful passing move.

Then, after repelling various American attempts to find an equaliser, the Dutch doubled their lead in first-half injury time, when our former defender Daley Blind arrived in the box to bury a low pull-back beyond goalkeeper Matt Turner.