Netherlands national football team: results and stats
4 investigationsLatest Netherlands national team football matches: every report comes with full stats, xG analysis and the Crime Index of the result.
Current squad — Netherlands national team
Goalkeepers
- 1B. Verbruggen
- 13R. Roefs
- 23M. Flekken
Defenders
- 2L. Geertruida
- 4V. van Dijk
- 5N. Aké
- 6J. van Hecke
- 12M. Wieffer
- 25J. Hato
Midfielders
- 3M. de Roon
- 8R. Gravenberch
- 14T. Reijnders
- 15M. van de Ven
- 16G. Til
- 20T. Koopmeiners
- 21F. de Jong
- 22D. Dumfries
- 26Q. Timber
Attackers
- 7J. Kluivert
- 9W. Weghorst
- 10M. Depay
- 11C. Gakpo
- 17N. Lang
- 18D. Malen
- 19B. Brobbey
- 24C. Summerville
Netherlands vs Sweden 5:1 — Braces from Brobbey and Gakpo Sealed the Rout
The Netherlands thrashed Sweden 5-1, backing up their xG edge (2.61 to 1.01).
Netherlands — Morocco 1:1: Five Saves Bought A Point
A 1:1 draw between a team playing football and a team playing against it. Morocco owned 70% of the ball and built chances worth xG 1.40; the Netherlands answered with organised suffering and a goalkeeper who carried the point home.
Tunisia — Netherlands 1:3: Both Finished Well, One Had Chances
Tunisia converted their chances better than the model expected — a 1.61 rate — and it changed nothing. The Netherlands matched that touch at 1.62 while creating three times the danger, and 3:1 followed as naturally as a 45% Crime Index suggests it should.
Netherlands vs Japan 2-2 — A High-Scoring Draw, Four Storylines
The Netherlands and Japan played out a high-scoring 2-2 draw at the group stage with a close xG reading (0.78 to 0.59).
Frequently Asked Questions
How many players are in the Netherlands national team's current squad?
26 players: goalkeepers — 3, defenders — 6, midfielders — 9, attackers — 8.
How often do Netherlands's match results diverge from the xG-expected outcome?
Bravsen has analyzed 4 matches — average Crime Index 44, with 1 scoring 60+ (the threshold for an anomalous gap between the result and the xG model).
Across the 4 matches with calculated xG, the Netherlands generated 5.47 expected goals and scored 11 — double the model's figure, one of the most clinical finishing profiles among any team on this site. A gap that size across just four matches is a rare and telling level of finishing efficiency.
The Sweden rout follows naturally from that finishing
The team's single most anomalous covered match is a 5-1 home win over Sweden, Crime Index 72%. Against a 44% average across all 4 matches, that result stands out — but read against the squad's overall clinical finishing, it looks less like a random spike and more like a natural extension of the trend.
One of the tournament's most prolific finishing profiles in the database
11 goals across 4 matches with calculated xG is a rare figure even among the strongest teams on this site: the national team consistently converts chances into goals more efficiently than their quality alone would suggest, and the Sweden rout is the natural continuation of that pattern, not an exception to it.