Romania v Netherlands LIVE: Team news as Depay battles Weghorst to lead Dutch line-up at Euro 2024

Watch as Dutch supporters hold a fan march in Munich ahead of the Netherlands’ Euro 2024 last-16 match against Romania on Tuesday 2 July.

The match, taking place at the Allianz Arena later today, is the penultimate round of 16 tie.

Plenty of drama has already unfolded over the last few days with England leaving it late to defeat Slovakia and Portugal needing penalties to get past Slovenia.

Romania midfielder Razvan Marin have had a delightful tournament so far helping his team finish top of Group E despite picking up a knock in the match against Slovakia.

In the build-up to tonight’s clash with the Netherlands he said: “I am more excited than nervous and I wish and really hope that after 90 minutes or extra time we will be in the quarter-finals.

“We are confident, we trained really well this week and have had plenty of time to recover, so we are ready. We prepared really well and I am sure we will be ready to give everything. We assure you that we want to continue and don’t wish to go home. We are ready for this and we need to show that on the pitch.

“I am fully fit after a small problem. I am recovered and ready to give everything. We’ve prepared as well as we could. We are aware that we’re facing a very powerful team with top players, but we also have our qualities and we know what we need to do. I am sure that we can win.”

“I said before this Euros that I’m going to take responsibility for whatever goes wrong, but for what goes well they have to take responsibility.

“I wasn’t trying to tell them that it’s up to them what the result will be tomorrow, but it was my challenge to them. I’m sure they understood and I’m waiting for them to react on the pitch.”

Edward Iordanescu spoke at yesterday’s press conference about reaching the knockout rounds and how each match fro here on in is a historic one for Romania.

He said: “Tomorrow we will play a historic match. We have a chance to make history and equal our best performance at a European Championship. This is our motivation and this is a moment we have wished for and dreamed of for so long.

“I wouldn’t say training has been tougher, but maybe at a more elevated level, professionally speaking. My aim is to push them to be more focused, to give their best.

“I’ve been eager to gauge their mood, their mentality, and I wanted to make sure they are fully aware of the importance of this moment. This has been my priority.”

The Cristiano Ronaldo show rumbled into Frankfurt, and it didn’t disappoint. Well, unless you are a selfie-hunting, “siuuuu” screaming fanboy that is.

Portugal progressing via penalty shootout success over Slovenia to book a quarter-final date with France will be billed as a Ronaldo redemption story, but after a night where he did his utmost to make an entire match about himself, the veteran superstar, in tears mid-match, frankly doesn’t deserve it.

Instead, Diogo Costa must embrace all the acclaim that should be coming his way, after three other-worldly saves in the shootout to send a below-par Portugal through.

The Trent Alexander-Arnold Experiment is dead. Time for another Trent Alexander-Arnold Experiment. Liverpool’s vice-captain seems a misunderstood, underused talent at international level.

His time in midfield spanned 123 minutes against Serbia and Denmark and was of sufficient importance, such a scientific voyage of discovery, that it assumed a status of its own. It was an ‘Experiment’.

That it has been deemed a failure was apparent when Gareth Southgate worked his way through a series of partners for Declan Rice against Slovakia – Kobbie Mainoo for craft, Conor Gallagher for graft, Jude Bellingham for overhead kicks – and no scenario called for Alexander-Arnold.

Taking a glance back at yesterday’s matches now and Cristiano Ronaldo says he hit ‘rock bottom’ after missing a penalty in extra-time which would have won the game for Portugal.

Instead Slovenia forced a penalty shootout where Ronaldo scored as his side triumphed 3-0 thanks to Diogo Costa’s heroics in goal.

“Even the strongest people have their [bad] days. I was at rock bottom when the team needed me the most,” said Ronaldo afterwards.

“Sadness at the start is joy at the end. That’s what football is. Moments, inexplicable moments. I feel sad and happy at the same time.

“But the important thing is to enjoy it. The team did an extraordinary job. We fought right to the end and I think we deserved it because we had more authority.”

Netherlands striker Memphis Depay says that Euro 2024 is only just getting started as his team prepare for their first knockout round clash against Romania.

Like most of the established nations, there have been concerns over the Netherlands’ performances so far, particularly in the 3-2 loss to Austria in their final group game.

Depay said: “We must ensure that we learn from our mistakes. We had discussions and criticised each other and it is normal that there is friction if the results do not go as you want them to go.

“It’s logical that there will be irritations but that’s behind us now. There’s a good spirit among the group and we are looking forward.

“The tournament is only starting now.”

Romania. Austria or Turkey. Switzerland or a wildly unimpressive England. Taken at face value, on history and international reputation, it’s not a route to the final of a major men’s international tournament which would terrify Europe’s finest.

Add Netherlands in as the nation which faces that pathway, that opportunity, and there would usually be a heavy favourite. Usually.

In years gone by – eras gone by, it’s probably more reflective to say – an Oranje team would have looked at those upcoming and potentially upcoming fixtures and merely decided, there and then, they would be getting to the final. And few would have opposed such a thought.

But this Netherlands is not that Netherlands, and the current iteration has a whole host of issues, not the least of which is failing to qualify for two recent tournaments and only having a third-place finish in 2014 as the sole vaguely respectable run from their last six attempts.