{"id":1259724,"date":"2022-11-29T18:44:27","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T18:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/29\/2022-world-cup-gakpo-on-target-again-as-netherlands-beat-qatar-to-top-group-a\/"},"modified":"2022-11-29T18:44:27","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T18:44:27","slug":"2022-world-cup-gakpo-on-target-again-as-netherlands-beat-qatar-to-top-group-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/29\/2022-world-cup-gakpo-on-target-again-as-netherlands-beat-qatar-to-top-group-a\/","title":{"rendered":"2022 World Cup: Gakpo on target again as Netherlands\u00a0beat Qatar to top Group A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Netherlands-attacker-Cody-Gakpo-696x392.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Netherlands-attacker-Cody-Gakpo\"\/><\/div>\n<p>In-form Cody Gakpo scored again as the Netherlands finished top of Group A, ending Qatar\u2019s miserable involvement at their home World Cup with a third consecutive defeat.<\/p>\n<p>Qatar\u2019s dismal showing means they became the first host nation to exit the tournament with three group-stage losses, finishing bottom with no points.<\/p>\n<p>The Dutch, who failed to qualify four years ago, progress to the last 16 with an unbeaten record and face the team that finishes second in Group B \u2013 those games kick-off at 19:00 GMT.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>African champions Senegal beat Ecuador to clinch second place and face the team that finishes top of Group B in the knockout stage.<\/p>\n<p>PSV Eindhoven winger Gakpo has now scored the opening goal in all three of the Netherlands\u2019 group games, driving forward and rasping a finish into the bottom corner on this occasion.<\/p>\n<p>Qatar looked to hit back immediately but Ismaeel Mohammad\u2019s shot on the stretch from outside the area was straight at Andries Noppert.<\/p>\n<p>But Louis van Gaal\u2019s men scored at the start of the second half to quash any Qatari hopes of a comeback as Frenkie de Jong poked into a open net after Memphis Depay\u2019s shot was saved.<\/p>\n<p>The Dutch could have won by more, as Steven Berghuis had a goal ruled out and also hit the crossbar.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"nrVMZNHEcYU\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Premtobre Kasee on Adom TV (29-11-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nrVMZNHEcYU?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In-form Cody Gakpo scored again as the Netherlands finished top of Group A, ending Qatar\u2019s miserable involvement at their home World Cup with a third consecutive defeat. Qatar\u2019s dismal showing means they became the first host nation to exit the tournament with three group-stage losses, finishing bottom with no points. The Dutch, who failed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1259725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[262,22858,516,29454,2457,1922,121,784],"class_list":["post-1259724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-cup","tag-gakpo","tag-group","tag-netherlandsbeat","tag-qatar","tag-target","tag-top","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1259724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1259724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1259724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1259724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}