Man United news: Joshua Zirkzee receives rare Netherlands opportunity following injury to fellow Premier League striker

Manchester United striker Joshua Zirkzee has received a precocious call-up for the Netherlands up of 3 UEFA Nations League matches.

Oranje are presently nether the enactment of erstwhile Barcelona midfielder Xavi, who took complaint of his archetypal fixture successful planetary shot connected Thursday night, erstwhile helium managed a 1-1 gully against Germany.

It was Jurgen Klopp's broadside who raced into a first-half pb courtesy of Lukas Nmecha, however, the Netherlands secured a stock of the spoils successful the 92nd infinitesimal acknowledgment to an effort from Cody Gakpo.

After a respectable constituent successful Amsterdam past clip out, Oranje are present preparing for a trip to Belgrade connected Sunday afternoon, erstwhile the visitors volition look to instrumentality vantage of a confidence-drained Serbia outfit.

The wide purpose for the Netherlands is to bounce backmost from the summer's World Cup exit astatine the hands of Morocco, with erstwhile caput manager Ronald Koeman leaving his relation astatine the extremity of the North American disappointment.

Man Utd's Zirkee receives precocious Netherlands call-up

There were plentifulness of wounded problems picked up for some Germany and the Netherlands connected Thursday night, with Klopp's broadside losing Jamal Musiala and Kai Havertz to thigh strains successful Amsterdam.

Xavi's men started with in-form Sunderland striker Brian Brobbey astatine the apical extremity of the pitch, with the people antheral afloat of assurance pursuing his caller hat-trick astatine the location of Manchester City successful the Premier League.

However, the 24-year-old was incapable to adhd to his tally of 3 competitory goals for the season, with the striker sustaining a nasty-looking hamstring occupation during the archetypal fractional of the Nations League battle.

The 35th-minute exit of Brobbey meant that Mexx Meerdink earned his first-ever headdress for the Netherlands, who yet managed a constituent from the lucifer acknowledgment to Liverpool antheral Gakpo precocious on.

Xavi revealed post-match that the Sunderland prima would beryllium unavailable for the remainder of the planetary window, with the Barca fable sourcing Man Utd guardant Zirkzee arsenic his replacement.

Zirkzee's large Oranje opportunity

The unfortunate hamstring wounded to Sunderland leader Brobbey has paved an improbable way into the Netherlands squad for Zirkzee, who past played planetary shot nether Koeman successful November 2024.

It is wholly imaginable that the Manchester United striker is drafted consecutive into the starting XI connected Sunday day against Serbia, particularly considering that Memphis Depay was not selected by Xavi this month.

Over the adjacent fortnight, Zirkzee has an astonishing accidental to involvement a assertion for a spot successful the plans of the Netherlands, who are warring to triumph their second-ever large trophy aft lifting the European Championships successful 1988.