Netherlands 5-1 Sweden player ratings: Cody Gakpo and Brian Brobbey put Oranje one step from knockouts at World Cup 2026

Virgil van Dijk's Netherlands took 1 measurement person to qualifying for the circular of 16 astatine World Cup 2026 connected Saturday, erstwhile they thrashed Sweden 5-1 astatine Houston Stadium.

Brian Brobbey acceptable the code with an aboriginal brace, earlier Cody Gakpo notched a treble of his own and Crysencio Summerville added a precocious sealer to guarantee that Anthony Elanga's extremity for the competitory Blue and Yellow was a specified consolation.

Here, Sports Mole provides subordinate ratings from the Netherlands' World Cup victory implicit Group F rivals Sweden.

Netherlands subordinate ratings vs. Sweden:

GOALKEEPER

Bart Verbruggen  - 6/10

DEFENCE

Denzel Dumfries - 8/10

Denzel Dumfries has agreed to articulation Real Madrid this summer, and the mode successful which helium showed his quality to interaction games connected the biggest signifier volition person Los Blancos fans excited for the coming season.

The 30-year-old right-back assisted Brobbey's 2nd and his perfectly-weighted debased transverse for Gakpo's archetypal handed the Liverpool winger a elemental tap-in.

Jan Paul van Hecke - 6/10

Virgil van Dijk - 6/10

Micky van de Ven - 6/10

MIDFIELD

Ryan Gravenberch - 6/10

Frenkie de Jong - 7/10

Tijjani Reijnders - 6/10

ATTACK

Donyell Malen - 5/10

Brian Brobbey - 9/10

Brobbey was raring to spell from footwear off, and scoring with conscionable 5 minutes connected the timepiece laid the groundwork for the demolition that followed, portion his 2nd gave Oranje immoderate breathing room.

The Sunderland striker whitethorn not person completed his hat-trick this weekend, but helium repeatedly occupied defenders and made abstraction for his teammates, and drafting Victor Lindelof's attraction contributed importantly to Gakpo's archetypal goal.

Cody Gakpo - 9/10

Gakpo endured a hard run with Liverpool, but helium delivered 1 of the strongest performances astatine the World Cup truthful acold connected Saturday, assisting Brobbey's opener and going connected to people 2 successful 7 second-half minutes soon aft the restart.

Nobody took much shots (five) than 27-year-old, who regularly exploited the abstraction near by Sweden's three-man backline and drove astatine the bosom of the Blue and Yellow defence to make chaos.

SUBSTITUTES

Crysencio Summerville - 8/10

Summerville whitethorn person been relegated from the Premier League with West Ham United, but helium arrived from the seat to people and assistance for his state this weekend.

The winger - who replaced Malen astatine fractional clip - was the supplier for Gakpo's 2nd effort 9 minutes aft coming on, and pursuing a play of Sweden pressure, helium relieved the hostility with a deserved extremity of his ain precocious successful the day.

Teun Koopmeiners - 6/10 

Guus Til - 6/10

Memphis Depay - 6/10

Noa Lang - N/A

Sweden subordinate ratings vs. Netherlands:

GOALKEEPER

Kristoffer Nordfeldt - 4/10

DEFENCE

Gustaf Lagerbielke - 5/10

Isak Hien - 5/10

Victor Nilsson Lindelof - 4/10

MIDFIELD

Alexander Bernhardsson - 6/10

Benjamin Nygren - 5/10

Jesper Karlstrom - 5/10

Yasin Ayari - 6/10

Brighton midfielder Ayari was amazingly progressive successful a fig of attacks during the archetypal half, but helium squandered his opportunities portion the crippled was inactive successful the equilibrium and recovered the people with conscionable 1 of his 4 shots.

To beryllium just to the 22-year-old, Sweden were competitory successful the centre of the parkland up against the likes of De Jong, but things could person been antithetic if helium had converted immoderate of his chances.

Gabriel Gudmundsson - 5/10

ATTACK

Viktor Gyokeres - 6/10

Gyokeres enjoyed a fewer agleam moments successful the archetypal half, notably delivering a superb transverse connected his anemic ft that Ayari miscontrolled and forcing a bully prevention from Verbruggen from a escaped kick.

However, helium was little threatening successful the 2nd fractional arsenic Netherlands ran up the score.

Alexander Isak - 7/10

The Liverpool prima struggled to marque his people astatine Anfield successful 2025-26 owed to a operation of wounded problems and managerial strife, but the information that his prime was evident adjacent amidst a 5-1 decision bodes good for the future.

Isak created 4 chances connected Saturday - much than immoderate different subordinate - and helium volition beryllium frustrated that his teammates failed to lucifer his show level.

SUBSTITUTES

Anthony Elanga - 7/10

Outside of Isak, Sweden were lacking a spark up apical for ample parts of the game, but Elanga was a changeless thorn successful the Netherlands' broadside aft helium came connected astir the 55-minute mark.

The Newcastle United winger scored his team's lone extremity of the game, and a nutmeg connected Van de Ven near the Tottenham Hotspur antheral thankful that helium did not commencement the clash.

Besfort Zeneli - 6/10

Lucas Bergvall - 6/10

Taha Abdi Ali - 6/10

Elliot Stroud - N/A