Netherlands vs Morocco - prediction, team news, lineups | 2026 World Cup

Gillette Stadium volition play big to a fascinating last-32 contention astatine the 2026 World Cup connected Monday, arsenic Netherlands and Morocco fastener horns successful the competition.

Netherlands topped Group F with 7 points to breeze into the circular of 32, portion Morocco finished 2nd successful Group C down Brazil, besides claiming 7 points from 3 games.

Match preview

Netherlands opened their Group F run with a 2-2 gully against Japan, earlier signaling back-to-back wins implicit Sweden and Tunisia to decorativeness connected 7 points, which saw them decorativeness astatine the apical of their conception up of second-placed Japan and third-placed Sweden.

Ronald Koeman's squad person scored 10 times astatine the 2026 World Cup and person emerged arsenic a broadside to ticker erstwhile it comes to a imaginable situation for the trophy.

Netherlands person ne'er won the World Cup, finishing arsenic runners-up successful 1974, 1978 and 2010, portion they were 4th successful 1998 and 3rd successful 2014.

Last clip retired successful 2022, Holland reached the quarter-finals, and a triumph implicit Morocco would spot them unafraid a spot successful the circular of 16 against South Africa and Canada, opening up a way into the last 8 of the tournament.

Netherlands could conscionable a Germany oregon a France successful the last eight, and their performances frankincense acold person suggested that a imaginable situation for the trophy is possible.

Morocco, meanwhile, picked up 7 points from their 3 games successful Group C to decorativeness second, lone down Brazil connected extremity difference.

The Atlas Lions opened their tourney with a 1-1 gully against Brazil earlier beating Scotland 1-0 and Haiti 4-2 to yet breeze into the circular of 32, and the nationalist broadside were identified pre-tournament arsenic a squad susceptible of going acold this summer.

Mohamed Ouahbi's squad would beryllium afloat of assurance heading into the circular of 16 if they managed to dispatch Netherlands, and their show against Brazil earlier successful the tourney demonstrated that they tin vie astatine the highest level.

Morocco person ne'er won the World Cup, but they did scope the semi-finals of the 2022 tournament, which represented their best-ever tally successful the competition.

The Atlas Lions person faced Netherlands connected 3 erstwhile occasions, including a clash successful the radical signifier of the 1994 World Cup, which ended 2-1 to Holland.

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Team News

There had been suggestions that Denzel Dumfries and Brian Brobbey were carrying flimsy knocks, making them imaginable doubts for Netherlands, but the brace person been passed acceptable and volition truthful beryllium disposable for enactment against Morocco.

Micky van de Ven is acceptable to instrumentality to the starting squad astatine left-back, with Nathan Ake dropping out, and that is apt to beryllium the lone alteration from the squad that started against Tunisia.

Brobbey is expected to proceed done the mediate for Koeman's team, with Memphis Depay, Justin Kluivert and Crysencio Summerville acceptable to beryllium kept successful reserve.

As for Morocco, determination volition beryllium changes from the broadside that took to the tract for the archetypal whistle against Haiti, with Noussair Mazraoui, Issa Diop, Ayyoub Bouaddi and Azzedine Ounahi expected to instrumentality to the archetypal XI for the last-32 clash.

Ismael Saibari, who is acceptable to marque the determination to Bayern Munich this summer, has scored 3 times successful 3 appearances astatine the 2026 World Cup and volition again pb the line.

Meanwhile, determination volition beryllium spots successful the XI for Achraf Hakimi and Brahim Diaz.

Netherlands imaginable starting lineup:

Verbruggen; Dumfries, Van Dijk, Van Hecke, Van de Ven; Gravenberch, F de Jong, Reijnders; Malen, Brobbey, Gakpo

Morocco imaginable starting lineup:

Bono; Hakimi, Diop, Riad, Mazraoui; El Aynaoui, Bouaddi; Brahim, Ounahi, El Khannouss; Saibari

We say: Netherlands 1-2 Morocco

This has each of the makings of a very, precise absorbing match, and we person recovered it hard to prime a victor here. Netherlands person been awesome this summer, but we are expecting Morocco to grounds a 2-1 triumph successful bid to advancement to the circular of 16.

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