VAR rules out Dutch goal as Netherlands draw with Mbappe-less France (2024)

The live coverage of Netherlands vs France has ended.

Thank you for joining us, and we will be back on Saturday.

For now, it’s a goodbye from me, Manasi Pathak, on behalf of Al Jazeera Sport.

The focus now shifts to Group F, as Turkey face Portugal in Dortmund on Saturday.

We will be bringing you the live coverage of that match, which kicks off at 6pm local time (16:00 GMT).

France will face Poland in their final group game on Tuesday in Dortmund, while the Netherlands will play Austria on the same day in Berlin.

Both teams will be looking to book their tickets to the round of 16.

🥇🇫🇷 UEFA Player of the Match for France vs Netherlands: N’Golo Kanté.

Two POTM Awards in two games for Kanté. pic.twitter.com/sX66bxbjr0

— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) June 21, 2024

The result in Leipzig has ended a run of 50 Euro matches without a goalless draw, stretching back to England facing Scotland at the 2020 edition.

🇳🇱🇫🇷 The points are shared in Leipzig 🤝#EURO2024 | #NEDFRA pic.twitter.com/uAqsLXCRbX

— UEFA EURO 2024 (@EURO2024) June 21, 2024

The Netherlands are top of Group D with four points, while France are second. Both sides have a good chance of qualifying for the round of 16.

Austria are third with three points from two games, having beaten Poland 3-1 earlier on Friday.

Poland become the first team to be knocked out of the tournament.

You can find all the group standings here.

The Dutch defence was tested heavily by France’s talented attackers, but at no point did the Netherlands backline look shaky.

Van Dijk led by example, while their keeper Verbruggen was also impressive.

Youngster Simons would be disappointed to have his thunder strike ruled out.

France, playing without their injured star forward Mbappe, struggled in front of the goal.

The 2018 world champions had a whopping 16 attempts at goal but failed to find the net against a robust Dutch defence.

Captain Griezmann missed two big chances.

The most anticipated game of Group D ends in a goalless draw – the first of the tournament.

The Netherlands had a goal by Simons controversially ruled out for offside while France had only themselves to blame for not finishing off their numerous chances.

France will be frustrated with their finishing.

How have they not managed to find the net from their 16 chances?

90+3 mins: Netherlands 0-0 France

Substitute Weghorst pulls off a brilliant tackle to stop Kante from taking a shot at the edge of the box.

He is, once again, living up to his billing as a super sub!

90+2 mins: Netherlands 0-0 France

Will France finally finish off these moves? They have had 15 attempts at goal so far.

90+1 mins: Netherlands 0-0 France

Rabiot instantly recovers from his knock and wins the ball in midfield. He makes his way towards the box and squares the ball across the face of the goal, but Thuram can’t reach there in time to slot it home!

89 mins: Netherlands 0-0 France

Rabiot is down after a rough challenge from Dumfries. The Frenchman is receiving some medical treatment.

Earlier, the Dutch defenders cleared away a ball played by Giroud to Griezmann inside the box.

87 mins: Netherlands 0-0 France

It looks unlikely that we will get to see Mbappe in action in this game, even though France could do with some firepower in their attack.

85 mins: Netherlands 0-0 France

Tchouameni sends a crisp cross into the box for Giroud, who tries a backheel flick towards goal but can’t quite connect.

Not a bad effort from Tchouameni, who is playing this game as a replacement for the injured Mbappe.

82 mins: Netherlands 0-0 France

Taking a free kick 25 metres (27 yards) away from the goal, Depay deftly puts the ball in the air for Van Dijk at the far post. The Dutch skipper jumps for a header, but the ball is cleared.

That was also the last of Depay from this game as he is replaced by Weghorst, who scored the winning goal against Poland.

80 mins: Netherlands 0-0 France

Dembele and Thuram are taken off, as Coman and Giroud come on.

Still no Mbappe for the 2018 world champions.

75 mins: Netherlands 0-0 France

Frimpong, Schouten and Simons are off. Geertruida, Veerman and Wijnaldum are on.

74 mins: Netherlands 0-0 France

After a lengthy VAR check, the referee signals the disallowed goal stays.

Simons, who hammered a shot from the edge of the box, was not offside, but it seemed like Dumfries was blocking the keeper in an offside position when the shot came in.

72 mins: Netherlands 0-0 France

Just when the Netherlands thought they had scored against the run of play through a strike from Simons, the linesman rules it offside!

We will have a VAR check.

70 mins: Netherlands 0-0 France

Dembele cuts inside and hammers a left-footed shot, which just goes over the bar!

France are all over the Dutch defence now.

A goal is brewing!

67 mins: Netherlands 0-0 France

Griezmann misses another sitter!

France pull off a brilliant team move as Kante steers the ball through several bodies to put Griezmann through on goal at far post.

But he fails to beat the keeper from a few yards out, as he snatches at the shot and it’s easily saved by Verbruggen.

66 mins: Netherlands 0-0 France

Tchouameni rises highest and heads a corner-kick towards the goal. The header just flies over the net!

Yet another good effort from the French side.

62 mins: Netherlands 0-0 France

Rabiot finds Thuram at the edge of the box with a clever pass. Thuram shuffles the ball to his right and unleashes a low shot towards the bottom left corner, but it flies just wide.

Decent effort from Thuram!

60 mins: Netherlands 0-0 France