Alaba, Onisiwo Fall With Austria Against Netherlands At Euro Championship

New signing at Real Madrid of Spain, David Olatokunbo Alaba and Karim Onisiwo from SV Mainz 05 of Germany were both in action but failed to lift Austria to victory over Netherlands at the ongoing European Championship, as their team fell 2-0 against their hosts.

Megasportsarena.com reports that Alaba was on for all 90 minutes of the match at Amsterdam ArenA in front of a crowd of 15,243, while Onisiwo played as a second half substitute, and the Nigerian-born duo got close to scoring at various points of the feisty encounter.

Bother players rated 6/10 on analysts’ cards for the game, which ended as a disappointing night for Alaba and Onisiwo, as a goal in each half from Memphis Depay and Denzel Dumfries saw Netherlands cruise past Austria and book their place in the round of 16 as Group C winners.

The hosts took an early lead from a penalty, given after the intervention of the Video Assistant Referee who spotted that Alaba, who is Austria’s captain, had caught Dumfries in the box, with Depay converting from the spot.

Initially, the match referee, Orel Grinfeld waved play on when rampaging Dutch right wing-back Dumfries went over in the box under Alaba’s lazy challenge, only for VAR Pawel Gil to send the Israeli official over to the pitch-side TV monitor.

However, when the referee watched the incident again, he wasted little time in deciding the Austria captain had caught the top of Dumfries’s foot, with the challenge taking place just inside the box.

It was Dumfries who doubled the Dutch lead midway through the second half with a simple close-range finish after the visitors’ offside trap malfunctioned badly, the PSV Eindhoven right-back’s second goal of the tournament.

Austria played dangerously high line from the kick-off and it was no surprise when the Dutch exploited it as Depay released Donyell Malen over halfway and the substitute then powered forward unchallenged, before laying the ball off for Dumfries to score into the empty net.

As a result, Frank de Boer’s side have joined both Italy and Belgium in the knockout phase having won Group C with a match to spare, while Austria can join them with a win against Ukraine in their final game on Monday.

Netherlands host North Macedonia at the Johan Cruyff Arena, while Austria take on Ukraine in the National Arena in Bucharest, with both concluding Group C clashes taking place on Monday June 21 at 5pm.