Memphis Depay broke the record for most assists for the Netherlands – and extended his own goalscoring record – in his side’s comfortable World Cup qualifying win over Finland.<\/p>\n
The 31-year-old forward picked out Aston Villa’s Donyell Malen to fire in the opener from outside the box.<\/p>\n
And Depay then swung in a free-kick which Liverpool captain Virgil van Dijk headed in to make it 2-0.<\/p>\n
That was his 35th assist in an Oranje jersey, taking him two above Wesley Sneijder’s old record.<\/p>\n
The Corinthians forward rounded off an impressive display by slotting in a 38th-minute penalty to kill the game off at the Johan Cruyff Arena.<\/p>\n
That was Depay’s 54th goal for his country, stretching the national record he broke last month.<\/p>\n
Liverpool forward Cody Gakpo lashed in a late fourth following a pass from Tottenham’s Xavi Simons.<\/p>\n
After six games, the Netherlands top Group G by six points from Poland, who play Lithuania later on Sunday, and third-placed Finland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Memphis Depay broke the record for most assists for the Netherlands – and extended his own goalscoring record…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-208643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}