{"id":751379,"date":"2026-06-21T19:08:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T19:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/751379\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T19:08:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T19:08:17","slug":"cody-gakpo-thriving-in-different-freedom-with-netherlands-after-liverpool-winger-puts-on-masterclass-vs-sweden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/751379\/","title":{"rendered":"Cody Gakpo thriving in &#8216;different freedom&#8217; with Netherlands after Liverpool winger puts on masterclass vs Sweden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:start\">While Gakpo took the headlines, Koeman was quick to highlight the impact of Brobbey. The powerful striker was handed a start and repaid his manager&#8217;s faith with a first-half brace. &#8220;In that first goal was everything you want, we know that Brian is good at that,&#8221; Koeman said. &#8220;It starts with Bart Verbruggen, who puts him away well. And then we have a lot of speed and Brian is again in front of the goal. You can&#8217;t make a more perfect goal, starting from the goalkeeper.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:start\">Gakpo echoed his manager&#8217;s praise, noting how Brobbey&#8217;s physicality transformed the Dutch attack after he\u00a0scored twice within 17 minutes to set up a dominant win. &#8220;We knew his qualities all along, he\u2019s very strong &#8211; very, very strong,&#8221; Gakpo laughed. &#8220;His hold-up play and coming at the right time into the box is amazing. We used his quality very well and I\u2019m very happy for him that he scored two goals.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While Gakpo took the headlines, Koeman was quick to highlight the impact of Brobbey. The powerful striker was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":751380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[360613,43,1613,16255,360614,44,1614,4200,41,39,42,40,21418],"class_list":["post-751379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-c-gakpo","tag-headlines","tag-liverpool","tag-netherlands","tag-netherlands-vs-sweden","tag-news","tag-premier-league","tag-sweden","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751379","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=751379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/751380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}