{"id":298840,"date":"2025-11-18T09:40:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T09:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/298840\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T09:40:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T09:40:13","slug":"internationals-reds-star-as-netherlands-and-germany-qualify-for-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/298840\/","title":{"rendered":"Internationals: Reds star as Netherlands and Germany qualify for World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Internationals-round-up-171125_39b13b97b405864ac06c7e318af8de0b.webp\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"responsive\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0;border:none;margin:auto;display:block;width:0;height:0;min-width:100%;max-width:100%;min-height:100%;max-height:100%\"\/>Published 12 hours ago <\/p>\n<p>By Joe Urquhart<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1nm5e1u\">Four Liverpool players featured and played vital roles for their nations in World Cup qualifying on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Cody Gakpo and Virgil van Dijk started for the Netherlands in their 4-0 victory over Lithuania in Group G, while Ryan Gravenberch was an unused substitute in the fixture.<\/p>\n<p>Gakpo &#8211; who completed 79 minutes &#8211; scored a penalty and recorded an assist for his country, setting up Xavi Simons, with Van Dijk helping to keep a clean sheet in defence.<\/p>\n<p>The Reds skipper also set a record in the contest, becoming the most-capped captain for his country in history, overtaking previous holder Frank de Boer.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Florian Wirtz produced two assists for Germany in a 6-0 victory over Slovakia in Group A.<\/p>\n<p>The playmaker twice found Leroy Sane, for his nation&#8217;s third and fourth goals on the night, ahead of his withdrawal in minute 77.<\/p>\n<p>Both the Netherlands and Germany thereby secured their places at next summer&#8217;s tournament by finishing top of their qualification groups.<\/p>\n<p>Conor Bradley, meanwhile, captained Northern Ireland ahead of being substituted at half-time during a 1-0 win against Luxembourg.<\/p>\n<p>Published 12 hours ago <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u200c Published 12 hours ago By Joe Urquhart Four Liverpool players featured and played vital roles for their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[1720,1721,1708,1716,1710,1722,1724,1723,1711,1715,1714,1709,1719,1712,1717,403,99,1713,1718],"class_list":["post-298840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-alisson","tag-firmino","tag-homepage","tag-klopp","tag-lfc","tag-lfc-news","tag-lfctv","tag-lfctv-go","tag-liverpool-fc","tag-liverpool-fc-match","tag-liverpool-fc-news","tag-liverpool-football-club","tag-mane","tag-reds","tag-salah","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-the-reds","tag-van-dijk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}