Depay has a chance to 向こうずね for the Netherlands on big 行う／開催する／段階
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) - The European 選手権 is finally giving Memphis Depay the chance to 向こうずね on the big 行う／開催する／段階.
The Netherlands 今後 has two goals and two 補助装置s 長，率いるing into Sunday's match against the Czech 共和国 in the 一連の会議、交渉／完成する of 16. He has 得点する／非難する／２０d seven goals in eight games in 2021 and, at 27, he's entering his 頂点（に達する） years.
Depay´s 水銀の ability played a large part in the team´s three 勝利，勝つs in the group 行う／開催する／段階 at Euro 2020, with the soon-to-be Barcelona 今後 得点する／非難する／２０ing or creating half of the eight goals.
"He showed how important he is for us. He´s a player with special 質s," Netherlands defender Daley Blind said. "He can do magical things with the ball."
Netherlands assistant coach Ruud 先頭 Nistelrooy, a superb finisher himself, said Depay has blossomed into a leader.
"I see a 焦点（を合わせる） and 有罪の判決, a need to show what he has and the will to be the best," 先頭 Nistelrooy said. "This is something which I find beautiful to see."
Memphis Depay of the Netherlands celebrates his 味方する's 3-0 勝利，勝つ, at the end of the Euro 2020 サッカー 選手権 group F match between North Macedonia and Netherlands, at the Johan Cruyff ArenA in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Monday, June 21 2021. (Kenzo Tribouillard/Pool 経由で AP)
But it wasn't always that way for Depay.
When he joined Manchester 部隊d six years ago, it was まっただ中に much hype. He was given the iconic No. 7 jersey worn by George Best, Eric Cantona, David Beckham and Cristiano Ronaldo.
Best and Cantona were の中で the most skillful players ever to grace 部隊d, Beckham one of the club's finest midfielders. Ronaldo, a dazzling winger with 雷-急速な／放蕩な feet, is now the co-記録，記録的な／記録する 支えるもの／所有者 for most goals 全体にわたる in a men's 国家の team with 109. Ronaldo is also the 主要な scorer at Euro 2020 with five goals and he is the 競争's 全体にわたる leader with 14.
The 負わせる of 期待 at 部隊d 鎮圧するd Depay, who 得点する／非難する／２０d only seven goals in 53 games.
He left in January 2017 to 生き返らせる his career with seven-time French 支持する／優勝者 Lyon, the same year he started 追求するing another passion as a hip-hop artist.
Depay netted 76 goals in 178 games for Lyon, 含むing a みごたえのある turn and 高く弓形に打ち返す from the halfway line.
The Czechs have a major 得点する／非難する／２０ing 脅し of their own in striker Patrik Schick. He has 得点する／非難する／２０d three goals so far at Euro 2020, the same as Netherlands midfielder Georginio Wijnaldum.
Schick 得点する／非難する／２０d one of the tournament's best goals with a みごたえのある 宙返り飛行ing 発射 from just inside the halfway line in a 2-0 勝利，勝つ over Scotland.
"It was probably the most beautiful goal of the tournament. It was world class," Netherlands coach Frank de Boer said Saturday through a 翻訳家. "We 尊敬（する）・点 every striker, 特に him."
But he is the only player to have 得点する／非難する／２０d for the Czechs, who 捨てるd through as one of the four best third-place teams.
Czech captain Vladimir Darida, a midfielder with 73 international 外見s, is doubtful after 支えるing an 明示していない 傷害 during practice on Friday.
CAPTAIN'S ARMBAND
Wijnaldum will wear a captain´s armband emblazoned with "OneLove" and a multicolored heart in Sunday´s match.
"Of course, everybody knows the 状況／情勢 in Hungary," he told 放送者 NOS, referring to a new Hungarian 法律 that 禁じるs 株ing with minors any content portraying homosexuality or sex reassignment.
The 法律 has been 公然と非難するd as anti-LGBT 差別.
There was strong support in Munich on Wednesday for the LGBT community before Germany's match against Hungary.
Germany captain Manuel Neuer wore a rainbow armband.
"That 控訴，上告d to us," Wijnaldum said.
De Boer 追加するd: "We are against every form of 差別."
CRUYFF AND PANENKA
The two 味方するs have met before, when then-Czechoslovakia （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 the Netherlands 3-1 after extra time in the 1976 準決勝.
The Dutch had Johan Cruyff 支援する then.
His 署名 move was standing with his 支援する to a defender, then spinning around him while flicking the ball through his 脚s in one swift movement.
It became known as "The Cruyff Turn."
But the Czechs had a player who would become famous in his own 権利.
When the final against West Germany went to 刑罰，罰則 kicks, midfielder Antonin Panenka had the tournament-winning kick at his feet. In 前線 of him was the 課すing Sepp Maier, one of the greatest goalkeepers of his 時代.
Panenka took a long run-up but then softly chipped the ball 負かす／撃墜する the middle of the goal as Maier despairingly dived to the left.
This style of 刑罰，罰則 kick is known as a "Panenka."
フラン 広大な／多数の／重要な Zinedine Zidane 得点する／非難する／２０d with a Panenka against Italy in the 2006 World Cup final, and Depay いつかs takes 刑罰，罰則s that way.
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Associated 圧力（をかける） writer マイク Corder in Amste rdam 与える／捧げるd to this 報告（する）／憶測.
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Memphis Depay of the Netherlands, 支援する to camera, celebrates with Donyell Malen after 得点する／非難する／２０ing his 味方する's 開始 goal during the Euro 2020 サッカー 選手権 group F match between North Macedonia and Netherlands, at the Johan Cruyff ArenA in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Monday, June 21 2021. (Koen 先頭 Weel/Pool 経由で AP)
Wout Weghorst of the Netherlands, left, and Memphis Depay celebrate their 味方する's 3-0 勝利，勝つ, at the end of the Euro 2020 サッカー 選手権 group F match between North Macedonia and Netherlands, at the Johan Cruyff ArenA in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Monday, June 21 2021. (Kenzo Tribouillard/Pool 経由で AP)
Georginio Wijnaldum of the Netherlands celebrates after 得点する／非難する／２０ing his 味方する's 2nd goal during the Euro 2020 サッカー 選手権 group F match between North Macedonia and Netherlands, at the Johan Cruyff ArenA in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Monday, June 21 2021. (Kenzo Tribouillard/Pool 経由で AP)
Georginio Wijnaldum of the Netherlands celebrates after 得点する／非難する／２０ing his 味方する's 2nd goal during the Euro 2020 サッカー 選手権 group F match between North Macedonia and Netherlands, at the Johan Cruyff ArenA in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Monday, June 21 20 21. (Kenzo Tribouillard/Pool 経由で AP)
Czech 共和国's Patrik Schick celebrates after 得点する／非難する／２０ing his second goal during the Euro 2020 サッカー 選手権 group D match between Scotland and Czech 共和国, at Hampden Park stadium in Glasgow, Scotland, Monday, June 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek, Pool)
