Memphis, one goal from the podium of all-time goalscorers in the Netherlands

The irruption of Pierre-Emerick Aubameyangauthor of 9 goals for Barça after arriving in the winter market, and the injury to the biceps femoris that kept him out for a month after the game in Munich in December and another month after falling in the Spanish Super Cup, have subtracted the prominence of Memphis Depay at Barça, but the Dutch striker is still one of the leaders of the Netherlands. In the friendly played this Saturday at the Johan Cruyff Arena against Denmark (4-2), with a leading role also for Christian Eriksenshowed it again, scoring one of the goals of the combined Louis Van Gaal. He did it from the penalty spot, where he is a specialist, beating Kasper Schmeichelto add your goal number 39 with the ‘oranje’.

The one who is still Barça’s top scorer so far this season, with 10 goals, all in LaLiga, proved, once again, to be almost infallible from 11 meters. This course, between Barça and his team, he has transformed 9 of the 11 maximum penalties he has launched, missing one against Gibraltar (6-0) and another, as a Barça player, in Vallecas (1-0), in a mistake that ended precipitating the dismissal of Ronald Koeman.

With this goal, his tenth from a penalty of the 39 he has scored with the Netherlands, the Barça striker, who is now only one away from entering the podium of all-time top scorers for the Dutch team. After leaving behind authentic legends and other referents of the ‘oranje’, such as Johan Cruyff (33), Ruud van Nistelrooy (35) the Dennis Bergkamp (37), Memphis he only has the ex-blaugrana ahead of him Patrick Kluivert (40), Klaas Jan Huntelaar (42) and Robin van Persie (50) in the list of top scorers in the history of the Netherlands national team. There is no doubt that if he maintains the current goalscoring rhythm with his national team-in 2021 he scored 15 goals, becoming the Dutchman to score the most goals in a calendar year with his national team-, Memphiswho turned 28 last February, will sooner or later end up becoming the greatest filmmaker in the history of the ‘oranje’.

Top-10 goalscorers for the Netherlands

1

Van Persie (50 goals)

2

Huntelaar (42 goals)

3

Kluivert (40 goals)

4

Memphis (39 goals)

5

Bergkamp (37 goals)

6

Robben (37 goals)

7

Van Nistelrooy (35 goals)

8

Wilkes (35 goals)

9

Cruyff (33 goals)

10

Lenstra (33 goals)

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