Belgium – Netherlands (4-2), August 15, 2012: the day Dries Mertens silenced the PSV locker room


10 years ago, Belgium – 57th in the FIFA rankings – crushed the Netherlands – the second nation in the world. A first masterpiece in the form of a founding act of the golden generation.

We tend to forget it, but it’s been exactly ten years since our Red Devils became one of the best national teams in the world. The great adventure of the golden generation began in a friendly against the Netherlands on August 15, 2012. In the meantime, everything has changed. Or rather: almost everything. Because strangely, there are also several similarities between the 2012 match and the 2022 match. Reconstruction of this crazy match which ended 4-2.

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