Comments and predictions for Netherlands vs Malta: Destroy the away team

Latest Netherlands vs Malta team information

The Netherlands have not called up Bart Verbruggen, Jurrien Timber, Matthijs de Ligt, Jerdy Schouten, Joey Veerman, Kenneth Taylor, Brian Brobbey and Joshua Zirkzee for various reasons including injuries and tactical choices.

Stefan de Vrij could partner Virgil van Dijk at centre-back after coming off the bench in the second half last weekend.

Depay will continue to start up front after scoring his 48th goal in his 101st appearance for the team in the win over Finland.

On the away team side, striker Ilyas Chouaref of Sion Club will be absent due to serving his second match suspension.

However, the good news for Malta is that defender duo Gabriel Mentz and Kurt Shaw are ready to return from suspension, and will be present in defense.

James Carragher – son of former Liverpool legend Jamie Carragher – will play as a central defender in a three-man defence, alongside Kurt Shaw and Zach Muscat to counter the Netherlands' fast and unpredictable attack.

Latest expected lineup for Netherlands vs Malta

Netherlands:

Verbruggen; Dumfries, De Vrij, Van Dijk, Ake; Gravenberch, De Jong, Reijnders; Frimpong, Gakpo, Depay

Malta:

Bonello; Shaw, Carragher, Muscat; J.Mbong, Guillaumier, Teuma, Satariano, Camenzuli; Jones, P. Mbong

Latest football commentary on Netherlands vs Malta

The Netherlands are now fully focused on their World Cup qualifying campaign after their UEFA Nations League journey ended with a penalty shootout defeat to Spain in the quarter-finals in March.

Having played in four of the last five World Cups, the Netherlands are aiming to qualify for the 2026 tournament through a group that also includes Poland, Finland, Lithuania and Malta.

While the other teams in the same group began their qualifying campaign in March, coach Ronald Koeman's team only started last Saturday in a trip to Helsinki, where Memphis Depay and Denzel Dumfries scored in the first half to help the home team win 2-0.

Ending a five-match winless streak, the Orange Storm will return home to host Malta – their first meeting since their comfortable 4-0 win in October 1995 in the Euro 1996 qualifiers.

In fact, the Netherlands have won all six of their previous encounters with Malta without conceding a goal, scoring at least four goals in five of those six matches.

Confidence for the home team is also reinforced by impressive home form – 6 wins, 2 draws in the last 8 matches since losing to France in the Euro qualifiers in October 2023.

Meanwhile, Malta entered the qualifying campaign on the back of a relatively positive performance in the 2024–25 UEFA Nations League, where they picked up seven points from four games, finishing second in their group and qualifying for the promotion playoffs in March 2026.

However, ahead of them is the World Cup qualifying journey with more realistic expectations - focusing on playing well against tough opponents, because the opportunity to reach the final round for the first time in history is still very far away.

Malta suffered two defeats in their March international fixtures, losing 0-1 at home to Finland and then going down 0-2 away to Poland.

At least Emilio De Leo's side got their first points when they held Lithuania to a 0-0 draw at Ta'Qali on Saturday – their second clean sheet in three home games – although they remain bottom of Group G with five games remaining.

Malta will face a huge challenge when they visit the Netherlands on Tuesday, especially as they have failed to score in their last four games.

Latest Netherlands vs Malta score prediction

Based on the above football comments, we and the world's leading football sites have given the results of the match.Netherlands vs Maltaas follows:

• Sportsmole:Netherlands 1-3 Malta

• WhoScore:Netherlands 0-3 Malta
• Our newspaper predicts:Netherlands 0-4 Malta

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