England comes into this game after a 2-1 loss to the French, which has seriously damaged their chances of making the group stages and left them in a very precarious position in the group of death.
However, the Dutch beat Wales 3-0 to give them a place as the 2017 Euros winners face the 2022 Euros winners, and Sarina Wiegman meets her own country once again.
The lionesses performed underwhelmingly against France, and the Dutch will likely want to capitalise on the weak defence of the English, who kept switching off and giving the French the confidence to charge through on goal.
The Prince of Wales will be at this game and on the BBC, so maybe the curse of ITV (e.g., whenever England play and it's on ITV, they lose) will not occur, and England will win.
England's manager, Sarina Wiegman, is unlikely to change her lineup in the next match. However, it would be to their benefit, as Niamh Charles, Michelle Ageymang, Chloe Kelly, and Grace Clinton were excellent as super-subs against France.
"I don't know yet," Wiegman said when asked if she would change the formation against her former side.
"I make a lot of considerations before I make a starting line-up. Sometimes things go well, sometimes it doesn't - but I don't have regrets. We try to turn every stone before we make the line-up.
Beth Mead will face her partner Vivianne Miedema in this game. The Dutch player scored her 100th goal for her country against Wales in their first game.
The 30-year-old added: “We keep in contact, but when it gets closer to our games, we don't talk football.
"We want each other to do well, but not against each other!”
Lauren Hemp and Georgia Stanway looked similarly short of sharpness after their own returns from lengthy injury layoffs.
Netherlands boss Andries Jonker will be encouraged by how Miedema and Victoria Pelova have begun the tournament.
Pelova, who returned to action only in March after an ACL injury, lasted the entire 90 minutes against Wales and got on the scoresheet.
Miedema was an injury doubt going into the tournament due to a hamstring injury that ended her season in March. She played 70 minutes on Saturday and looked back to her clinical best.
This will be their third meeting in the Euros, with both sides having won a game each. Their last encounter was the semifinal in 2017 that Netherlands went on to win 3-0. The Dutch manager for that game? Sarina Wiegman.
England Women and Netherlands Women played 13 Games since 2006. Among them, England Women won 7 games (Total Goals 24, PPG 1.8), Netherlands Women won 3 (Total Goals 14, PPG 1.1), and drew 3.
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