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There are, at last, stirrings of a proper Dutch team in Germany. After a disappointingly flat group stage, this was a wonderfully on-brand performance by Ronald Koeman’s side, who did not wear orange but looked far more like a real Netherlands team than at any previous point of the summer. ]]>