PREVIEW: WC Qualifier - Netherlands v Andorra

FOOTBALL - Click Read More to see some key facts concerning Friday’s World  Cup qualifier between Netherlands and Andorra.


> Oranje have won their last 10 World Cup qualifiers and are unbeaten in their last 24 (both are national records), since their defeat at Ireland in September 2001 (1-0).

Only Spain are on a longer winning streak in World Cup qualification matches (11). Spain are also on a longer running unbeaten streak at 46, which is already a world record.

> Klaas-Jan Huntelaar has scored against 22 different countries. Andorra is not one of these 22. If he scores, he equals the Dutch record held by Patrick Kluivert and Dennis Bergkamp, who scored against 23 different nations.

30-year-old Ruben Schaken can become the first striker since Cees van Kooten in 1981 to make his international debut for the Netherlands at age 30+.

> Wesley Sneijder, Jetro Willems and Luciano Narsingh are the only three players that have started in each of Louis van Gaal’s first three matches in his second stint as head coach of the Dutch national team. With Sneijder and Willems out injured, Narsingh is the only one that can start in Van Gaal’s first four matches in charge (current contract, excluding his first stint).