Portugal v Holland - Starting Line-Ups - Feyenoord's Kuyt Starts In Favour Of van Nistelrooy - Nuno Valente Starts for Scolari

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Portugal v Holland - Starting Line-Ups - Feyenoord's Kuyt Starts In Favour Of van Nistelrooy - Nuno Valente Starts for Scolari

Submitted by Pavlos Skoufis on Sun, 25/06/2006 - 18:57.

Manchester United’s Cristiano Ronaldo, Barcelona’s Deco, and PSG’s Pauleta, who were rested for their 1-0 win in their final group game against Mexico all return in place of Cardoso Tiago, Sabrosa Simao and Helder Postiga.

Costinha and Nuno Valente also come in for Petit and Caneira.

Manchester United striker Ruud van Nistelrooy has been left-out in favour of Dirk Kuyt by the Oranje coach Marco Van Basten after Kuyt impressed against Argentina.

PORTUGAL

HOLLAND


1. RICARDO	(C) 1. VAN DER SAR Edwin
5. FERNANDO MEIRA	3. BOULAHROUZ Khalid
6. COSTINHA	4. MATHIJSEN Joris
7. LUIS FIGO (C)	5. VAN BRONCKHORST Giovanni
9. PAULETA	7. KUYT Dirk
13. MIGUEL	8. COCU Phillip
14. NUNO VALENTE	11. ROBBEN Arjen
16. RICARDO CARVALHO	13. OOIJER Andre
17. CRISTIANO RONALDO	17. VAN PERSIE Robin
18. MANICHE	18. VAN BOMMEL Mark
20. DECO	20. SNEIJDER Wesley

Substitutes


12. QUIM	22. TIMMER Henk
22. PAULO SANTOS	23. STEKELENBURG Maarten
2. PAULO FERREIRA	2. JALIENS Kew
3. CANEIRA	6. LANDZAAT Denny
4. RICARDO COSTA	9. VAN NISTELROOIJ Ruud
8. PETIT	10. VAN DER VAART Rafael
10. HUGO VIANA	12. KROMKAMP Jan
11. SIMAO SABROSA	14. HEITINGA John
15. BOA MORTE	15. DE CLER Tim
19. TIAGO	16. MADURO Hedwiges
21. NUNO GOMES	19. VENNEGOOR OF HESSELINK Jan
23. HELDER POSTIGA	21. BABEL Ryan