Portugal defeated Netherlands 1-0 at Nuremberg on Sunday. With this win Portugal has secured a place in the World Cup quarterfinals while Netherlands is out of the race. Maniche scored the only goal of the match in the 23rd minute. He hit it from a distance of 16 metres.

This was a messy match with 16 yellow cards shown in the match. Nine yellow cards were shown to Portugal and seven were shown to Netherlands. Four red cards were also shown in the match.

Two Portugal players midfielder Deco and Costinha and two Netherlands players Khalid Boulahrouz and Giovanni van Bronckhorst were shown red-cards. Netherlands got innumerable chances to score but it could not materialize them into goals.