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YEREVAN, JUNE 18, ARMENPRESS: In the last leg of group B Portugal and Netherlands met each other. The match was held in Kharkiv city. Armenpress reports that Dutch players made understand during the first minutes that after two losses they had entered the field to play as proper. After several minutes Portuguese players also began to play actively. At the 11th minute receiving the ball from Arjen Robben Rafael Van der Vaart scored a beautiful goal. The national team of Netherlands began to play more active in order to score the second goal. At the middle of the time Portugal had the advantage but could not score a goal. But Cristiano Ronaldo receiving the ball scored the response goal. At the end of the first half the problems of Dutch defense were obvious. At the second half Dutch players wanted to find their game again and had a success. But the success did not last long. The leader of Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo at the 74th minute doubled the score. The match ended 2:1 and Portugal gained the right to play in play off games. Portugal will play against Czech Republic.