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Netherlands need answers after Euro exit

Three thoughts from the Netherlands 3-2 loss against the Czech Republic in a qualifier for the 2016 European Championship. The defeat means that the Dutch will not play in next summer's competition in France.

1.The Dutch bow out ignominiously

It was an exit perfectly in tune with the skittish, error-strewn nature of the Netherlands' qualifying campaign.

While the team's qualification chances ultimately depended on the result of Turkey's match against Iceland (which Turkey won), Danny Blind's side might have been expected to at least keep its side of an unlikely bargain against a workmanlike but unspectacular Czech Republic team that had already booked its place in France.