“San Marino 2-10 Netherlands”
The Netherlands scored ten in European Championship Qualifying, turning a two-goal San Marino return into an eight-goal defeat.
Two for San Marino; ten for the Netherlands. The scoreline on 10 September was not a narrow qualifying escape but an eight-goal margin, with 12 goals shared between the sides.
San Marino’s two goals could not keep pace with the Netherlands’ total. By the final score, the visitors had found the net five times as often, leaving little room for ambiguity in the result.
For the Netherlands, ten goals made the night’s arithmetic unusually emphatic. For San Marino, the same total tells the other half of the story: two goals scored, and eight more conceded than scored. The European Championship Qualifying fixture ended 2-10.