De Jong nearly scores for Holland

Holland played out their third consecutive win yesterday, beating a lively but poorly organised Cameroon side 2-1 in Cape Town.

Nigel de Jong played, and he nearly scored his second goal at international level when he got on the end of a free kick from Rafael van der Vaart, but he could not control his volley and it went over the bar.

His Dutch side will play Vladi Weiss' Slovakia in Durban on Monday afternoon.