ROTTERDAM, Netherlands -- Robin van Persie scored his second goal in as many pre-World Cup friendlies as the Netherlands beat Ghana 1-0 on Saturday. Dion Waiters Jersey . On the day Louis van Gaal announced his final 23-man squad for Brazil, the Netherlands coach looked to have picked his strongest side for the match at Feyenoords De Kuip stadium, with the vastly experienced striking partnership of Van Persie and Arjen Robben fed by playmaker Wesley Sneijder. It was that trio who teamed up to unlock the Ghana defence in just the fifth minute. Sneijder played a one-two with Robben and then cut back the ball past the advancing goalkeeper to Van Persie who only had to tap into the open goal for his 43rd international goal. Robben should have doubled the lead seven minutes later but scuffed a close-range shot over the bar after a cross from left back Daley Blind set him free in front of goal at the end of a flowing attack. The Bayern Munich winger squandered another great chance when goalkeeper Adam Kwarasey blocked his shot when Robben was again on his own in front of goal after a cross from right back Daryl Janmaat. "I should have scored two. Im saving them up," Robben said. Both final passes came from backs functioning almost as wingers in Van Gaals new 5-3-2 formation. The defenders -- seen by many as the teams Achilles heel -- also ensured Jasper Cillessen kept a clean sheet. "In the second half, we created less but we gave away absolutely nothing," Van Gaal said. Ghana, which has a tough draw in Brazil together with Germany, Portugal and the United States in Group G, never looked like breaking down the Dutch back five. Coach James Kwesi Appiahs team stayed in the game thanks to Robbens misses and aggressive tackling and pressure that broke up the fluency of Dutch build-up play. "Ghana pinned us back and that makes it difficult," Van Gaal said. But he expects the attacking fluency to come as the squad continues to train together. "It will get better," Van Gaal said. "Weve only just started." The Netherlands plays Wales on Wednesday in Amsterdam and flies to Rio de Janeiro the following day. It is in Group B with Spain, Chile and Australia. Goran Dragic Jersey . -- Jesse Lussier scored 8:24 into overtime as the Halifax Mooseheads erased a four-goal deficit to beat the host Val-dOr Foreurs 6-5 on Tuesday in Quebec Major Junior Hockey League playoff action. Tim Hardaway Jersey .In a statement released Friday, the Catalan club said the Brazil stars recovery would be monitored to determine when he can begin training again. http://www.authenticbasketballshopheat.com/josh-richardson-heat-jersey/ . Not sure yet. #livetweetingthegreatuntangle — Strombone (@strombone1) April 17, 2014 Stage three, coping: I feel like I could use a cigarette or something.(SportsNetwork.com) - The Toronto Maple Leafs look to pull even on their seven-game road trip Friday night as they visit the Minnesota Wild and Xcel Energy Center. The Maple Leafs snapped a two-game slide with Wednesdays 4-3 shootout win over the Boston Bruins, improving to 2-3-0 on their swing that concludes on Saturday night in Winnipeg. Toronto won for just the second time in seven games on Nazem Kadris winner in the fifth round of the tiebreaker. Phil Kessel had a goal and an assist to reach 500 career points, while James van Riemsdyk and Leo Komarov also scored. After missing the previous two games with the flu, Jonathan Bernier returned to make 25 saves. That was probably as good of a win as we are going to have all year, said Kadri. Though Komarov returned from a concussion to play for the first time since Nov. 29, forward Joffrey Lupul exited Wednesdays win with a lower-body injury and has since been placed on injured reserve. Center Peter Holland is also out for tonight with an upper-body ailment. Toronto figures to use both Bernier and James Reimer over the next two nights and both have solid career numbers against the Wild. Bernier is 3-1-3 versus them with a 1.11 goals against average, .956 save percentage and three shutouts in seven games, while Reimer has won both of his starts in this series with a 0.50 GAA, .985 save percentage and one shutout. The Maple Leafs are 8-3-1 aall-time versus the Wild, though they did have a three-game series winning streak snapped in the most recent encounter, a 2-1 shootout victory by Minnesota at home on Nov. Wayne Ellington Jersey. 13, 2013. The Wild have struggled to a 1-3-3 record over their past seven and are coming off Wednesdays 3-1 setback to the Columbus Blue Jackets. Zach Parise scored in the first period and Darcy Kuemper was perfect until allowing a fluke goal with 46 seconds to go in the middle frame. He lost his goal-stick on a save and attempted to retrieve it after Christian Folin cleared the puck out of the crease, but the disc went right to Columbus Kevin Connauton and he was able to wrist the puck home to tie the game. I dropped my stick on the save before, and the puck got shot into the corner, so I went to pick it up, said Kuemper. It shot right out to the guy for the one-timer, and as I was picking it up, he shot it. Kuemper ended with 23 saves on 25 shots faced. Minnesota will visit Dallas on Saturday and Kuemper was blitzed for three goals on seven shots the only other time he faced the Maple Leafs, lifted after 32 minutes of work. 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