Intro:

Robin van Persie and Ibrahim Afellay scored two goals apiece on Saturday to inspire the Netherlands to a 6-0 thrashing of Northern Ireland in their final Euro 2012 warm-up friendly.

Script:

The Netherlands played a friendly in Amsterdam against Northern Ireland on Saturday, getting them warmed up for the Euros.

Robin van Persie was centre-forward rather than Bundesliga's top marksman, Klaas-Jan Huntelaar.

The Arsenal captain immediately repaid his coach's confidence by heading home Wesley Sneijder's deep cross in the 11th minute for his 27th goal in his 65th international.

Sneijder doubled the lead just four minutes later with a free-kick.

Ranked 100th by FIFA, in comparison to fourth for the Netherlands, the Northern Irish were hopelessly outclassed.

So they didn't need Shane Ferguson's blatant handball.

That allowed van Persie to make it 3-0.

Ibrahim Afellay completed the first-half scoring in the 37th minute.

After that roasting, Camp was withdrawn at half-time.

Replacement Roy Carroll fared slightly better, beaten only twice.

Affellay made it 5-nil in the 51st minute.

Substitute Rafael van der Vaart and Arjen Robben both went close before defender Ron Vlaar scored his first international goal, with a powerful header, to make it 6-0 in the 78th minute.