It’s been quite the two years for the Netherlands when it comes to women’s football.

This time in 2017 they were riding the wave of excitement leading into a home European Championships with a side packed with potential, but short on real success. The picture now couldn’t look much more different.

Becoming continental champions, FIFA Women’s World Cup runners-up, followed through France by an army of passionate oranje-clad supporters, has seen them catapulted to the status of established football superpower in the women's game.

It’s a growth that Danielle van de Donk described simply as “ridiculous” as she tempered the pain of defeat in the Stade de Lyon for the game’s biggest prize with the pride of knowing how far they’ve come.