The Barcelona marksman pounced after 24 minutes to open the scoring from Dennis Bergkamp's pin-point pass and grabbed his second 14 minutes later after Edgar Davids split the defence.

Boudewijn Zenden and Marc Overmars, playing on opposite flanks, linked up well to give Dennis Bergkamp a shooting chance from the edge of the penalty area in the third minute.

The Arsenal maestro struck his right-foot drive crisply but it cannoned the safety off a defender.

Holland enjoyed the lion's share of possession in the opening moments but Yugoslavia fired them a warning over complacency with a typical Sinisa Mihajlovic free-kick.

The big defender swerved a vicious left-foot free-kick into the goalmouth after a foul by Paul Bosvelt on Predrag Mijatovic but Edwin van der Saar punched clear at full stretch.

Van der Saar then produced a top-class save to keep his team level in the15th minute. Savo Milosevic turned Frank de Boer in the penalty area and slid a pass to Mijatovic.

The Fiorentina striker took a touch before shooting from 12-yards but thebig keeper dived to his right to save.

Holland responded. Bergkamp wriggled past Nisa Saveljic in the penalty area

but his shot was beaten away by Ivica Kralj. Overmars crossed from the right and Patrick Kluivert headed over.

The Yugoslav keeper denied Bergkamp again, in the 19th minute, diving low to

his left to turn away a left-foot effort.

Davids blazed over after bursting through from midfield but the Dutch found

the breakthrough in the 24th minute.

Bergkamp lifted a pass into the penalty area, where Kluivert controlled it at full stretch before poking the ball past Kralj.

Kralj kept out efforts from Zenden and Arthur Numan and, as the home team pressed for a second, Zenden and Overmars both rifled over.

Van der Saar was again equal to a Mihajlovic free-kick and Yugoslavia's Lazio defender was then in action at the back, where his timely challenge denied Kluivert at the expense of a corner.

The Barcelona striker took his Euro 2000 goal tally to four with his second of the game, seven minutes before half-time.

This time, it was Davids who supplied the perfect pass into the penalty area, where Kluivert drifted off his marker and slid the ball past Kralj with a clinical first-time shot.