Dutch players at home and abroad worthy to be tracked in connection with the Dutch NT - Part 2

van der Vaart interview:
http://netherlands.worldcupblog.org/world-cup-2010/the-big-rafael-van-der-vaart-blog-interview.html
quite interesting

 

Robben with 2 Goals(1 Penalty) & 2 Assists. Bayern are 7-0 up & in ominous form. The last assist had CLASS written all over it. Pure Genius,he is a beast down the right flank today.

Sneijder was good yesterday & MVB has improved since the break by quite a bit too,things are looking up for Oranje.

Edit - ********ing Braafheid,piece of sh** makes an absolutely needless & nasty challenge on Robben. Hope Robben's leg in 1 piece.

 

Babel I was already shouting out that he is not good enough. Ola is way better. He had half a decent match against the Swiss & people starting chanting for him. But this is a hard match to judge since Hoffenheim were played off the park. Babel played ST & LW/RW this season,so hard to judge his position.

It is good to have 2 different kind of strikers though in RVP & KJH despite me not liking Huntelaar. Apart from Ola Afellay can be a very good Winger for KJH to cross the ball too. I remember the Sweden game & he made decent crosses. Afellay is back in training I guess.Apart from that Drenthe has been doing steady at Everton & I believe he can play the role Elia played at the World Cup.

And Ribery although he is very good player we all know what he did when he wife was pregnant with the hooker or his exploits in the rebellion in a World Cup. The German Media is happy because Ribery does not have an ounce of patriotism & half the time German media asks him "Shouldn't you be playing for Germany" to which he smiles & gives ambigous answers.

They know they cant do the same to Robben.

Apart from this macth I watched parts of the Inter-Chievo match & Sneijder looked great. No bad form issues. Its just that Inter play with 7 defensive players atleast & Seria A is just blain boring,slow & defensive & the attacking players dont have the class to convert Sneijder's passes.

 

I'm not so happy about this one. Kuyt is long overdue. I was hoping he would crash and burn at Liverpool. And no, I not very proud of that. But the fact remains that this is the only excuse Bert has. We need to test our promising wingers like Boerrigter, John and Narsingh.

 

I still dont think he will be 2010 great or that great but he would still be great. I still cant see how people watch Seria A with 7 or 8 defensive players & 0 wingers with a very slow & ageing squad. It is ridiculous. Ultra-Defensive from the coaches. Napoli is the only team which is mildly attacking but they are better of as a counter-attacking team than playing Possession Football.

Everton vs Tottenham match coming up. Hopefully both VDV & Drenthe will be in action.

 

Roma tries to play but really lacks a true striker. Luis Enrique was brought in to simulate the Barca style, but that is what everyone at every level of football wants.

 

Haha. I would like to challenge that. I saw Juventus' match today & i have watched a few Juve matches in the hope of seeling Elia playing. They play a horrible boring brand of football.

Udinese & Roma I guess are not "typhical" Italian playing team. Enrique is trying to impose a different philosophy,having said that they are still not something spectacular to watch. JUST MY OPINION.

 

Huntelaar recovers from his injury to score a penalty goal.

Bruma plays 90 minutes for Hamburg which is great. Schalke win 3-1. Hope Bruma can nail that starting spot.

 

Ilan Boccara
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Who is this kid? he is apparently french, born and raised in Paris and a PSG player. And yet he plays Holland u19? what's going on?

 

according to this article (google translated) his mother is Dutch
http://www.francefootball.fr/#!/news/2012/03/01/091010_boccara-une-emotion-extraordinaire.html

 

van Persie scores and argues with Krul for the whole game and in the tunnel after. You Dutchies just can't get along with each other.

 

The next NT reunion should be fun

 

Yeah, that didn't look fun

 

Quick question, do you guys know the status of Rvp's off the pitch relationship with some of his NT mates like Robben, Van der vaart and Sneijder??? Do they get along???
I think he gets along with the first 2, but i don't know about Sneijder though...

 

From the replay I've seen, it seemed like Krul was the one who confronted Van Persie and other Arsenal players after the second goal. He wanted them to rush back to their own half so Newcastle could restart the game... All night long Newcastle (the whole team, not just Krul) took an eternity every time the game was stopped, now all the sudden after they fell behind, they wanted to hurry up and didn't let Arsenal players to celebrate the goal. Well, kinda hypocrisy, isn't it? Funny that had they not wasted so much time, the game would probably have not gone to the fifth minute of injury time. But, that's football..

 

RvW!

http://dai.ly/ybVLMZ

 

I was expecting a certain someone to bi*ch about RVP, but I didn't expect it would be you, DRB300

don't act as if it's an outrage. If van Persie did this to Edwin van der Sar then we can kick him out of the squad. But Tim is our little punk that still has some things to learn. You don't show this kind if attitude towards your senior. I liked how Robin showed some swag at the end of the game. put that little punk in his place. and who else to do that than our previous little punk.

This kind of started when RVP told Tim to not waste time early on. (Why was he wasting time anyway?) Now we all know that Tim is not the first person to waste Robin's time But Robin never bothered to say anything. But against Krul, a fellow dutch men he did speak up. Now you ask yourself why he did that. I don't think he did that to piss Tim off, but little Tim obviously took it the wrong way. And that's when things got hot, fast.

Robin is Arsenal's best player, the top scorer in the EPL. He is allowed to show some arrogance if he want to. Robin has been behaving rather well those days but let's not forget that Robin used to be a punk, guess Tim didn't know that. I don't know what Tim sad that pissed Robin off so much, but I'm sure it was something that you don't say to your senior.

This kind of reminded me of what van der Vaart was talking about a few weeks ago.. About how the new players show less respect towards towards their seniors. He talked about how he always listened to what his seniors had to say when he was still new to the NT and how things are different those days. and this is Rafael we are talking about! the next Johan Cruijff at that point. and who is Tim Krul?

My point is, you don't try to talk down your senior. When players like van Persie, Sneijder, van der Vaart have something to say you shut f*ck up, listen and learn. They have been running this game for years.


Ow and you wont see van Marwijk's conflict management skills. He will talk to van Persie and little Tim but he will do it in his office not in front of the media. So als men dat verwacht van de beste bondscoach aller tijden.

 

Why??? so a player should never stand up for himself because another "senior" player thinks he's right???
And if you're being honnest, you'll admit that RVP was never one to shut up in front of an older player, so why should anyone else do the same for him???
And as for the question of who Tim Krul is, he's currently the best dutch goal keeper imo.