Netherlands Brilliant Oranje - Euro Cup 2012 Thread

Hup Holland! This is our year.

 

Stekelenburg is admired in Holland, but in other countries his status is not that big. Objectively seen they are true. Vorm and Krul might be better, but Stekelenburg is proper, so just let it rest until after the world cup.

v.Marwijk is testing a lot of defenders with only Eredivisie experience. Although not played many matches, v.Rhijn of Ajax deserves an invitation to the training stage...he had Nani in his pocket, who we'll meet next month.

v.Marwijk's Kuyt fetish just has to stop, I see him bench one of our world class players at the Euro's for this old a-technical fishermans son.

v.Persie and Huntelaar in front. 59 goals together in 2 of the top leagues of Europe!
4-2-3-1 has had it's expiration date anyway.

 

I think if people want more defensive stability, the 3-5-2 should be considered:
Play VdW and Afellay as wingbacks. Alternatively if you want Huntelaar in there and are willing to give up a little bit of defensive security, you could take off VdW, put Robben on the left and put Afellay on the right

 

I just learned from that Huntelaar suffered a concussion in a friendly game this night colliding with the keeper and was rushed to the hospital. He was back within an hour with the team to travel to New York.

3 things.

1. The guy does not seem to care if his head is rammed by a truck
2. Had against England also a nasty collision, broke his nose before that.
3. Don't like this stuff before a Euro. I hope the friendly's stop now and we can focus on the Euro's.

 

Should've been freakin' cancelled. What a waste of time

 

It were the Germans who made all this bullshit up.
Robben who played the World Cup with a torn tigh muscle according to dr Wolfart (or something like that). Yeah right, ever had a strained thigh muscle and couldn't walk properly...let alone sprint jump with a torn one etc.

Yeah but but but we pay his enormous salary...not our problem that you pay insane amounts.

 

you germans think you are everything, and better than every other country. power hungry serious bastards, see you at the euro's

 

Hey mate,do you know all clubs are already Substantial Money by fifa as Injury Compensation when players participate in World Cup??

So Bayern have no reason to bitch about.

And your coach Low has been bitching about this friendly since he was like born,saying it should be scrapped & it is hampering his preparations. He has said it like 10 times.

So you have no moral authority to say about this. I am very happy to see this friendly but its bad timing & with Tymo & De Jong in either team a bad injury can occur anytime.

 

If Bayern beat Chelsea it's a match between vice-worldchampion and champions league winner.

 

I hope Bert doesn't use any of our top players. Just 2nd tier + Afellay.

 

It has begun.

 

This is when I miss Holland the most

 

You know all those flags, I like it. But it annoys me that all those people who disgust football all of the year and don't even know the rules (you know who I mean) , are having the biggest mouth on tactics and are all dressed up like it's carnival. Like Durkheim said: celebrating the social, in times where individuality and irreligion is growing..

 

http://nos.nl/video/373407-spannende-dag-voor-narsingh.html

Judging by this video, Narsingh and Luuk de Jong made relatively good impressions.

 

No Urby, Buttner and Viergever..

So our LB at the EC is either going to be 34 yr old Bouma or 18 yr Willems.

 

To Euro 2012:

No Emanuelson
No Maduro
No Wijnaldum
No Buttner
No Ola John
No Viergever
No Cillesen
No Mulder
No de Vrij

The new selection consists the following names:


Keepers:

• Tim Krul (Newcastle United),
• Maarten Stekelenburg (AS Roma),
• Michel Vorm (Swansea City)

Defense:

• Khalid Boulahrouz (VfB Stuttgart),
• Wilfred Bouma (PSV),
• John Heitinga (Everton),
• Joris Mathijsen (Málaga),
• Ron Vlaar (Feyenoord),
• Gregory van der Wiel (Ajax),
• Jetro Willems (PSV)

Midfield:

• Ibrahim Afellay (Barcelona),
• Vurnon Anita (Ajax),
• Mark van Bommel (AC Milan),
• Nigel de Jong (Manchester City),
• Siem de Jong (Ajax),
• Adam Maher (AZ),
• Stijn Schaars (Sporting Portugal),
• Wesley Sneijder (Internazionale),
• Kevin Strootman (PSV),
• Rafael van der Vaart (Tottenham Hotspur),

Attack:

• Klaas Jan Huntelaar (Schalke 04),
• Luuk de Jong (FC Twente),
• Dirk Kuyt (Liverpool),
• Jeremain Lens (PSV),
• Luciano Narsingh (sc Heerenveen),
• Robin van Persie (Arsenal)
• Arjen Robben (Bayern München).

4 players from this group will still drop out.

 

My reaction when I saw both Viergever and Emanuelson where dropped:

 

So basically we have for left back:

• Schaars
• Bouma
• Willems
• Anita

 

I can understand why Emanuelson is dropped. He has always been a horrible defender and we simply have better attacking midfielders.