Utterly co-pious! Twente 2011-2012 [R]

I for one would greatly appreciate if this thread stopped being about me and started being about football in general and Twente in particular. People on the Dutch board have already made up their minds about me. Additional character assassination attempts serve no other purpose than to feel better about yourselves.

 

So the NOS are showing the Van der Sar/Ajax charity game live and are not showing Twente's first CL game live. How hilarious is that. Here's hoping that Lucky Ajax aren't playing at the same time as Twente in the next CL round. I mean clearly the vast majority of Dutch people would rather see Sjaak Swart play a friendly than Chadli in the CL. You know it makes sense! This isn't slagging off Ajax, this is slagging of a public broadcaster financed by my tax money.

Anyway on tomorrow night's game, Ruiz not fully fit yet, he won't play, and Rosales not back yet. Otherwise everybody's fully fit. So Berghuis likely to start on the right wing, I hope the boy doesn't choke on this stage, and Cornelissen substitutes Rosales on the right back position. Then there's left back, which would normally go to Tien Tien Tien Tiendalli but he's suspended for the CL, so I've no idea who will play there. Adriaanse has tried a couple of options in the pre-season but seems to have no preference for a specific player. I'm guessing it'll be Buysse. The only other question in the line-up is whether Adriaanse starts with one or two strikers, and if he starts with one, who that will be.

To the Dutch, the game is live on eredivisielive. I am going to the game myself.

 

Oh and we're trialling a two metre tall (!!!!!!!!) young south African central defender, Erick Mathoho. A transfer fee has already been agreed upon apparently but I guess they want to see how he settles in here first. No mystery here, club probably hoping that he'll turn out to be a Douglas replacement.

 

This is in the midst of this region's summer holiday period, a lot of people are away, and we're playing in Arnhem and not in Enschede so basically playing our home game away from home. To be honest I think 10,000 tickets sold is a lot all things considering, including the fact that no-one's ever heard of Vaslui.

I know the Ajax game is probably going to attract a bigger audience. That's not the point though. Commercial interests are guiding the tax payer funded public broadcaster. Which is all sorts of wrong from a Dutch tax payer's point of view. What is the bloody point of having a public broadcaster if they're going to be no different from the commercial broadcasters. To be honest I don't see the point of them broadcasting professional football at all. If there's one thing best suited for commercial stations it's football. If these commercial stations then would decide against Twente live games fair enough.

 

It's the first time in the history of CL football that a CL qualifier by a Dutch club is not broadcasted by Dutch television. How many viewers Twente attracts ought to be totally irrelevant to the Dutch public broadcaster. They finance the Hindu broadcaster. Who have fewer members than Twente has season ticket holders. Their legal mission is to serve minorities in Dutch society. Why this mission does not extend to matters football related nobody knows. As almost fifty percent of my wages go to the Dutch government I for one would like to know why my money goes to the Hindu broadcaster and to Ajax friendlies rather than to Twente CL games that are actually relevant to the status and real interests of Dutch club football in general.

 

This is F all to do with Ajax. This is about my tax money financing a broadcaster that makes decisions on the same basis as a commercial broadcaster while paid for by public money. My tax money is ill spent on this. Again I would be fine with this decision if this was a commercial broadcaster. But it is not.

 

Likely line-up for tonight's game:

----------------------Mihaylov---------------

Cornelissen------Wisgerhof-------Douglas-------Buysse

------------Brama------Chadli------W. Janssen-------

Berghuis-------------De Jong--------Bajrami


And an insight into Adriaanse's tactical brain in AD today hehehe. ABC football! Sorry it's in Dutch, maybe someone has time to translate it.



Het ABC van Co Adriaanse

Twente vanavond met pressievoetbal in voorronde CL© anp
De laatste keer dat Co Adriaanse met een Nederlandse club in het voorportaal van de Champions League acteerde, staat nog helder op het netvlies. Het was de zomer van 2001 en een ultra-offensief Ajax liep zich in eigen stadion te pletter op een gluiperig counterend Celtic. De 19-jarige Rafael van der Vaart speelde één van zijn eerste grote wedstrijden. In de Amsterdamse aanvalslinie bestookten liefst vier spitsen vergeefs het Schotse doel. Dat Ajax de return twee weken later wel won, kon de uitschakeling niet meer voorkomen. Met FC Twente krijgt Adriaanse vanavond tegen FC Vaslui een nieuwe kans.

In de oefencampagne leerden de Twente-spelers de afgelopen weken schakelen tussen de A-, B- en C-varianten die ze van Adriaanse moeten hanteren bij het druk zetten op tegenstanders in balbezit.

A
Adriaanse, met geamuseerde blik: 'De A is van aanvallende pressie. Als ik daar het sein voor geef, dan jaagt onze centrumspits helemaal door tot bij de keeper en ook elders op het veld laat iedereen zijn man los en beweegt tien tot dertig meter vooruit richting bal', zegt Adriaanse in het AD.

B
'B staat voor behoudende pressie, dan laten we de tegenpartij eerst even opbouwen en storen die opbouw halverwege hun helft. En C staat voor controlerende pressie. Stel, we komen met tien man te staan in een wedstrijd. Dan kunnen we terugzakken tot op onze eigen helft en dan druk zetten.'

C
'In die C-variant is er trouwens nog wel een kleine ontwikkeling zichtbaar. Die heb ik de afgelopen jaren verder verfijnd tot een C1- een en C2-optie.'

Dat 'ABC-voetbal' leverde tot nu toe bevredigende uitvoeringen op tegen Galatasaray (1-0 zege), AA Gent (3-1) en Fenerbahçe (4-3). 'Je praat dan toch over drie internationale tegenstanders waartegen wij steeds de betere ploeg waren. Vooral tegen Galatasaray zag je de ideeën van de trainer steeds beter terugkomen,' zegt aanvoerder Peter Wisgerhof. 'De leukste variant? De A, voor een speler is pressen altijd het leukste.'

 

I'm fine with subsidising a public broadcaster. I just don't think the public broadcaster should do football.

 

I've no idea how strong the opponent is. I hope they live up to their name (vastlui).

Adriaans compares Berghuis to Messi teeheee

 

Well to be precise he didn't compare him to Messi altogether. He specifically alluded to the way Berghuis dribbles past the right side of his opponent while keeping the ball on his left foot. Which I can confirm is something Berghuis does beautifully (not so sure if this is also a typical Messi move mind).

http://www.ad.nl/ad/nl/1443/FC-Twen...nse-Berghuis-kan-iets-wat-Messi-ook-kan.dhtml

I'm not saying Berghuis will be the next Messi. Boy oozes class though. Too young to predict what kind of career he'll have.