Excellent question - turnover in the midfield (Reijnders) screwed up everything and it was a mess going the other direction
Dutch playing lazy and sloppy. I feel like you could see it on their faces from when they were walking out from the dressing rooms.
I'm going out to buy a can of paint, then I'm going to paint my wall, and then I'm going to watch it dry. Thats much more exciting than this shitshow
This referee has made a mess of this match. Van Dijk is the captain and he gets a card coming in to protest a call (which he can) and then gets sent off on a borderline call. And now he’s gone for Duitsland. At least they got a point out of this shit match.
1-1 final. The only payers who were okay were vDijk (before his red), de Vrij and Dumfries. Malen made some nice runs too. Everyone else sucked. Not sure what people see in Zirkzee. He's not particularly fast, his first touch is terrible, and his scoring instinct is average at best. At this point I would rather see Malen as our 1st choice striker, even though thats not his natural position
Unbelievable referee, extremely biased towards Hungary, we were just robbed. On the other hand, Simons on the right doesn’t work at all, Quinten Timber with an extremely average match, Cody was very good marked but I think he also did a mediocre game. We were just not good enough today.
Well Zirkzee did quite well the other game he had against Bosnia granted. Man U is going through a hell and he’s getting cooked too.
the more I think about the referee, the more frustrated. The Hungarians fouled like crazy all match, some quite severe and almost no cards. And then our captain off within minutes because of him protesting (which he can do as the captain) and a close run foul. It does feel a bit ridiculous. As I said earlier, the Hungarians came to foul and not play football. Shame they got that undeserved goal in the first half.
Kudos to Dumfries. Wonderful header. Terrible referee tonight in all honesty. Hungarian hacks from the start. Dutch pace of play obviously far too slow. Q Timber was very poor and far too much sloppy or forced passing. Zirkzee lack of energy and his runs off the ball in the box from crosses needs much improvement. He needs to attack the defender from a cross but is always too far off the ball. Very sloppy touches too. Van De Ven offered nothing going forward and needs to see if he has a right foot. All left all the time. On the goal conceded he just barged a Hungarian from behind instead of playing the cross. Typical example of Dutch losing shape and not recovering off a turnover. Brobbey had a great chance, but he’s still not calm enough. At least he was there were Zirkzee is generally way off the ball. Xavi and Zirkzee both guilty of checking to the ball far too much and not making runs in from behind. Would have liked to see Frimpong tonight. I know it was only a few minutes but De Ligt came on and was pretty aggressive and assertive at least. Virgil’s first card was a joke. Did I say anything about the shite ref?
I thought the one that fouled Malen that could’ve been easily a red card. He also took from us at least 2 corners with Xavi winning both. Anyway they got what they deserved with their dirty game, a late draw and only 2 points in the group.I hope Bosnia win against them lmao.
Boy, what a shit performance. Why dafuk give van Dijk the ball when he absolutely does nothing useful with it. He must have a 1000 passes 100% correct pass performance to the left, to the right or back to the goalie or to Gravenberch. Why dafuk doesnot Koeman intervene after 20 minutes of geriatric slow play without any forward play by van Dijk and Gravenberch. Both in my eyes were performance wise a 4.
I will start with both coaches and I have said this several times when koeman meets up with a good coach who can counter his tatical game, he always finds himself gasping for air. Marco Rossi is not a household name coach but he has really made a name for himself being the coach of hungry team since 2018. When the game started it looked like it was going to be another of those one way traffic game where the NT look in control and with poessesion . But they got pegged when hungry scored on the side playing defensively and that was tatic that hungry deployed. I think their GK deserves a laud of applauses for his performances. I still don’t understand why koeman is persistent with this tatic when dumfries only shines vs average teams. Yes he came up with the goal and was probably the man of the match but these are the typical games where you expect him to give those type of performance especially when hungry defended throughout the game and until the red card. My point here is this. First of all koeman tatic of having him play high and LB Ake/ Van der ven drop to back three will crumble if dumfries is not avaliable or gets injured and then the back up players Frimpong and make shift likes of Geertruida which is often the case are neither on the same page or have the same grip in the team given minutes played and are often one step down. This is the very reason why every time there is injuries, the team is in a disorientation state. The balance offsets. I mean you look at Frimpong situation, if dumfries gets injured, what do you expect him to do. Then koeman comes up with pussy excuses depicting injuries to hide his blemishes. I mean if you think about it and did watch the games, the Hungarian were vulnerable on ariel balls but they played to koeman tatical back and lateral passing game and which they defensively and compactly closed of well. When gakpo took over the set piece duties then it came to light what was the best way to counter the Hungarian defensive tatic and again koeman came out second best in the tatical battle of the coaches. Secondly I think it’s well proven in games when dumfries is stuck at the back defending and especially when the poessession is not in their favour, that’s when you see koeman shouting and yelling because this is when that tatic of his simply crumbles. Then he resorts to the bench but only to complicate things more and if not hope for weghorst to pull something out of the hat . unfortunately he left him out this time.