if van persie pans out, he will be a huge asset to the orange, although i am seeing him a lil more centralized than a winger and wider than a 2nd forward. robben..............9 .............................vpersie .......................9...................robben ..........vpersie could be awesome edit: oh ya, welcome to the boards jimmy
I'm dissappointed Melchiot and van Hooijdonk got the call but I guess they won't be starting. Unfortunately, both van der Meyde and Castelen do not deserve a call for Oranje at the moment. Van der Meyde hasn't been starting a lot fo games for Inter and hasn't improved a lot to be honest from last year. Heard a guy scored a record breaking 60 yards + goal in the spanish league anyone got any footage
Isn't van Persie left footed? Won't that make it awkward for him to play on the right? He's always seen himself as a "10" type player, so I bet he wants to be centralized. Hasn't Kuijt been playing on the left? Isn't he right footed? (Hurts my above post about van Perise). So wouldn't he be more comfortable on the right anyway?
My revised Line-up van der Sar Mathijsen - - - Ooijer - - - van Bronckhorst Cocu Sneijder - - - Van Bommel - - - Landzaat Kuyt - - - RVN - - - Robben
Why doesn't Castelen deserve a call for Oranje? Considering that Van Basten has committed to the 4-3-3 we need right wingers, and Castelen definitely is one of the top right wingers we've got at the moment. More importantly he's the only decent right winger we've got that gets regular first team football. I also think Melchiot can be very, very useful especially against sides that actually dare to come out and play attacking football against us. Against sides like Andorra we're better off with faster defenders who make more runs forward.
I think it'll be: ---------------Sar------------- Melchiot---Ooijer-----Cocu-----Van Bronckhorst Sneijder------Van Bommel------Davids or Van der Vaart ----Kuijt----------RvN--------Robben
Goal: Edwin van der Sar, Maarten Stekelenburg. Defence: Khalid Boulahrouz, Giovanni van Bronckhorst, Phillip Cocu, Nigel de Jong, Joris Mathijsen, Mario Melchiot. Midfield: Mark van Bommel, Edgar Davids, Denny Landzaat, Wesley Sneijder, Rafael van der Vaart. Attack: Romeo Castelen, Pierre van Hooijdonk, Dirk Kuyt, Roy Makaay, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Arjen Robben i want to see: ..................van der sar melchiot...boularhouz..mathijsen..vanB ......sneijder...van bommel...van galen ......kuijt..........ruud........robben
No he recovered soon enough to be able to play tonight edit: sorry then that 'no' should have been 'yes, but'
Well, I didn't want Castelen included based on his horrible performance for the Dutch NT in the Finland game. I know he's been playing well for his club. Oh well, it seems Kuijt is gonna get the nod on the right tonight and I think it's well deserved. Melchiot is a good player comming forward, but to me he is not a solid defender. De Jong or an in-form Heitinga should get the preference IMO.
Sorry for the double post. If anyone outside of Holland wants to see the game, there's a free live stream of it on oranje.nl.
SoccerNet is saying RVN was subbed out at the 35minute for Makaay. I assume this is injury related, so does anybody know wtf is up?
3-0 Final OK result, not great. Still in 1st place with a game in hand on Romania. Too bad Macedonia gave up 2 late goals to the Czechs to lsoe 2-0. Would have been nice for them to take 2 pts from the CR.
Re: 3-0 Final You mean in 1st place for the first time! It's an OK result, I agree. Would have been nice to get the goal difference up a bit more. Then again, it's difficult to score against a team with 11 men in the penalty box. I thought Melchiot played pretty well, as did Cocu. Robben was brilliant but also a bit selfish. And I don't think Landzaat and Van Galen were up for it. To the Dutch posters: was I the only one who couldn't STAND the commentator on Nickelodeon last night? Did he say a single, positive thing? Good God, what a miserable git.
Re: 3-0 Final He couldn't even get excited about Robben's goal (which was great). Said something like 'oh well, if we're playing badly we've got to rely on moments of individual excellence'. He also kept going on an on about Andorra's disallowed goal while completely ignoring that hand ball which should have got us a penalty. I never thought I'd say this but I prefer SBS6 commentators.
btw for those who missed, you can get the hghlights or watch the whole match here - http://www.oranje.nl/planet/show/id=963749/contentid=523593
Re: 3-0 Final They don't annoy me as much as that Nickelodeon bloke last night! I also hate the negativity of Wim Kieft. I always feel like smacking him in the face when I see him.
Re: 3-0 Final To be honest, there wasn't much to be positive about last night, besides the fact they won. Oranje at the moment are not playing at the highest level, and it was a pretty bad game last night. You are right in that Wim Kieft sucks though.
Re: 3-0 Final That's okay if you think that, I always just laugh about it and get back to watching the game but I can certainly understand he can be very annoying. But to say you prefer sbs commentators, I just hate they like to hear themself talk so much. I don't need to know some guy in Russia just started his car when I'm watching a soccermatch.