Yes, Kelly and Hemp are two of the best wingers in the world--very quick with the ball, very hard to defend. It was actually with those two in mind--along with Spain and the U.S., which will always have talented attackers--that I thought Jonker would be wise to go with a more defensive 4-4-2--but but he stuck with what he used at the World Cup, and it worked--though not without a few close calls/great saves by Van Domeselaar. I read a preview of Aston Villa in the Guardian, and the coach was raving about Van Domselaar and mentioned that she'd gotten 14 offers before signing with the club. Beerensteyn is a nice counter-attacking threat--if only she could put the freakin' ball in the net. She's just not a finisher, and was unlucky yesterday when that nice first-half move and shot by her hit the crossbar. It was great to see Djikstra move the ball straight up to the England goal and nearly score--just the kind of courage you like to see in players, and especially encouraging in someone getting what might have been her first start. And in a big game. The Dutch will miss Van der Gragt's heading, for sure, among other things, but Djikstra's ball skills will be a plus.
Who wouldn’t rave about Van Domselaar? Evrard also had a great Euros, but I think it was obvious who the better keeper was. I always like when Groenen gets an assist to back up her solid overall play, so that Beerensteyn shot off the bar was quite frustrating. I think Carter might have partially deflected that. Dijkstra was just class. There was also that play where she cut in and played Martens into acres of space in midfield. I have no idea why Martens didn’t play in Brugts. I was shouting for that pass; I think Brugts was onside the whole time. Then, that cutback to Martens for a chance at goal around like the 72nd minute was class as well.
I haven't even seen the full game yet. I'm waiting for somebody to upload it to YouTube, which usually happens (did for the Belgium game). I've seen an "extended" 14-minute highlight clip, and surprisingly Brugts is completely absent---no plays involving her in attack. Yes, a lot of talented players on the Dutch squad, but heart of this team is Jackie G. I will be in full mourning mode when she retires, which I hope is not soon. Coaches everywhere should show clips of her play to their defensive mids.
Coaches of both men's and women's teams!!! She is the epitome of a defensive MF and maybe Frank Rijkaard of all the Dutch players is her equal.
Many thanks. I read stories on NOS.NL regularly (after translation) but was unaware of NeySport. Bookmarked!
https://nos.nl/artikel/2492227-onda...yenoord-jagen-op-de-top-moeten-ambitieus-zijn use google translate if interested. NOS Football• Today, 06:23 Despite poor start, Feyenoord wants to chase the top: 'Must be ambitious' Richard Vermeer
Part of the NOS interview: Melis has been around since Feyenoord decided to focus on women's football in 2017. In the meantime, she has seen an awful lot change within the club. "Then there was nothing, now we have a very nice youth academy and we have a first team." According to her, the Feyenoord women are fully integrated into the club, crooked faces are not there (anymore). "We are definitely taken seriously," Melis said. "It's now very normal for boys and girls to walk around the training building." But the best thing for her is to see that the boys and girls of the program nowadays get the same opportunities and possibilities. "When players are picked up by bus from school to come and train, boys and girls now are coming out of the bus. That makes me happy. The girls just are part of it."
Nice team effort by the Dutch. The group got somewhat complacent early in the 2nd half--and paid for it. England, trailing, pressed more aggressively, the Dutch started giving the ball away in bad spots--and England equalized. Back-foot football is never good. As soon as they gave up the goal, The Netherlands got more aggressive itself and was rewarded late with a turnover, sweet pass by Martens, great shot by Jansen and a win. I was bit disappointed by Brugts in this match. I thought she played fairly passively--didn't show much courage in attack and was not influential in the way her wingback colleague, Pelova, was. Four minutes into the match Brugts made what may have been her most aggressive move of the match. She gets the ball on the left, darts inside past one, two defenders, has an opening to take pretty much the same shot she put in the net twice against Vietnam, but didn't take it. You've shown you can score from that spot, kid, give the ball a ride and see what happens. She didn't do it. That kind of summed up her performance for me. I'm not a huge fan of Spitse as a centerback, but she was quite solid in this game, I thought, and moved well. Janssen put in another of her poised, professional performances. Dijkstra most definitely impressed; she could be a good player--much different from Van der Gragt, but anybody would be. She's good with the ball, plays confidently. Kaptein was bright in her minutes--she seems athletic. Nice to see Wilms get some action--that should encourage her. I would expect this team will be even better when Miedema returns to action and the Dutch can have her and Martens up top. Am I the only person who finds the Miedema situation with Arsenal crazy? Eidevall doesn't like the way she plays center forward, and so a season and a half ago he made her a 10. Supposedly, Miedema supported the change--but I've never heard her say that directly, and I simply find it bizarre that one of the game's more clinical and prolific goal-scorers ever would be moved to midfield. I know there was a time when she was frustrated in big games because she seldom touched the ball, as Arsenal had trouble getting the ball out of its own end, but that's not been the case lately. Eidevall brought in Blackstinius to play CF while moving Miedema. She's a nice player, to be sure, but has never scored like Miedema. He's now brought in Russo to play CF--he's been completely smitten by her. Again, a nice player, good player; she had 10 goals in the WSL last year. (Miedema had four straight seasons of 22, 16, 18 and 14 goals.) The situation is further complicated because Frida Maanum played very well in the 10 spot last season. It will be interesting to see how this plays out. For me, Miedema needs to play CF and only CF.
https://nos.nl/artikel/2492492-rijsbergen-met-twee-goals-belangrijk-voor-twente-tegen-feyenoord Feyenoord loses again, but it's against FC Twente: FC Twente 3 - 1 Feyenoord.
https://www.ad.nl/buitenlands-voetb...or-manchester-city-direct-trefzeker~ab777268/ Jill Roord debutes at ManCity with a goal Jill Roord on league debut for Manchester City immediately hit the target Jill Roord scored on her league debut for Manchester City. The international scored the second goal in her club's 2-0 win at West Ham United. Sports Editors 01-10-23, 09:22 PM
01/10 18:43 Champions Ajax have forfeited points in the second league game of the season. At De Toekomst it was 0-0 against Telstar. The visitors were lucky, because no less than three goals from Ajax were disallowed.
Voetbal International has a blog special dedicated to the Orange Lionesses and the women Eredivisie. Maybe of interest for you in here too. https://www.vi.nl/nieuws/topdag-beerensteyn-ajax-verspeelt-punten-na-drie-afgekeurde-goals You will need google translate, though!
Feyenoord - Ajax Klassiker is televised on ESPN NL for those of you with IPTV subscriptions!!!! EDIT; Ajax win it 0-1 with a goal in the 2nd half by Hoekstra off a great cross by Noordam, the RB. Feyenoord are very mediocre but had a great chance to draw even in the last minute of injury time. Unfortunately, the Feynoord forward decided to shoot when there was a player completely open on her left and could have easily slotted it home. the match seemed low energy compared to NT games with lots of soft and misguided passing by both teams. That Spitse is the best player on the Ajax side tells you about the level of the other players. Ajax has some promising players and perhaps Noordam has the most potential to move to a higher level. She is a good defender and goes forward with good pace. van Eijk is a decent keeper taking over for Kop who left during the summer. Ajax still have to qualify for the CL and play Zurich this coming week. They will need to step up their game.
Saw a bit of Wolfsburg's match yesterday, mostly to check out Fenna Kalma, who has signed with the German-league champs and got a start at CF yesterday after, what, a few years of scoring lots of goals in the Eredivisie. I hadn't really seen her play. She scored the only goal of the match on a nice header off a corner kick---and being a fairly big, tall (5'11") player, that seems her strength--heading or scoring from close to goal. She doesn't seem to run all that well--not a player who's going to be a counter-attacking threat, it would appear--and perhaps that's why she hasn't yet made the cut with Jonker's national team. That said, she is someone whom a coach might want to insert in the last 20 minutes of a tight match against an opponent who's sitting back--in the hope that she can use her size/height to advantage and head in a goal off a corner or other free kick.
Lauren Glotzbach (19) has made her debut in the women's Eredivisie. More than any other teammate, she is surrounded by coaches at ADO Den Haag who can give her the right advice. Her father is a coach in amateur football, her mother is Sarina Wiegman.
Nope, atm I have to be very choosy with my time spending on football. https://www.vi.nl/spelers/lauren-glotzbach/profiel Position is midfielder:
Good news for Orange Lionesses: Vivianne Miedema back in squad for Nations League matches Vivianne Miedema returns to the Dutch national team. Coach Andries Jonker has called up the 27-year-old Arsenal striker, who missed the World Cup due to a knee injury and was sidelined for a total of 10 months, for the Nations League games against Scotland.