UEFA Nations League 2020/21 | Oranje journey to glory

I don't understand Veltman in central defense

 

Ugh. Disappointing first half tbh. Quite positive I never want to see Ake as a fullback again. The modern-day fullback has to be more of a wingback. Ake is definitely more of a CB. On the other side Hateboer has been decent as best especially in the attacking sense.

Bergwijn has also been quite disappointing. Get Mo and Wijndal in there.

 

I told you guys Hateboer needs to be in the team. He made that Bergwijn goal happen.

1-0 Oranje

 

Yeah... No. Still nice for him and glad with the goal obviously.

 

Mo and Beek in for Gini and Promes or Bergwijn. Please.

Edit: Thank the heavens, at least one change.

 

My word Wijnaldum has been underwhelming to say the least.

 

No suprises there.

 

Being a Barcelona fan I hope the Wijnaldum rumors are unfounded. Not the biggest Wijnaldum fan tbh. He has outliers no doubt, but overall he’s nothing to write home about.

Would rather see an in-form Mo tbh.

 

I disagree.Ake was the man of match for me. The atrack on the left was foiled simply because promes was continously cutting inside when Ake was overlapping and plus there was no arieal presence in the box with Depay who was also dropping back. Im sure pep must have liked what he must have saw of ake.

 

He is out of form since the corona break. He generally does better in bigger matches, and it seems like the crowd makes it happen. Most of the times he has been good against Man City for example.

 

Poland was really bad though

 

Decent game, Poland was content with parking the bus and we finished the only good chance we got it feels like. Italy tied Bosnia as well so all in all it was a good first match day.

 

Agree to disagree. He did good defensively, never contested that. However, like I said, modern-day fullbacks need to do more than just defend well. Against better teams his lack of offensive qualities will be exposed imo. Second half was better than the first half for him to be fair.

Depay was motm for me.

 

I was really hoping to see Ihatarren make his debut and don’t really see why you wouldn’t bring him in late in a match like this. Netherlands were good but little cutting edge. Poland were largely terrible.

 

This. Mo really should have been subbed on for Wijnaldum ever since the start of the second half. Same for Wijndal imo. Could have used their offensive qualities today against a piss poor Poland.

 

They don't belong to the best 10 countries of Europe but are surely better than for example Belarus or Bulgaria. They are a good middle tier country and on their day hard to beat.

 

Indeed. I would have put Aké there in the centre.

 

The amount of fouls Memphis drew alone is almost worthy of MotM. You could tell Poland had no answer for him on the ball in the first 10 minutes. They had to grab him or he was gone.

 

Yup. He was pretty useless with the ball close to the Polish box. Would really preferred him to be played by his strength in the centre of the defense and Wijndal in the LB position.
Dunno how he was called best man on the pitch by wilson00. Guess he agrees with me about him on the CD spot.