Poland started strong in the second half and stormed for 15 minutes but Oranje straightened their backs on the hour mark and started to dominate. Frenkie de Jong’s attempt after a Malen through-ball was blocked by goalie Fabianski. Malen shot one over the bar and Hateboer wanted to head a ball back to Memphis but it just failed. Wijnaldum was stopped once when running in behind by Bednarek who also frustrated Memphis later. Wijnaldum with a weak shot, Klaassen’s attempt was blocked but Malen missed a sitter heading a ball off target, unmarked. Poland had one more big opportunity with Placheta firing on goal but other than that, most opportunities were for Oranje.
and in 10 times, that goal was conceded within the first 20 minutes! But, in most cases, Oranje was able to rise up and take the game to the opponent and turn the result around. Since Ronald Koeman, Oranje played 28 matches. It’s not the first time Oranje started weak.
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But does Oranje have the players for this, if the quick full backs (Hateboer and Van Aanholt in this match) push up too far, it comes down to De Vrij, Blind and Klaassen to organise the rest defence: great players, but none of them quick. De Boer wants to play more expansive, more direct and higher up the pitch, like Bayern Munich and Liverpool do. And as a result, Blind, De Ligt and the full backs never really got outplayed, like the Italians, the Bosnians and the Polish did, at times. This immediately demonstrated the changes De Boer has pushed through versus Koeman’s tactics: under Koeman, the team played compact, closer to each other and the box. Not ideal.īelow another example, how Poland can break using the wings, with Dumfries (for Hateboer) and Van Aanholt way in front of the ball, forcing Frenkie to help out his less agile team mates. It happens many times, that Klaassen, Blind and De Vrij are the only three players able to stop the counter.
One of the troubling things is, that this doesn’t happen just once. So, optically, it seems Klaassen and Blind are the men to blame, but it all starts from a bad organisation, Hateboer not strong enough and Frenkie de Jong making the wrong decision. Jozwiak humiliates Klaassen with a sprint match and Blind wants Krul and Klaassen to deal with the ball as he is covering Klich. As a result, Klich sprints away and now Blind has to choose. Frenkie decides to leave his man Klich to go for the man with the ball. Klaassen is still ahead of Jozwiak and Blind is coming across to give De Vrij cover for when he pushes up to Lewandowski.īelow you see mistake #1. That is not a comfortable situation and after that more things went awry.īelow, the situation from above and demonstrating how it could have been dealt with. Van Aanholt is up high, Klaassen is flatfooted and De Vrij, Blind and Frenkie are the only players capable of stopping the counter. Daley Blind was pseudo defending by never closing the run down and the Polish wing back was able to almost walk the ball into the goal: 1-0.
The pace was down and when Hateboer got pushed off the ball and Jozwiak could start a sprint match with Klaassen, it was clear really quickly that we miss speed. Oranje started slow, for unclear reasons. Two new full backs and new wingers, with Memphis as central striker. All four finalists this time around, are new nations.ĭespite not qualifying for the finals, Oranje closed off the calendar year with a positive feel, thanks again to the duo Memphis and Wijnaldum.ĭe Boer wanted fresh legs and he put them in the team, on the wings. But it wasn’t enough for a spot in the finals, like we managed in 2019. We did it before, we conceded first and we came back with a vengeance to turn the game around. But we again ended up in trouble too often. We can thank two dead ball moments, two setpieces, for the victory over Poland.
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