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Expected Line up: Ruud starts

August 21st, 2007 | By: Jan | 6 Comments »

Ruud van Nistelrooy will lead the attack against Switzerland later today.

Marco van Basten also experimented with a new line of midfielders on the last training. Gio van Bronckhorst played as the holding midfielder in the Phillip Cocu role, like he currently plays at Feyenoord. Sneijder plays left on midfield, van Persie right on midfield. This means Seedorf will be benched.

Ryan Babel will play on the left flank and Raf van der Vaart on the right. The defense consisted of Melchiot, Heijtinga, Bouma and Emanuelson.

It’s not clear if van der Sar will be able to play. The captain left the training with foot-injury. Feyenoord goalie Henk Timmer has been called up to support Ajax keeper Maarten Stekelenburg

Expected line up: Van der Sar/Stekelenburg; Melchiot, Heitinga, Bouma and Emanuelson; Van Persie, Van Bronckhorst and Sneijder; Van der Vaart, van Nistelrooy and Babel.

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Comments

By Mario | August 21st, 2007 at 11:01 pm

Well, if that is the line up I hope he gets sack before the game. van Persie as right midfielder is a joke and Seedorf on the bench is an insult, this coach is lost!

By Bruce | August 22nd, 2007 at 3:12 am

Yep. That’s not the best lineup. Why on earth would van Persie play midfield in order to play Babel up front?

Bench Babel, put van Persie on the attack with VdV and Ruud and put Clarence on midfield!

VdSar

Melchiot, Heitinga, Bouma, Emmanualsson

Sneijder, Gio, Seedorf

van Persie, Ruud, vanderVaart

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By goose | August 22nd, 2007 at 4:47 am

hear, hear Bruce! thats the line-up we want to see..btw; im pretty sure vdSar wont play! hell play Stekelenburg for sure

i would put boula in central defence

grtz

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By Jan | August 22nd, 2007 at 5:22 am

Well… We’ll see a 4-4-2 really… I think Marco is too proud to admit, but particularly after Foppe’s success and the availability of players who all play in 4-4-2 (I think), we’ll see a formal 4-3-3 at the kick off but in the match we’ll see this:

VD Vaart playung on midfield, Babel and Ruud up front and Robin as the shadow striker in the Bergkamp role coming from midfield. Sneijder on the left and Gio as a holder… I also think Clarence will play 45 minutes in Wesley’s place (transfer fatigue ) and we’ll see Kuyt for Vaart. Probably VoH for Ruud.

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By Bruce | August 22nd, 2007 at 8:18 am

Oohhhh. That could be right. Could be alright too! Only time will tell.

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By Miguel Rosado | August 22nd, 2007 at 12:42 pm

Gio as holding midfielder???, I think Gio is not good enough to play on this spot and compete against players like Kaka, Ballack, Gerrard, Pirlo, etc… perhaps he can perform at Feyenord but this is international level we are talking about. You can’t compare Gio to Cocu.

It looks like van Basten is doing everything in order to bench Seedorf, he must feel humilliated.

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