Comments on: Harmony in Oranje camp

By: goose

goose — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 12:00:28 +0000

vanBasten is gonna use vanBronckhorst cause Gio needs to watch the space that Sneijder is believed to leave on the left side when he cuts inside..so vanBasten wants a ‘lefty’with defensive qualities on that position

grtz

By: ferenc

ferenc — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 11:38:04 +0000

rdb was not too often central striker but against milan he started in this position. after the changes he went back to the midfield because we already had 2 young central strikers on the pitch: kanu and kluivert. rijkaard came forward too,and actually in the last 30 minutes we played a 352. and it worked really well.

By: Jan

Jan — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 10:03:11 +0000

THanks Ferenc. Did Petterson leave before the CL victory? Hmm…forgot that. I was a fan. So Ronald de Boer was de central striker in that year? Rijkaard and Seedorf had a special relationship. Seedorf was a huge fan of Frankie when Clarence was young, his aim was to play with him. And he made that true.

By: ferenc

ferenc — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 09:25:38 +0000

anyway the coaches of the best european teams are not stupid,and they voted clarence best midfielder of the cl. it means europe’s best midfielder in 06/07. this is what i think too.

ajax 94/95: i read somewhere that clarence was rijkaard’s favourite player. before the wc 06 rijkaard (and ancelotti too) said that clarence should have been in the wc squad…

By: ferenc

ferenc — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 09:20:52 +0000

akax against milan in the cl final:
van der saar – reiziger,blind,rijkaard,fdb – seedorf (kanu),littmanen(kluivert),davids – finidi,rdb,overmars

clarence,patrick and kanu were only 19 at this time. clarence was almost a regular starter. patterson left ajay in 93 i guess. but he wasn’t there in 94/95.

i’m agree with marco that seedorf,robben,vdv,affelay,sneijder can’t play at the same time and he has to choice. so i support de zeeuw,but my choice would be different – gio should play left back,de zeeuw holding midfielder, clarece right,sneijder left. if we play 433

By: Jan

Jan — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 07:20:27 +0000

Hmm… Mario, i feel the best team needs to be formed… We can’t play and Robben and Vaart and Persie and Nistelrooy and Seedorf and Afellay… Marco has to make choices. I’d go for De Zeeuw in center and Seedorf on the right, so I’m not saying that I support Van Basten, but still…

And Seedorf was not a certainty in Van Gaal’s team, you know. When he wanted to leave, Ajaz happily let him go. If memory serves me well, it was:

SAR

Reiziger Blind Rijkaard de Boer

De Boer Litmanen Davids

Finidi Petterson/Kluiv Overmars

Am I right?

By: Mario

Mario — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 01:31:41 +0000

Igor, the best players have to play from the start. That´s the way it is in China, Rome or wherever you are and Seedorf for sure is pure talent.

By: Igor

Igor — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 00:27:18 +0000

I agree with you guys, i really feel that since we need to win and we are playing at home, why not take a chance and use two attacking mids (sneijder and seedorf) instead of two holding mids like gio and de zeeuw. We should be taking the initiative in this game not trying to sit back and play defence. it makes more sense to start seedorf and once we have the lead, sub him off for a better defensive player (de zeeuw). However if it is still 0-0 by half, i would hope that marco would send in seedorf for the second half.

By: Mario

Mario — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 00:26:29 +0000

Clarence played 4-3-3 under van Gaal at Ajax. Is van Basten such a stupid bastard as a coach?. Seedorf is one of the few Dutch internationals today that has won it all at club level. Not even van Nistelrooy or any other Dutch player has as many trophies as Seedorf has. Man, if he loses he will be sacked right after the whistle.

By: ferenc

ferenc — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 22:39:32 +0000

i’m really sad if this is true – why van basten doesn’t want to titularize the europe’s best midfielder? he’s even better than sneijder… gio easily could play as a left back,de zeeuw would be the holding midfielder,clarence and sneider could orchestrate the team…

but no. the holy system is more important than the quality of the players.

i would like to see clarence (in this case entering as a substitute and) scoring the winning goal.