Oranje prepares…

————-Stekelenburg————–
————The Defense—————
————-van Bommel————–
affelay——–van der vaart——–robben
———van persie—huntelaar

I no its not a 4-2-3-1, but i think its better personally, against the weaker teams, and when sneijder gets fit, we push him into the middle and van der vaart wide. The only problem with this, is that our defense isn’t good enough to handle it with only 1 defensive midfielder, but I’m just saying it would be nice to try against Australia.

Posted from  Canada

@ berg
it’s a 4-1-3-2, spain official system. the thing is the dutch team have bad slow old defenders so the system is not going to work for the dutch, only 4-2-3-1 will.

Posted from  United States

Does anyone know if this game will be telecast in Australia? like fox, setanta or something?

Posted from  Australia

Spain had a great holding midfielder in Marco Senna he was very important in Spain’s system.

Holland has 2 great players that can fill that role: Bommel and De Jong.

————-Stekelenburg———-

—Kromkamp—Heitinga–Mathijsen–Gio–

———-Bommel——Nigel—–

—Vaart——–Persie——Robben—–

————–Huntelaar————

@Mark: I saw it will be telecast on Fox (3 I believe) live Sunday morning at 4.30 am. They might repeat it on Sunday evening, that I don’t know.

Check out http://www.austar.com.au and click the TV Guide button. It takes some time to get it on the screen, but it gives you all the programming.

Now, it’s time for Zuiverloon, Heitinga, Marcellis, and Pieters.
Best defenders for orange…….
Mathijsen and Oijer should retire….

In the middle, Afellay and Amrabat should be called to national team

Posted from  Indonesia

hmmmm I like Dirk’s selection very much, especially Hunter and Persie up front. Good choice man !

Posted from  Australia

Is it a true that Orlando Engelaar is injuried and he won’t play in these two matches? Thx for answer

Posted from  Poland

I like your selection too, Dirk. It’s like a diamond midfield type of formation. Very attacking, which is a good thing in my opinion. It will be good to use against the weaker teams at the very least.

Posted from  Canada

It makes sense that we would want to use a defensive minded team in big games against big teams, but against little teams like Luxembourg, our main problem was goalscoring, so I figure we need to field an offensive lineup.

Posted from  Canada

When is the game going to be played in Canada?

Posted from  Canada

@dirk; haha ‘The defense’..

————-Stekelenburg————-

———Heitinga—-Mathijsen———–

–Ooijer————————vanBronckhorst-

———-vanBommel——-deJong————–

—Affelay———————-Robben——-

——————vanderVaart—————-

—————–vanPersie——————-

Posted from  Netherlands

@mat; yes, Engelaar is injured…thank God!!
dont think well see much of him in Oranje next period, cant imagine 2 managers getting it wrong

Posted from  Netherlands

@Goose: You still keeping OOijer in there? Not sure if I am sold on that. But beggars can’t be choosers as they say here in America, I guess.

And where is Hunter? You keeping that annoying little prat VanPersie as the lone guy upfront? He is no target man for starters, so if you want to play that formation you have listed, you need someone who can challenge for a ball.

Van Persie can’t challenge for anything. Makes Robben look like a hard man. Sad but true.

So either the option here is to play goose’s formation and substitute a little offense for defense, the little offense being our new Number 9, or to play mine, and leave our dying defensive line with little help. Another thing we could do is play 3 defense, and 2 defensive midfielders, if you consider them better than the defense.

—————–stekelenburg—————–
—heitinga——mathijsen———ooijer—
———-van bommel—-de jong————-
affelay———-van der vaart———–robben
——-van persie———-huntelaar———-

Then once we take the lead we switch to a 4-2-2-2 formation, by taking off an attacking midfield.

Posted from  Canada

@finnster; not really as a lone striker; i want a lot of interchange(is that english) between the people in attack..if Ruud still played i would play with a lone striker but Huntelaar is playing crap football lately
i know you dont like Ooijer but what major mistakes has the guy made in Oranje? i know hes slow but hes pretty solid and pretty good in the air,

lets see your line-up mr. finnster!

Posted from  Netherlands

I meant van Bronkhorst instead of ooijer.

Posted from  Canada

@dirk: ‘knowing’ vanMarwijk he will go for a more defensive line-up
vMarwijk is rather solid in his tactics

Posted from  Netherlands

Just read a news report that Robben left training early with a hamstring problem…

Posted from  Canada

@Caleb; that was on the morning training, they had another training in the evening and he was fine
also Affelay and Boula joined trained this evening with the group; everybody is fit

Posted from  Netherlands

i hope bert try 4-4-2 and 3-5-2 in the near future

Posted from  United States

Crap football or not, I think the Hunter will play in at least the first 4 or 5 matches under Bert to earn his “wings”. Lets see if he was worth the 40m E$ some team offered. Everyone seems to be fit (those who are there).
Still hope Bert goes with Dirk’s selection but Aussies are no push over either.

ps Jan – yes I am in Oz for a couple of days….back in Singapore tonight!

Posted from  Australia