Weekend Action Pt 1.

Vorm played very well for Utrecht again this weekend. He’s impressing me a lot lately.

And Elia is on fire!

By the way, that was quite a horrible stomp by Adebayor on vP. Can’t stand that guy, and hope he gets a lengthy ban.

After watching Inter today and Juventus yesterday I must say Italian football is indeed a lot more boring than the Spanish or English league (actually German league as well, Bayern and Hamburg are flying, lots of nice flowing attacks).

But that’s only 2 games, I’m sure some fireworks are still to come (oh yeah, Milan-Inter was a reaaly good and fun match to watch, allthough Milan was crap of course).

Posted from  Netherlands

Adebayor is a savage ! I can’t belive he did this to his friend and previous team mate . Shame !!
Huntelaar needs to work harder if he wants to be a starter in Ac milan . 3 matches 0 goal , watch out hunter !!
Heitinga played today in the holding midfielder position , but he was bad actually !
anyway , he has many excuses .. did not play in his position , 1st match with his new team , 1st match in the EPL
he must play as a center back .
Sneijer wasn’t good , wasn’t bad .. Waiting for more from him .
Kuyt , elia , persie , robben , de jong were all great , we don’t need to worry about them
And i feel sooo sad for vdv and ruud ! Poor guys .

Ha ha , great article for the anti – real madrid by Paul Tomkins ,
http://tomkins-blogs.typepad.com/paul_tomkins_blog/2009/07/index.html

Results Eredivisie

PSV – Roda JC : 3-0

Heerenveen – Groningen: 0-1

Twente – Utrecht : 3-2

Den Haag – AZ : 2-1

Willem II – Feyenoord : 2-3

Ajax – NAC : 6-0

Sparta – RKC : 1-0

VVV – Heracles : 1-0

Vitesse = NEC : 2-2

Stands:
1. PSV: 14
2. Feyenoord: 14
3. Twente: 14
4. Ajax: 13
5. AZ: 12
6. Utrecht: 10
7. Den Haag: 10
8. NAC: 10
9. VVV: 8
10. Heracles: 7
11. Sparta: 7
12. NEC: 5
13. Vitesse: 5
14. Groningen: 5
15. Roda Jc: 5
16. Heerenveen: 4
17. Willem II : 3
18. RKC: 0

Posted from  Netherlands

What about that ADO eh? If I bet against them one more time I’ll have to mail my shirt in to unibet.com

Posted from  Canada

Mohamed:

We don´t have to feel sorry for Ruud. He´s been the best goalscorer in 3 different leagues: Eredivisie, Premiership and La Liga. He is 33 years old and has been a very succesful player. When he had his first mayor injury at the beginning he had to be in PSV´s bench and Oranje bench for some time but once he recovered his best form he showed his value in PSV, then MAN U, Madrid and of course in Oranje. It will be very difficult for him to be the same player as before because of his age and the time he has been sidelined from the fields will be an issue too. But I´m sure he has something left in his boots and he will have his minutes and if regains some of his old form he will be very important for Madrid and of course for the Netherlands since Oranje doesn´t have many strikers right now.

And about Heitinga…well, every coach plays him in a different position: right back, center back, holding mid. I think Heitinga should make clear to them that he is a center back and that he can play in other positions but where he feels more comfortable and valuable is in the center of defence. He will not exploid if he is not played where he can shine. He is not like Cocu that could play almost in any position at the same level, he plays much better as center back because in all other positions he kind of sucks actually. And I agree with you Mohamed, I feel sorry for van der Vaart. He can be a good replacement in the bench for Kaká but he isn´t even called up. What a bastards Pellegrini, Florentino and Valdano are!!!.

i thought seria was poor when i watched ac milan play. I think inter has a good team and could do well in champions league, maybe juventus too, roma is crap now. AC milan has no width so no crosses for huntelaar.

we need to find a formation that best suites

van persie
sneijder
robben

then
elia
huntelaar
van bommel
de jong
kuyt
van der vaart

i think the first three are the players that could win us a world cup. the rest can help out a lot. think of it as a A player list and a B player list. the players on lists are in no order.

i wouldn’t make too much of Heitinga being played in midfield for now. He was brought to replace the injured phil neville and everton had no other defensive mid on the bench, so by default they brought on heitinga…but this was clearly not the game plan before the match started and it only happened due to the unforseen need to sub out a defensive minded midfielder. i thought he was poor initially (a little lost) but grew into the game, so considering the circumstances i thought he did ok.

http://goal.com/en/news/12/spain/2009/09/13/1498973/valencia-to-bid-for-feyenoord-midfielder-jonathan-de-guzman

de Guzman scores again in Feyenoord win that goose has alluded to above.
Valencia and Aston Villa eying his transfer this January?

Guys:

Do you think De Guzman and Vlaar are in van Marwijk´s radar?. I have read they are playing great this season.

no

Posted from  United States

Yes they are …

Bert managed them both at Feyenoord and has repeated spoke highly of them both. Been and Van Marwijk worded together successfully and I’m sure Been informs his former boss.

Johan Derksen is highly informed and he recently predicted that it won’t take long for Bert to call up Vlaar. Mind you, the latter hasn’t played for two years and might still be vulnerable or get a set back.

Posted from  Australia

Thank you Jan for the precise information.

@jan too much kidding on van persie…it should have been on brentner.
@sol spot on man…i mean your post on previous post…Attacking quatretof roban,Persie,Znijder,Kuyt…..this formation will never work,offcousre they are the inform players but,i think znijder and roban is slightly selfish but they play with their heart for orange…kuyt is a Zero as central striker.Vanpersie is too thin to challenge the big physical diffenders.so it will never work .
so we can go for like this
——–Hunter———
Roban—Vanpersie—-Elia
——–Znijder———-
——–De jong (the only one destroyer)—
Brapheid–Mathjenson–Heitinga–Vander weil
or
Gio—-Mathjenson–Heitinga—Bulahruz
Presence of Znijder and elia will give us diffencive balence…
against italy,serbia,france,england we use kuyt instead of Elia…

Posted from  India

I nominate Tiju for Holland’s New coach ! Look out Bert van Marwijk)

Posted from  Singapore

@Carlos he he ………All i can do is some barking………is it?

Posted from  India

@Jan: the wall Sneijder faced in the Parma game was a typical Italian wall, moving forward before the free-kick is taken in a way that the referee doesn’t notice or says anything about it. Sneijder should have made his run, than stop his run and point to the wall with his finger complaining to the referee to make sure those defenders stick to the rules. I remember de Boer or Davids talking to Collina (?) about the exact same thing and then scoring from the free-kick because Collina (or the referee) made sure the wall wasn’t cheating (even gave out a yellow), don’t remember exactly which game it was. But you have to play the ref a little in these situations and hope he does his job. The refs never notice if you just take the free-kick and hit the wall, no matter how close the wall is at the moment of the kick unless you say something about it to him.

In 2000 the Italians had a special trick to move the wall forward without the ref noticing, instead of the usual small steps forward-trick other nations always use (which sometimes DOES get noticed by the ref) they used a jumping-trick. They pretended to be jumping straight up (which looks like they just want to stop the ball in the air or distract the freekick taker), but in reality they weren’t jumping only upwards, but also just a few centimeters forward with every jump. They jumped like 10-20 times like that ending up 50 cm or half a meter more forward then where the ref had put the wall. I remember a lot of free-kicks ending in the wall like that because of bad refereeing.

I’m not sure if the trick is still being used, haven’t paid any attention to it lately.

Posted from  Netherlands

But like I said many weeks ago when it was first suggested that Sneijder could move to Inter, Italy is an excellent training ground for Sneijder to find a way to counter all the dirty Italian defensive tricks. He’ll learn and experience a lot there, possibly more than he could ever learn at Madrid.

He’ll also learn to cope with situations where it’s very hard to brake through defenses, like the Parma game, and keep a cool head even if things are hardgoing or not working the way he would like (a slow defensive boring game has a negative effect on most creative players, Sneijder is no exception, he’ll have to play a lot of those types of games this year).

Posted from  Netherlands

I agree if Wenger had signed Huntelaar as his target man and an experienced Defensive Midfielder Arsenal would be the strongest team in the Premier League. You could see in the matches against both Man U and Man City that they have so so so much talent but they are missing key components and one of those is experience.

Posted from  United Kingdom

@jan…..italians with one touch football…….no hope for next 20years they wont play that.Dont expect one touch football from italians.But you can expect a pulling and pushing game….with some anti football tactics…

Posted from  India