Oranje starts 2011…

jake here it is mate !!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKGLwUzQPI8

Posted from  Singapore

How much playing time did Strootman get?

OJF

I think they both got around 20 minutes

Strootman was pretty invisible but that is his role.

Luuk looked like a pretty smart player, he made some good decisions.

I dont see world class for either of them but I think Strootman could be like a van Bommel (or a better Janssen)

Luuk doesn’t seem to be a world class poacher, but I think he is a good dribbler, scores some goals and makes good decisions.

Love for someone to tell their thoughts because this is based on today and a couple other games.

thanks carlos

Posted from  Australia

I’m hoping to see the match – if someone can put it up.


But you are right sonneveld, there isn’t much to go on yet – but the potential is there we’ll have to see how it goes as they mature further.

(I would like to see Strootman alongside VdV for at least part of a match – that would be an interesting pair both as attackers and defenders.)

OJF

Very difficult to judge 2 20-year old players who came in for 20 min when the game was already won but I disagree with what was said. Strootman looked really good and lively. Great vision as he dished out some really good passes and excellent technique to keep the ball. Which player except for Wes exploded on his first cap? As for De Jong, I think he is a Kuijt but with more technique so this should be really good for us. He fights all the time, tracks back (already) and is dangerous when in possession of the ball. So all in all, both impressed me.

Lmao @ Carlos. Meanwhile ope to catch the highlites of the game.

Posted from  Kuwait

For the record Iam not from Kuwait as my status shows…

Hi,

Love this blog, just wanted to say I was watching the game last night and Sneijder’s goal was fantastic – this is how Soccernet described his goal in the match review:

“Netherlands were having more of the play and Kuyt put his header wide from the six-yard box before Sneijder converted a simple goal in the 29th minute.

Theo Janssen’s pass from the left wing found the Inter Milan midfielder in the six-yard box and he slotted home into the centre of the goal.”

Do these guys watch the game?!?

Posted from  United Kingdom

hahaha Carlos, classic

@Dean; looks like soccernet were reviewing another gane

Posted from  Netherlands

Unbelievable , I have just seen the goal. My first report was the one of Soccernet and I imagined what the fuss was about on Sneijders goal. Soccernet did him injustice!! Soo biased. If that was Ronaldo the whole world would start saying he is better than Messi

here are all the goals from yesterdays game v Austria:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi4QkqP1DAg

Posted from  Netherlands

“Do these guys watch the game?!?”

It wouldn’t surprise me if they just looked at the stats with one of those small graphic boxes where you can see where the shot is coming from.

That’s what his description sounds like.

P.S. Kuyt had a good game, would have been “very good” if he had gone for the assist after his most noteable solo-dribble.

Posted from  Netherlands

@ Dean :O :O :O LOL Thats blasfemy, that was an absolute brilliant goal, displaying class, finesse and domination.. Thats like almost as blunt and bad lies as FOX news… xD

Posted from  Netherlands

Both Elia & Afaleey are not young any more..this is the right time for them.at the age of 23 ronaldino won a WC and moved to barca…
I ma glad that we got some footballing holding mids in Strootman,& Deguzman..This will erase our bad name from football history.(I mean Dejong-Bommel did in WC).
B/w in 2006 -Portugal-Neds game.roben also got heavy karate kungfu kick but that is ignored now…Portugal are famous in india..

oh, and I’ve never felt so secure at LB. For me, I don’t even care about Pieters’ assist, the guy just doesn’t let anyone get past him. I’m even starting to see our opponents giving up on that side completely and just trying to get through somewhere else.

I wish Arsene Wenger would pay attention (or some other scout at Arsenal). I really think that guy is topclub material, and not for inspecting the bench like Affelay, or backup/reinf. like Emanuelsson. He can definitely compete with the likes of Clichy (Arsenal) or Abidal (Barca). Or a Bayern with Lahm and Pieters on both sides, will almost be invulnerable to teams that depend on their wingers. He is exactly the right guy to stop Messi if we ever face Argentina (allthough it will depend on whether the ref is biased towards Messi, cause it will be physical and Messi will go down or run into a wall quite often).

Posted from  Netherlands

Agree that pieters looked improved alot, and even more reliable than weil offensively and defensively, i feel that now LB is secured with pieters and emmanuelson as backup, but RB is now open if someone just slightly better than weil, i’ll take him over weil, since wc he play regular in ajax however doestnt look get better, he looks stop developing and has reached his peak, what do think?

Posted from  Australia

Some news that I find quite cool (already saw this yesterday after the match, but it has nothing to do with it, so I waited, but can’t wait no more, it’s burning on my fingertips ):

Raphael van der Vaart is now ranked #4 on Castrol rankings website.

Now I can’t say I expected him to get THIS level of recognition, whoh. He’s the highest ranked EPL player now.

Posted from  Netherlands

I think Ronnie Stam could make a good backup for RB. He’s currently being used by Wigan as scapegoat, but his games are good. He gets taken off without proper justification, at least that’s what I saw happen 2 or 3 times now, and checking other stats and results of his club when he was taken off made me conclude this, his club plays worse without him, yet the coach keeps taking him off when things go bad for him. On top of that he’s being used out of position sometimes on the left I think, another sign he’s being used as scapegoat (same with Elia at HSV for a while after he had an argument with their medical staff, he seems to have earned back his LW spot again though, just not the playing time he deserves yet/starting spot i mean, as opposed to coming in when HSV is stuttering or even losing).

Posted from  Netherlands

With scapegoat I mean someone who the coach thinks of first to replace in their preferred team (could be starting line-up, could also be during the game) if there are no special circumstances (like yellow cards, someone playing horrible or with an injury, that sort of stuff).

Posted from  Netherlands

P.S. Stam recently (5 Jan.) scored his first goal for Wigan (#18 in EPL) against Bolton (#8 in EPL) to win Wigan another point (1-1 draw).

You can find it here (2nd goal):

http://soccertvlive.blogspot.com/2011/01/video-bolton-1-1-wigan-highlights-and.html

Posted from  Netherlands

lol @ espn.soccernet with their report.

According to them Affelay scored and Nigel de Jong played, hahaha.

No wonder they got Sneijder’s goal completely wrong as well (”Theo Janssen’s pass from the left wing found the Inter Milan midfielder in the six-yard box” ???).

Definitely not watched the game, and probably only a quick glance at the graph, hell, perhaps it’s even a bot doing these reports! You know, those AI bots you can chat with.

Posted from  Netherlands

soccernet = objective, accurate reporting.

For the game, all I had to go on was live updates from espns mobile app. I was suprised to see de Jong(Nigel) in the starting line-up. But their “play by play” for the first goal is pitiful. I agree with Dean, if that goal was done by Messi or Ronaldo, or even Rooney, they would have been choking trying to find enough superlatives to describe it.

The first part of my comment is inteaded to be sarcasm, by the way…

Anyone else keeps getting amazed by Mathijsen, the man gets older and older, but also better and better :S I dont get it, every year he seems to become more stable… Its like freaking wine, it only gets better with age… lol

Posted from  Netherlands