Twente: Oh.My.Goodness

@ Tiju, respectfully your views on Huntelaar and Elia are clearly from smoking way too much weed. Just kidding – but maybe you’re writing them off way too quick. (I liked the comment about him taking care of his hairstyle – thats clearly true)

Elia hated Hamburg and wanted out and therefore has been playing like a crap crocette. Huntelaar has gone to teams that don’t rely on a centre striker and don’t need to give him service. If he misses a bunch of chances which he will, they otherwise write him off. Things are a bit different at Schalke today.

It’s science…

@ Wissam, i agree Elia would fit in well at Arsenal

Posted from  Canada

Tiju – If you have followed the Elia carreer at Hamburg you must know all the problems he had with the ex coach Armin Veh, this moron destroyed all the work Elia has done in his first season at Hamburg. The problems aren’t on his skills(They are intact), they are on his head, left Hamburg was the better decision for Elia carreer, when him recover his confidence levels you will see how good Elia is! I put him in my line-up because we haven’t another classic winger on this squad, play van Persie and kuyt on the wings is a bad decision. Btw, Elia always played well in the national team!

Oranjerules – Pieters and Wiel, both of them are former centre backs. Anyway, the game is against San Marin, so I cant see any problem with that defense, and it was a good opportunity to try this formation.

@danni i understood that,thats why said elia should go back to the basics,the guy is mentally collapsed.may be due to bitter experience with hamburg…Elia has played some very good matches for us,i dont forget that.
@danni you cannot call back RVN/Gullit or bergkamp.Coz they played great at one point of time.you must look in to form of the player.

Posted from  United Arab Emirates

About huntlaar my point is he is a great finisher but very static.i am Not happy with his work rate.if we want fo play fluid football we need workrate and ball possessing skills.that is what barca players has,they are having it in abundence.Every barca player are a mix of kuyt and persie.
i think we dont have to worry about our striker postion we are goin to have a prolific hardworking striker is coming up in luc castaginos.
Another one is Luuk dejong,he provides better hardwork and huge physical presence in the box.he can receives the balls in the box,and can easily out muscle the tough defenders.Both persie and hunter cannot do that.
The third option is wolfwinkel,but we should wait for some months.

Posted from  United Arab Emirates

Netherlands U21 are playing against Bulgaria.
I dont watch it,but I am guessing Netherlands are playing pretty bad because its still 0-0 70 minutes into the game.

Heh,this article could get a record number of comments.:)

dutch u21 won 1-0 , goal by Zeefuik. just saw a few spells but it wasnt great to watch lots of (ex) Feyenoord players btw

Posted from  Netherlands

@Goose: What is up with you Dutch, you have the best names. Zeefuik, who wouldn’t want to buy that shirt?

I only realized Van der Vaart was funny in English when van der Vaart farted on the bench: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0IyzMLkMP0 I know it’s old but it still cracks me up. Crack is not a pun! It’s a terrific drug

Posted from  Netherlands

Has hell frozen over?? In a number of Tiju’s comments, he is speaking positively about Kuyt! Pinch me, I’m dreaming!

Am stoked as tonights Holland game is being shown “live” here Although would have preferred a stronger opponent (like Finland)on a Friday Night.
We don’t usually do too well against Minnows. 13-0 maybe expected, but usually it turns out 2/3-0 …lets see as no one is really tested tonight.

Posted from  Singapore

Not sure if this mentioned, quite possibly got overlooked in the midst of transfer rumors and news, but…. Douglas has obtained his Dutch passport, and is officially eligible for Oranje national team. Fingers crossed we will see him in the next month qualifier. Hopefully this news lights up a little fire on Bruma’s or Vlaar’s rear.

Posted from  United States

@Carlos – I agree, Holland will be in control but only score 3 goals and this place will going crazy with negative comments tomorrow. They’ll be calling for BVM’s head and suggest RVP and Kuyt be taken into the streets of Rotterdam and shot on site. Tij will have to be taken into protective custody to prevent him from poking his own eyes out with a rusty butter knife! Oh its gonna be funny!

good news eric, douglas is finally dutch

Posted from  Greece

Yes, Douglas has a dutch wife, speaks enough dutch for me, a dutch kid, and somewhere around now a dutch passport and nationality.

Posted from  Netherlands

I’ll be content with a 1-0 victory.

Allthough I do consider a high goaldifference quite important with the current situation in our group (Sweden breathing only 3 points down our neck with a homegame against us left at the end of the qualifying series, meaning all they need is a homewin against us and a better goaldifference to top the group, which means they’re actually in a better position at the moment to qualify directly, obviously they still need to get passed us, so their only advantage is the fact that they’ll be playing at home, but on paper, that’s a better position if you get what I mean to say).

Posted from  Netherlands

well, not exactly come to think of it, a draw is enough for us, so I guess officially on paper it’s slightly more in our favor, but still, I think it’s dangerously close, anything can still happen (besides, how long has our undefeated status lasted now? sooner or later that run is going to end, that’s a statistical fact, let’s hope it’s a friendly).

Posted from  Netherlands

Seriously “I think it’s dangerously close”…
SAN MARINO.. wtf, they havent won a single match.. ever. Why would u worry about it at all.

Posted from  Netherlands

Alex, I didn’t any comment about the union of the feminine football league.

I REALLY hope this can work and become in the first step to mix the Belgian a Ducth football leagues in one super league.

A strong “Benelux” league will bring more money for our favorites teams and maybe we can see an Ajax keeping his stars like Barcelona does right now.

Great news! Thanks for this news Alex!

Alex you take comments out of context too much. That or you just aren’t reading carefully enough. Sol wasn’t referring to the SM game when he said it was going to be dangerously close- he was talking about the margin between Sweden and Holland in the standings. Nothing to do with SM whatsoever.

And as to your earlier tirade- when a player gets selected for the NT, he is no longer exempt from criticism, whether he be 19, 22, 28 or 30. If a player (Bruma) has yet to play a good game all season or all of the previous seasons, I’m going to start to wonder what makes him so good. I also recall him looking very shaky in the first U21 game against Ukraine (which got them eliminated.

He has also made nothing but bad career choices (leaving Feyenoord at a very early age for Chelsea, going to HSV?!?!). Then you hear him making comments saying he is at the same level as Heitinga and Mathijsen.

He is still young, especially for a CB, but is one good performance too much to ask for?

Posted from  United States

I have the feeling today we will see Wijnaldum debut with the Orange!!!

(on second half)

you take comments out of context too much. That or you just aren’t reading carefully enough.
Right back at you. lol

Posted from  Netherlands

Chelsea paid a lot of money for Lukaku and left him out of UCL squad

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story/_/id/952175/romelu-lukaku-left-out-of-chelsea’s-ucl-squad?cc=3888

Starting Line-up.
Stekelenburg
van der Weil, Heitinga, Mathijsen, Pieters
van Bommel, Strootman
Van persie, Sneijder, Kuyt
Huntelaar.

For San Marino
Who?
What, What, What, What?
Why?, Why, Why, Why?
How? and How?

lol Alex, not San Marino of course, I was looking at Sweden at the time, but nothing to worry about that anymore either now that they lost.

Posted from  Netherlands