Netherlands boss Danny Blind believes his side deserved at least a point in their 1-0 defeat to France on Monday.
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Netherlands now face an uphill struggle to top their World Cup qualifying group after Paul Pogba’s first-half strike was enough to earn France a 1-0 win in Amsterdam. The defeat moves Netherlands from top of group A to third and three points behind both Sweden and France.
After the game, Danny Blind spoke to NOS and stated he feels his side should have got at least a draw, “This is very disappointing, because we deserved a point. We were well organised against a team with more quality than us. This difference we had to compensate with a good organisation and strong will. We did.”
Just like the draw in Sweden, Netherlands failed to take the chances they created and Blind admitted he is growing tired of his side shooting themselves in the foot, “I’m sick of it, but Sweden-away felt worse. That match was often in my mind in recent days. We had six points from two games to start this competition. Then all iwe did today was a bonus. ”
However, the coach is refusing to give up hope on finishing top of the group, “The group is still open. It is up to us to win the next match against Luxembourg, “
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please wake up blind you are coaching the Netherlands one of the best team in football history to say we deserved a point in our hometown means that you dont know who you are coaching we are not a team from the second row we must win every game
you are ruining the team and the dutch history too
Blind, Please leave Netherlands alone. You always try to find excuses for unacceptable appearance. You are talking about the Dutch team who was close to win world cup in the last 2 competitions. Stop saying we deserve, almost, or we were close to. This is soccer almost, close, we deserve don’t count in soccer. You can’t bring better result so you don’t deserve to be the Dutch coach. LEAVE NOW.
Should have start de vrig instead of bruma !!!
This Netherlands team is crap but unfortunately the selection process is complete shambles. Why on earth is the manager selecting players who are not playing regular football for their clubs? Depay and Vincent Janssen, they have been warming the benches for their club team in EPL. If you are not playing regularly for your club you should not get selected for the national side but we see complete contradiction from Blind (Bag of POO). Why do Dutch players and managers give such a high status to players playing in EPL and every young Dutch player (potential to be a great) wants to leave Netherlands at such an early age (between 18 – 24)?
Dutch football is in real crisis, all the youngsters who coming through e.g. Depay are made to believe they are the next Dutch legend (LMAO). The only way players will become great is if they play their football in the Dutch league and don’t leave until they are 25. In this way, it will help them to build the Dutch way playing and ingrain the thought process on how technical Dutch football works. Presently, the Dutch does not have any outstanding players in their team, few good players and remaining are just your average fart.
Football pundits still admire Dutch club youth system and label it as some of the best youth football development in the world but the problem is youngsters are leaving too early before their development is finished. What do you get? Players like Ryan Babel, Memphis Depay and many more.
Well there is an upside to all this, Dutch team can do circus show around the world. THE FAMOUS CLOWNS IN ORANGE. They surely are not going to be playing in a World cup in 2018.
Sometimes, I think he’s watching another game!
Sometimes, I think he’s watching another game! Play to your strengths! Stop putting players in positions that they are seeing for the first time or haven’t played since they were eight years old. I know what position they play and where they appear to be strong and I bet there are a lot more people on here that know that as well. If you were Blind what would your starting XI be and in what formation?
The Biggest Mistake that Netherlands made is to let Bert van Marwijk go. Just look at what Bert van Marwijk is doing now to Saudi Arabia national team he took the team who failed to reach world cup last 3 times 2006, 2010, and 2014 and made them on the top of their qualifying group with not even 1 defeat in the last 12 matches since qualifying matches to wroldcup 2018 has started. Bert van Marwijk can make the changes but poor Danny Blind doesn’t have the needed skills for the Netherlands.
I don’t know what to say but this team has turned into a disaster!!! I’m a huge fan of Oranje yet this is the worst…..
We ain’t lack of talents but that unexperienced lame manager simply downgrades them….
I can’t believe KNVB still entrust the team to him after series of shame he has brought…
A point is not enough at this crisis time. You are on borrowed time. Please resign before be sacked.
Sadly we have a problem that has always been there with the national team. There is more pride in looking good than winning. When Bert van Marwijk and Louis van Gaal had the courage to do what they had to do in order to play for the result, they were criticized. Even in 2010 when we made the World Cup Final, the team was criticized for not playing beautiful enough.
I agree completely with the notion that our players are leaving too early. Memphis was well on his way to greatness, but he needed 3 more years at PSV. Look no further than a player like Luuk de Jong, who is only doing well again after coming back to the Eredivisie at 24 (2 years ago) after leaving at 22 to score 6 times for Mönchengladbach and Newcastle over 2 years.
Maybe he KNVB needs a rule similar to how the Italians used to not call you up to the national team if you played abroad. Obviously we cannot go that far, but we need something to encourage our players to stay longer because they would rather take the money than proper development as players these days.
All the comments made here of Oranje make sense. Hopefully Blind & company are reading this and taking some of these comments into consideration. The team lacks leadership! Robben, Sneijder injured, so Blind needs to call another veteran player to help guide these guys. Van Persie or Huntelaar, yes are older but they won big games for Holland. Rinus said once, u don’t win games if u don’t score. JAMMER!
Van Persie doesn’t exactly scream “Leadership” and Huntelaar would be great in there as well, we have Stekelenburg. The thing is you need more than one or two and when two of them are injured, well it doesn’t leave us with much. It’s time for the newer vets to step up, we have long relied Sneijder, Robben, van Persie and Huntelaar. Step up new Oranje generation!
Yes true. . We could use Nigel. Just sad that Holland is enduring this. Or shall I say us fans!