Dick Advocaat has confirmed his 23-man Netherlands squad for the upcoming friendlies with Morocco and Ivory Coast.
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Netherlands face Morocco in Casablanca on the 31st of May before hosting Ivory Coast at De Kuip four days later.
A 23 man squad has been named for the two ties, with some of the selection heading for a two-day training camp in Portugal and others who have club commitments joining either before the match with Morocco, or when Netherlands face Ivory Coast. Advocaat himself doesn’t join the selection until June 6th and will name his final squad for the World Cup qualifier against Luxembourg after the friendly against Ivory Coast.
Debutants Nathan Ake and Sergio Padt remain in the squad with the only absentee’s from the provisional announcement being Daryl Janmaat, Marco van Ginkel and Jurgen Locadia, who are all injured.
The Netherlands squad confirmed. Ake and De Ligt included. Ake and Padt in line for their debut's pic.twitter.com/QD5hXM9Fj2
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Where is Karsdorp? Did I miss something? Can we get an Oranje Injury report? I see Aké being the other LB somewhere he has played before.. Tete doesn’t play most of the season but still gets called up? He’s good, yes, he might even be great in the future, but get someone out there that plays regularly. RCB we are a little thing if de Vrij goes down again, but he has played beside both Hoedt and Martins Indi. Is de Ligt really ready? Vlaar? And what formation are we using? 4-2-3-1? if that’s the case, it would seem we may have an over abundance of attack minded CM’s and not enough to play the six. Clasie, Bazoer, Hendrix, N. De Jong? Might have been some better choices than Ramselaar or Toornstra. Cillessen starts, Zoet doesn’t build up from the back as well and he’s not as comfortable with his feet. He’s nerve racking to watch when he has the ball and pressure on. Time will tell and get back in the picture. Not the team I would have chosen, but we can still do it!
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Falta Bazoer pienso yo, es un medio centro muy bueno y muy joven, asi mismo Van Persie todavia hace falta en la oranje
Based on this squad my starting team (a bit unorthodox) would be:
GK: Cillessen
LB: Ake
LCB: Hoedt
RCB: De Vrij
RB: Tete
LCM: Strootman
RCM: Vilhenna
LW: Robben
RW: Depay
9/10: Wijnaldum
9/10: Sneijder
No striker with Gini and Wes both playing a hybrid 10/ false 9 position. Gini with the pace and skill. Wes with playmaking and craftiness. Both with the ability to score goals and occupy the space betweeen the lines.
Play lopsided at times with Tete higher sitting in midfield and Ake dropping to play a back three.
When Wes gets tired, drop Gini back for Strootman and bring in Jannsen.
Definitely not Martins Indi, Blind, De Light (too early)
Unfortunately Tete to play (too early imo) bc there’s no other right wing back in side.
Meant to say Wes and Strootman replaced by Klassen and Jannsen with Gini dropping.