Rafael van der Vaart is not pleased with the performance of Donny van de Beek. During the first half of the Champions League match between Villarreal and Manchester United, the midfielder is the one with the fewest contact with the ball. the Red Devils. That is no surprise to Van de Vaart, he says during the break on Ziggo Sports.
“That doesn’t surprise me, because that’s Donny,” the analyst responds to Van de Beek’s negative statistic. “If he doesn’t score and doesn’t get into those sixteen, then in my opinion those kinds of players are of very little use. I just think he made a very wrong choice in terms of club, because this just doesn’t fit his way of playing football. He is searching and asks himself: where should I go? He is not coached from behind. He wants to move forward, but the rest don’t want to. You just have the feeling that Donny doesn’t fit in this team at all.”
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“Whether he still plays ‘Erik ten Hag football’?”, continues Van de Vaart. “Well, I don’t think he plays football at all. He’s just searching and you just see that he just can’t do anything about that. But he just didn’t enforce it in the first few months. You just see that he is a bit in between, while he really wants to go forward: he wants to score goals and everyone else wants to go back. He’s so searching that it’s just a bit of a lost cause for him. You just notice that the players don’t trust him either,” said the analyst.
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