Matthijs de Ligt booked an important victory in the top match against Napoli on Wednesday evening with Juventus (2-1). Afterwards, the 21-year-old defender receives a fairly critical assessment from Dirk Kuyt, who highlights a bad moment from De Ligt. “When I look at De Ligt, I think he is still not challenged enough”, Kuyt opens up his analysis Ziggo Sport.
Kuyt is particularly critical at a moment in the second half, where De Ligt was quite easily cut out by Lorenzo Insigne. The Napoli attacker therefore had a dangerous shooting opportunity, but saw Gianluigi Buffon save the short corner. “This is a moment where he is really played out too easily,” says Kuyt. “This is just not possible. At that moment in the last minute it was better, but this is too easy. Sometimes I get the feeling that he is not being challenged enough in certain moments when you need to be sharp, and then you are just not. “
According to Kuyt, De Ligt lacked maneuverability against Insigne. “What I recently heard is that he played in midfield in the Ajax youth to lose some more kilos, to become more agile. I played against him. He is a really good defender, with a lot of insight. But at those moments he gets into trouble for a while, and he has to make sure that doesn’t happen to him.
In the last minute, De Ligt stood out positively to Kuyt, when the man who fell with a falling block prevented a shot from Victor Osimhen from reaching the goal of Juventus. “In the last minute we saw the De Ligt that we want to see. He is standing there defending like an animal. Sometimes I sometimes think: if he is going to work in the Premier League, then you just have to go full for ninety minutes. bak defend. Then he becomes an even better defender. “