The Dutch national team trained in Qatar on Thursday in preparation for the World Cup meeting with Senegal next Monday. Pascal Kamperman was on behalf ESPN attended that training and saw that many suspected basic players were awarded a yellow vest in the match form. Andries Noppert was the goalkeeper of that team.
The final match form was reason for the journal to take a good look at which players were placed in which teams. Kamperman stated that the yellow team contained many players who were in the starting line-up in recent games. “They had Jurriën Timber, Virgil van Dijk and Nathan Aké,” says the reporter of ESPN. “Behind the goalkeeper, Andries Noppert. Before that stood Frenkie de Jong, Cody Gakpo was also in that team and also Steven Bergwijn and Vincent Janssen.”
Kamperman does not know how much value he should attach to the distribution of the vests, but finds it striking that so many suspected basic players were in a team together. “I know it is speculation and that it may not say much, but I found it remarkable that those players were in a team together. Whether Noppert will be the first goalkeeper is the question. He also dropped a few balls by means of.”
The World Cup starts on Sunday evening with the opening match between Qatar and Ecuador, the two other countries that are also in the group of the Netherlands. That game starts at 5 p.m. Dutch time. On Monday afternoon from 5 p.m., the the Dutch will play against Senegal, after which the confrontation with Ecuador is scheduled for Friday afternoon. The group stage will be concluded by the Netherlands with a match against the host country on Tuesday, November 29.
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