Louis van Gaal says he has two options left for the right winger position with the Dutch national team, he announced during the press conference on Tuesday afternoon. The national coach of the Dutch saw Steven Berghuis drop out with an injury and brought Steven Bergwijn into the selection as a replacement. In addition to the Tottenham Hotspur attacker, Donyell Malen can also play as a right winger, says Van Gaal.
Van Gaal chose Berghuis as the right striker during the past two international matches against Gibraltar and Latvia. “But now someone else is going to play, it’s that simple,” said the national coach. “Then the preference of players goes aside for a while. I see Malen and Bergwijn as options as right wingers. Noa Not long. I can’t implement another system in a week or within three days. I didn’t like what Lang was doing there, on the right side. Do you? That’s possible,” Van Gaal refers to the debut of the Club Brugge attacker against Latvia.
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“Now two right-footed players (Malen and Bergwijn, ed.) are eligible. Then you have to go outside. The new tendency that you are stuck with that position with your wrong foot… That is not for nothing that that That’s also because the backs come up much more than before. That has to do with that. As a national coach you can fish from a larger pond, then it shouldn’t be the case that there are no right strikers with a left leg “Berghuis is injured and he won’t come back, I don’t think, until Saturday. I’ll wait to see if he comes. But if he has a formidable rehab in a week, he could get back on it. That could be. But I don’t expect it .”
According to Van Gaal, no one has said ‘no’ to the right-wing position. “Actually not. These guys have so much ambition, they really want to play for the Dutch. I think I abuse that a bit. I think you should let players play in their power. That’s why I talk to players. Then they say that they can play better in that position or in that position. That’s not always possible. That’s the big problem.”
Van Gaal emphasizes that he has made more frequent changes in that position in the past. “The last time it was Malen against Gibraltar and then he scored a very nice goal. But it could also be Bergwijn, I still have to find out in training.” For the left winger position, Van Gaal selected Arnaut Danjuma, who was injured last weekend at Villarreal against Getafe. “Danjuma is reasonably fit, I think. He looks very positive, but we all have to wait and see. It’s not that he can train tomorrow or today, but it looks positive.”