René van der Gijp lacks superlatives on Monday evening to describe the performance of Frenkie de Jong in the final of the Copa del Rey against Athletic Bilbao. In Veronica Inside says the analyst that he enjoyed the ‘inexhaustible’ De Jong. The midfielder was good for two assists and a goal in the cup final won 4-0.
“I don’t know if it is so smart what Frenkie de Jong did last weekend”, Van der Gijp opens with a smile on his face. “If that game is the norm, then he really has a problem. Then he has to ask for three pairs of shoes a month from Adidas ”, the analyst continues with a laugh. “He walked all over the field dude, that fool. If you put this on the mat… He was really crazy good. ”
“What De Jong showed in the second half, you can’t do that every week, of course. That is impossible. Look at the number of meters that he has also covered ”, said the analyst. In particular, De Jong’s pass to Lionel Messi, which introduced the 0-3, appealed to the table gentlemen. Messi combined with the the Dutch-international, got rid of Unai Núñez and shot his first of the evening. “Really insane. He holds the ball just long enough to give it to Messi. And that is really great, then you have an insane amount of feeling ”, says Van der Gijp.
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Wim Kieft was also very impressed by De Jong’s performance. “I don’t think Messi would have made that run, if he hadn’t thought he could possibly expect him back. De Jong is therefore able to give that ball. That is of course also very nice, isn’t it. You always have more ‘feeling’ with one player than with another player in the field, but if you have that chemistry with the greatest ever… For that boy that is really worldly ”, the former striker of PSV, among others, concludes.
Johan Derksen fully agrees with the words of his colleagues, although he dismisses the comparison with Johan Cruijff, suggested by Wilfred Genee. “To be honest, I don’t think anyone can be compared to Cruijff. Only Messi. But Frenkie is doing fantastic indeed. Of all the Ajax players who have left abroad, he is one of the few who can hold his own very well with the new employer” , Derksen concludes.