It wasn’t just Sébastien Haller’s four goals that got a lot of talk on Wednesday night. An earlier statement by Valentijn Driessen was also widely reported. In the program football talk by ESPN Driessen said earlier that the striker is too busy with himself, has no quality and therefore would not be able to compete in the Champions League. Driessen was confronted with these statements by colleague Pim Sedee on Thursday morning and went into detail about them.
“Sometimes you have something,” Driessen responds to the video that went viral on Wednesday evening. “This is a fragment of I believe a month ago, right after Ajax – PSV. Then he was also substituted and he received applause because he was substituted. Then he was in trouble with himself. At the moment there is no size on him “You often have that with strikers and former strikers. Form is something elusive and he also had that yesterday. You can say that with four goals.”
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Colleague Pim Sedee sprinkles a little extra salt in the wounds by referring Driessen to statements about Lucas Moura, about which the football chief also had his doubts in the past. The Brazilian then shot Tottenham Hotspur to the final of the Champions League at the expense of Ajax. “Have you done a self-analysis?” asks his Telegraaf colleague. “It sticks to me a bit, but I’m always asked for predictions. I always have to say something in advance. It’s very easy afterwards. You take the circumstances into account.”
Driessen emphasizes that Haller was unknown to him in the Champions League. “It’s not really the Ajax striker you expect. First post, speed, velvet ball handling, coat rack, you name it. What he can do very well is be in the right place. It really is a goal machine in that regard. now belies a lot of people, including me. As long as it lasts, because strikers always come dry again. We will see what he adds to the team. “