The Dutch national team’s victory over Montenegro (4-0) in the World Cup qualifiers has been well received by the Dutch media. The team of national coach Louis van Gaal thus fulfilled the condition to be able to grab the lead in the group next Tuesday in the Johan Cruijff ArenA against Turkey, which won the first game 4-2 and now has one point more. The good news for Van Gaal was that Memphis Depay – Georginio Wijnaldum was back as the decisive tandem. The Telegraph.
Depay took the first two hits and number three was for Wijnaldum. “The improved performance desired by Van Gaal put the the Dutch on the mat against Montenegro. They attacked at a faster pace and with more creativity, while the Montenegrin outbreaks were convincingly nipped in the bud with another fine role for Stefan de Vrij. (…) The Dutch national team showed signs of recovery after the elimination at the European Championship and the difficult display against Norway.”
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“Tuesday against Turkey, the Dutch national team must show whether that can be continued towards the first place in the group,” emphasizes The Telegraph. It General Newspaper writes that on Saturday it was ‘finally Memphis Depay’s evening at the Dutch again’. “In the Eindhoven stadium where he broke through as a teenager, in his seventieth international match, Memphis set the Dutch national team on course against a stiff Montenegro. First by cleverly decorating a penalty and using it himself.”
“Then by hitting hard in the short corner, after more than an hour of play, in a phase in which the the Dutch threatened to make it unnecessarily difficult for themselves.” According to Sjoerd Mossou, the big win over Montenegro also somewhat obscured the fact that the Dutch’s game had been difficult for a long time. “Laughing, Van Gaal celebrated the party on the sidelines, in the knowledge that the Dutch national team is gradually starting to take shape.”
“On a summer evening in Eindhoven, the the Dutch squad especially needed hard shots from Memphis Depay to distance themselves from the average Montenegro (4-0),” he added. de Volkskrant to read. “Depay, playful, effective, technically gifted and often with surprising ideas, shot very hard on Saturday. (…) Memphis sometimes evokes aversion in the country, because he takes risks and the ball is lost more often than many would like.”
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“When he has his day, it is a pleasure to watch him”, emphasizes Willem Vissers. “Football is a team game, but fortunately there are still footballers who dare to do something, who have ideas and who dare to implement them, who are creative. The striker dropped frequently to get the ball, he swerved to the wings and worked for three.” The journalist believes that there is ‘quite a lot of positive things to report’. “The fighting skills and attacking spirit of national coach Louis van Gaal’s team. Apart from a few sloppiness, the reasonably solid defense with Matthijs de Ligt instead of Virgil van Dijk (rest).”
“The very nice debut of left back Tyrell Malacia, except for one terrible ball, the dribbles of Depay and the sovereign playmaker Frenkie de Jong, the improved game of Steven Berghuis, the work ethic and running power of Davy Klaassen, the emergence of the wing defenders. There is nothing wrong with the setting anyway. The spark also spread to the audience, who were audibly happy to have another outing.” Also according to Fidelity it was Depay who helped the the Dutch against Montenegro over the threshold. “He is regularly reviled by Dutch football fans. But in the stadium where he became a professional football player as a PSV player, Depay showed on Saturday evening what value he can have for the national team.”