If it is up to Willem van Hanegem, Guus Til will be part of the final selection for the World Cup qualifiers of the Dutch against Norway, Montenegro and Turkey. The 23-year-old midfielder was again good for a goal on Sunday in the match between Willem II and Feyenoord (0-4) and thus already signed for his sixth goal in Rotterdam service. Til admitted afterwards that he was somewhat surprised by his place in the pre-selection of the Dutch national team.
“There is no dissonance about Feyenoord either, although they took it very easily after the break,” Van Hanegem writes in his column in the Dutch newspaper. General Newspaper. “It all looks fresh. I saw the team against Drita in the preliminary round of the Conference League and then I was a bit shocked. But the last few weeks are looking good, people are getting excited. Feyenoord gets better with an audience in the stands. You also see that they have the content to keep up with the game for a long time.”
“Guus Til is a good example of this. Just include him in the final selection later. When I see that Donny van de Beek has been selected by Louis van Gaal for the Dutch. He never plays, does he? Til is fit and has already shot a few. Willem II was only reasonable in the first fifteen minutes, Feyenoord was lord and master,” concludes Van Hanegem. In ‘s studio ESPN there were also positive comments about Til’s performance.
“Til thinks: where have I ended up now? He himself also said in his commentary that he wanted to get in top shape at Feyenoord, because this was a moment to show that he could do more than he has achieved at Freiburg,” Arnold Bruggink analyzed. “That’s nice, the Dutch competition”, said fellow analyst Kenneth Perez. In recent years, Til barely showed up in the service of Spartak Moscow and SC Freiburg. “If you can’t figure it out abroad, the Dutch competition is wonderful. People already think for him that he will score more than 15 goals. In Russia, he showed zero point zero.”
“In the beginning it was still syrupy, but it can change quickly. After the away game against FC Drita, people were very critical and now we are great according to everyone. We also have to temper it a bit,” Til said himself in front of the camera of ESPN. “They had a good chance in the beginning, but after that we had the game completely under control. How many goals will I score this season? I really don’t know, I could honestly have made three more today.” Til gave a modest answer to the question whether his place in the the Dutch squad might not have come a bit quickly. “Of course I’m very happy with that, I’m very proud of it. Or isn’t it a bit fast? Well, to be honest, but I think it’s very beautiful.”