Due to the suspension of Marten de Roon, the Orange squad will face Italy on Wednesday with a different midfield than Sunday evening against Bosnia-Herzegovina (0-0). In Sunday’s game, De Roon was lined up as the controlling midfielder next to Frenkie de Jong. The question is how national coach Frank de Boer will solve the absence of the twenty-fold international. Kenneth Perez expects Daley Blind to be used as a controller.

Blind was set up as a left back in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The last time he was used as a defensive midfielder against the Orange squad was on October 18, 2018, in the exhibition game with Belgium (1-1). Blind played only fourteen of his seventy international matches as a controller. Under Ronald Koeman, that happened only once, against Belgium, and De Boer is expected to continue the line of the previous national coach at Orange. However, Perez advises the new elected lord to make his own plan.

According to the analyst, it is ‘very difficult’ to ask a national coach to continue the path taken by a predecessor. “Because every person is very different and solves certain situations very differently. You can never do that”, Perez notes on Monday evening in the broadcast of Football talk on FOX Sports. “He just has to follow the Frank de Boer way. If he hasn’t done it yet, he just has to do the things he wants to do without wondering what Koeman would have done.”

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“I can imagine that he will put Daley Blind in midfield”, Perez responds when asked what De Boer would do if he followed his own line. “Of course he is also a bit in the ideas of Ajax. He wants a football playing number six. That is Daley Blind. He is one of our smartest football players. He doesn’t have speed, but he can read situations earlier than others. I think people think that way. You can put Georginio Wijnaldum there, but the step from number ten to that position may be too big. “

Perez notices that De Boer is already being followed with suspicion by the outside world after one game and a few training sessions. His appointment was met with fierce opposition due to his disappointing employment contracts abroad. “It is true that almost every time De Boer faces some kind of tribunal. There is little support, so he has to apologize almost every time that he is the national coach”, the Dane indicates. “He has a certain pressure now: ‘yes, but I really can.’ And everyone is just looking: ‘Frank de Boer, let’s see.’ Now it’s again about how boring it is with him as a trainer. It seems quite difficult for him. “