Marciano Vink is very impressed with the performance of Cody Gakpo, the analyst says in the program The Grandstand from ESPN. The 21-year-old attacking midfielder of PSV came into action on Sunday against FC Groningen, which was beaten 1-0 in Eindhoven. According to Vink, Gakpo has long shown that the PSV player belongs to the Dutch and that he should be given preference over Ryan Babel and Calvin Stengs.
“A great player with a bright future”, Jan Joost van Gangelen mentions Gakpo’s performance. “You think he will go to the European Championship, right?”, The presenter asks Vink, who is very positive about the attacker’s game. “Certainly, yes. Like he played football last season, but certainly in recent months … He just belongs. And there are a number of them (at Oranje, ed.) With whom I have the necessary doubts ”, says Vink.
“Then you think of Stengs, for example?”, Van Gangelen responds to the comment of his colleague. “Yes, that is certainly someone with whom I have my doubts. And I also have my doubts with Ryan Babel. I think Gakpo is a lot further than those two players. He’s mega goal-oriented too. He’s got guns and he just shows it weekly. We don’t see Babel much and I hear that he also often sits on the couch. One week Stengs has great promotions and the other week you wonder whether he was participating ”, Vink concludes.
Gakpo regularly showed himself in a positive way against Groningen. For example, after fifteen minutes of play, the attacking midfielder took the ball out of the air from a distance and hit the crossbar hard. In the second company, a goal by Gakpo was also disallowed, because he was narrowly offside before finishing with left on a pass from Donyell Malen. In the final phase, Gakpo did kill a big chance: the attacker first cut out a defender and then shot wide through Padt’s body.
Gakpo himself is satisfied with the game that PSV put on the mat and he thinks it is a shame that his shot from outside the box hit the crossbar. “I think we played well at times, but we failed to deal the final blow and score more. At the beginning it also took some getting used to having the people in the stadium, but in the end it gave us a lot of positive energy. ”