Lars Capiau
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The analysts at the NOS are very satisfied with the game of Jerdy Schouten. The the Dutch controller played an excellent game against Romania and was particularly noticeable for his passing.
“The ease with which he plays, it all seems very simple,” said Pierre van Hooijdonk after the match. “There are no double scissors involved, he has so many interceptions and rarely gives the ball away.”
“The first half he played with a hundred percent passing accuracy, that changed a bit in the second half. But these balls between the lines,” the analyst points out the PSV player's strength. “That's where you really accelerate the game.”
Van Hooijdonk is particularly impressed by Schouten's role in Gakpo's opening goal. The controller cut past his man and played a perfect, tight pass between the lines to Xavi Simons.
Simons served Cody Gakpo, who found his man and outwitted him, and fired a powerful shot into the near corner: 0-1.
“I think this action is great,” Van Hooijdonk accompanies those images. Rafael van der Vaart fully shares his table companion’s interpretation. “With these passes he makes Xavi Simons better, he makes those attackers better.”
“He feeds them, instead of that whole tap wide, tap wide. That sometimes makes you sick to death. Because that's where it happens in the end. And then to the side, because there's space there,” concludes the former Ajax player.
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