The Dutch national team took a point on Wednesday to visit Italy in the Nations League. The team of the troubled national coach Frank de Boer played after a good match at times with a 1-1 draw in Bergamo. Despite the fact that De Boer is the third national coach who has not been able to win in his first three duels with the Dutch national team, he was able to feel significantly better about the encounter with Italy than from the disappointing results against Mexico last week ( 0-1) and Bosnia and Herzegovina (0-0).

“The screening in Bergamo at least gives some guidance and will diminish the desire for the Ronald Koeman period. An era that, by the way, is sometimes also a little too romanticized, because on several occasions the happiness of the Netherlands was very emphatically good, ”emphasizes football chief Valentijn Driessen in his column on Thursday in The Telegraph. “But something like this is quickly forgotten when things go a bit less in the next phase with a new coach.”

“De Boer now has a month to determine how he will continue with the Orange squad and whether the chosen tactical formation (1-5-3-2) will become the new reality.” Driessen advises De Boer to personally deal with the Koeman period and to take the reins firmly himself. “He must quickly add his own right hand to his technical staff. Preferably someone who also radiates some pleasure, because the current national coach and his assistants are not exactly smiley faces, “says the journalist.” That is not necessary, but there may be room for a certain relaxation from the staff if been sentenced to each other for ten days. ”

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Driessen states that in the run-up to next month, when duels with Spain, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Poland are on the program, De Boer should also leave his own mark on the selection. “He has to throw off Koeman’s guise, thank him for the role of Koeman 2.0 and choose his own course. Because if De Boer drowns as national coach, then preferably on the De Boer way and not as a poor substitute for Koeman. A great fear in the composition of the new selection cannot hurt and even give him the so-called ‘fear factor’. Something that belongs to a national coach of Orange. ”

“The draw in Italy has given Orange and De Boer new life. Now the national coach himself has to take the next steps without worrying about anything or anyone. ” Poland took the lead in group a1 of the Nations League due to the draw in Italy – the Netherlands. The Poles won 3-0 against Bosnia and Herzegovina, which had to continue with ten men after fifteen minutes. Robert Lewandowski (twice) and Karol Linetty provided the goals.