Sunday, June 6, 2021 at 21:37• Chris Meijer

Hans Kraay junior enjoyed Daley Blind’s performance during the practice match between the Netherlands and Georgia (3-0). The 31-year-old defender annex midfielder of Ajax made his comeback in De Grolsch Veste after he sustained an ankle injury in the World Cup qualifier against Gibraltar at the end of March and was sidelined for months.

“Delicious”, Kraay begins in studio’s studio ESPN when Blind is mentioned. “Wonderful is a beautiful word, I have great respect for it. What a winner he is. It’s just playing hard between the lines, on the right foot. Our analysts can unleash 721 Eredivisie balls on that. He hasn’t lost anything in the two or three months he’s been injured. The way he seems to train, the way he rages: I love it. I like Daley Blind.”

Presenter Jan Joost van Gangelen asks whether Blind can also play as a left back in this the Dutch. “Fine,” Kraay responds. “De Ligt should never play on the left side of a three-man defense again. Wijndal is so far away that his opponents are going into the corner behind him to make it difficult for De Ligt. They are going to make him a left back, we don’t want that. Blind was left in the center today and is used to stepping out to the left, because he has played as a left back.”

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“Timber is used to playing as a right back, so he can step out to the right. De Ligt cannot do that at all,” Kraay continues. The analyst does think that Jurriën Timber will disappear from the basic eleven of the Dutch when Matthijs de Ligt is fit again. “I would put De Ligt, Blind and De Vrij in the center, then Timber is the fastest. There is nothing wrong with that, that boy is doing very well, enjoying every second and has already shown himself for half of Europe.”

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