Valencia!
Day 6: Wales vs Iran | Qatar vs Senegal | Netherlands vs Ecuador | England vs USA
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He's been important for Atalanta this season. I think the lack of cohesion in the team is just making everyone look poor.
Tony V <3
de Jong would be too weak for the Premiership. Shades of Donny?
I think you'd want to avoid playing Ecuador than The Netherlands in the next round
Yep. Nice seeing him.
Eyyyy Tony V!!
Easily.
Memphis has been terrible
Memphis 
I thought that Klaassen was Donny. The way they move were petty much identical. And also the way they affect the game so far too...
Man, the Ecuador LWB is immense. Super workrate. Brighton really has bought smartly.
Netherlands has been poor since they lead. Disappointed with them so far. Ecuador isn't as naive as Senegal.
He looks great! Not aged at all
We really missed out on Cassiedo.
It's not about BIG wrong calls and more to do with the inconsistency.
Did you see the penalty not awarded to Qatar earlier? How is that not a penalty if Cristiano's is?
I can understand refs making mistakes, they always have done and I'm fine with that. What I don't underatand is how VAR can approach things in such completely different ways. They didn't even call on the referee to have a look at it.
That, specifically, is what bugs me the most. VAR ultimately ends up picking and choosing what they make a big deal of, which is shady as feck.
I'm not even talking corruption and favouritism, I'm actually wary they could surgically manage the excitement around a game/group. e.g. "This game needs a goal to open up"
Entertainment management taking precedence over the sport, that's where we are heading with VAR I'm afraid.
Yeh
Netherlands topping the group on yellow cards.
LvG set this Dutch team up to fail. 5 defenders, essentially 1 midfielder in DeJong, attackers just floating around with no cohesion.
Uh oh, Valencia down
This performance epitomises an LVG team. Only one shot on target so far which was the goal itself.
Oh no. Hope he's not too badly injured
Seems energy will be a very important component of any potential winners of the WC.
Van Gaal football making me weep.
Tony V Could still run the right wing by himself couldn't he? fit as a fiddle
It's crazy to think that 20 years ago Holland and Italy had so many good players you didn't know who to pick. No idea what's going on at the youth level. If you look closely at the players born in the 80s. Italy's failed miserably there's like 3 maybe 4 players born in that decade you could say were among the elite or at least good enough to be mentioned among the elite.
@BenitoSTARR has joined the chat.
Such a shame
Remember back in 2008 when the Dutch could pick between van Nistelrooy, van Persie, and Huntelaar for the center forward role? Imagine being reduced to bringing on Wout Weghorst when you need a goal.
Ah that's sad.
Donny is/was a improved Klaassen. Both good without the ball but Donny is better on it. One went to Everton and one went to Manchester United. Both failed.
That looks gutting for Valencia. Hopefully nothing too serious.
Blimey - dodgy goalkeeper.
And before that Hasselbaink and Makaay struggled to be selected for the national team
A poor mans Chris Wood.
Cute kid
I've seen Kenneth Taylor be compared to Kroos on here, so potentially another option that deserves an opportunity.
Meanwhile France has just an embarrassment of riches with the current generations they’ve produced.
Really think it’s just cyclical though.
draw is fine for the dutch....they'll beat Qatar and win the group