Barca4Life wrote:The Dutch national team and our current under 17s/20s playing a similar style of football, they dont create alot of movement, and dont interchange positions compared to Spanish, i wonder why the dutch dont play that type of 4-3-3?
Maybe Decentric might know this answer?
Because that was evidently clear from the watching the world cups so far.
When I read Les's article he appears to confuse
movement with
rotation of players.
That is also Fozzie's take. Yet the Dutch place great emphasis on movement when a team is in possession of the ball in their coaching courses. One has to look very carefully at who writes what in the football media, and what insights they have into coaching. At the same time I can usually see sound rationale in what Fozzie elucidates in his analyses.
I would like to see Fozzie explain in detail what he means by the Dutch emphasising
positional play to play out from the back compared to the Spanish relying on
movement.If one watched the Dutch national team before/during the last World Cup and in friendlies prior, they played with a lot more attacking intent against mediocre teams. They adopted a conservative strategy against Spain in the WC final.
Against Uruguay in the WC semi-final they had 62% possession. This indicates attacking football was played. Holland also alternated Robben and Kuyt on the wings , even in the WC final. Holland also thought Kuyt was a better defensive player to nullify Ramos' attacking verve on the left. They generally attacked through Robben against Capdevila on the right. When Robben cut in, he also frequently beat Xabi Alonso. He dribbled around Spanish players, mainly Capdevila, Alonso and Busquets, on 14 occasions in the final. This is a high number for just one player.
In the last WC Holland wanted to win the tournament, rather than show how good they were, which was the case in most previous World Cups.
If one saw Holland play against Australia in Sydney they absolutely dominated the game playing attacking football throughout. Van Marwijk was the coach too.
Van Marwiijk wanted to instil unity of purpose in his team. An ingredient missing from previous WC and Euro tournaments. He did. He used his son in law, the tough Bayern captain, Van Bommel, and De Jong, to really knock the stuffing out of other teams' creative attacking players. Many Dutch long term fans were disgusted.
Edited by Decentric: 13/8/2011 08:53:16 PM