Special Envoy of the Observer in Doha, Qatar
– I am a journalist who has just started and I really have no questions, I just wanted to show you how much admiration I have for you. [Louis van Gaal] since the age of three…
– I just want to go give you a big hug because I realized that what you said was felt and it doesn’t usually happen that often…
And he did, after the press conference. Life played a few tricks on the coach, who was already retired when he accepted a return to the Netherlands team that nobody seemed to want, but that did not even take away his good humor (on the contrary, it even increased it). it), as he had already seen himself in a less “appropriate” tirade in front of everyone in conversation with a woman in training. The spirits are high, that’s true, but it was also a testament to the confidence in a team that extended Van Gaal’s unbeaten record in regulation time to over 30. The win against Senegal further bolstered that run. Problem? Lowering the levels, the chances of winning decrease any football game. That happened to Ecuador, that was what Ecuador knew how to take advantage of. And if the Netherlands went from the feline version to Garfield after Gapko’s goal (again the best of the team), the South Americans preferred the work mouse version that went to Silver but could have ended with the gold if the former’s shot Sporting winger would not have not hit Noppert’s goal post hard.
The match practically started with the initial goal from the Netherlands, with Gpako once again as the main protagonist with a left-footed shot so strong and placed that it curled into the net after a ball recovery from Klaasen without advanced zones (6′). However, playing in a slower and more predictable way than what happened, for example, in the second half against Senegal, the Orange did not need a squeeze to show that little or no juice was brought, past the superior part of the soul. to an Ecuador that with the passage of time believed that it could risk more, could go higher and could recover from the deficit on the scoreboard, something that just did not happen before the break because Noppert blocked a shot from Enner Valencia after a play from the left to the center (32′) and for the shot that Estupiñan scored after a corner it ended up annulled due to an irregular position (45+3′).
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Source: Observadora
