To put it in perspective. Untill last night my country hadn't lost a Euro qualification game at home in 52 years.
Wow that's outrageous.
When was the last time the Netherlands failed to qualify for a major tournament?
Actually not that long ago, World Cup 2002. Which was also pretty disastrous considering the team we had.
saw the game and to be fair the Dutch were better with 10 than with 11 but taking huntelaar off and leaving van persie etc and ldj on the bench made no sense at all, thought things would pick up after the hugely overrated hiddink left but blind seems pretty clueless as well.
Yeah, he's heavily criticised in my country by the media for the substitions. It sucked Robben got injured and he had already used that substitution for Narsingh. But Narsingh is pretty useless unless you have like a striker that can head the ball in, as he's the kind that runs on the outside and puts crosses in for the striker. So it didn't make sense to take Huntelaar off. Although I also think he messed up by not calling Jermain Lens up in the first place, he should've come on instead of Narsingh and would've looked much better. But yeah, what's inexcusable is him using his last substitution on Promes. But from the post match interview it was apparent that Blind wanted to go for a draw after Martins Indi was send off. I think he should've taken more risk and go for the win.
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