Netherlands vs Chile: Wesley Sneijder blasts Chile criticisms as
'disrespectful' after Jorge Sampaoli claims Dutch were overly defensive
Snijder and team-mate Dirk Kuyt claim negative comments are a compliment of a successful defence
The Dutch players have hit back at the claims of Chile manager Jorge
Sampaoli that they were overly defensive in yesterday’s 2-0 win, with
Wesley Sneijder claiming that comments were disrespectful.
omething but they had
failed, in the 2-0 defeat. “It’s a little bit disrespectful if he says
we didn’t want to play football and we didn’t do anything today because
we were the ones who won 2-0,” he said.
“If [Sampaoli] saw us in the two games before, we didn’t play that
differently today to those two games. We know that we are very strong
and can play compact, and we know that up front with our attackers we
are very strong, so it was up to Chile to create something against it.
And they couldn’t create anything today, so that’s a compliment for our
team.”
Dirk Kuyt, who reached his 99 cap against Chile in Arena Sao Paulo,
declared: “You can say what you want, but a team who scores ten goals in
three games with an average of 3.3 goals is not really a defensive
team. Chile wanted to attack us, but they didn’t create many chances and
in football the most important thing is who creates the most chances
and who scores the most goals, and that’s what we did today.
"That’s what our quality is, and everyone knows how dangerous the Dutch team is up front.
We
believe in the way we’re playing, and we believe in our players. We
believe in the coach. I think he’s a quality coach and every time he
tells us how to play, it works.”
Dutch
manager Louis van Gaal has said winning the World Cup is out of his
control, citing the two penalties which he remains deeply aggrieved
about as evidence that officialdom can ruin things.
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