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European Cup: Romania vs Netherlands
Competition time: 2024-07-03 00:00 Wednesday
Analysis of the team's recent situation:
Romania can be regarded as one of the dark horse teams in this European Cup, the team in the group stage finally relied on the first round of the group stage 3-0 defeat of Ukraine, as the first place in Group E to advance to the knockout round, in the same group of Belgium, Slovakia these strong opponents, this group stage record is not good enough, so many fans and friends also see Romania as a team that has the opportunity to be black on the big stage of this European Cup.
However, Romania's overall strength is not very strong, and most of the main players can only grow up in the home league except for Dragusin in the backline, which means that the personal foot skills of the Romanian players are relatively rough, and the last round of group stage opponents Slovakia is not actually very strong, which is not difficult to see from the fact that the players on both sides hugged each other to celebrate after the game, and the Belgian team that was not in good form did not take advantage of it. So in fact, Romania was able to emerge from the group stage more because most of the opponents in the same group were too undermatched. Now that the European Championship has come to the knockout stage, each team will pay more attention to their opponents in the course of the game, and Romania's knockout opponent Netherlands itself has good offensive and defensive capabilities, if Romania cannot show a stronger level of competition than before, then this highly anticipated dark horse team may stop there.
In terms of tactics board, the usual formation is a set of 4141 formations with a strong sense of defensive hierarchy, and more often the team is to limit the opponent's offensive advance speed through stepped defense, that is, Romania will start to defend actively from the midfield, and with the blessing of the front, middle and back three defensive lines, it is difficult for the opponent to get the opportunity to attack the goal through ground attack. Moreover, in the first game of the group stage, Romania also showed good defensive counter-attacking ability, and the relatively simple fast break option can be regarded as being able to put some defensive pressure on the opponent. Perhaps the difference of this team is that the depth of the squad is average, and the players' individual foot skills are lacking, and it may be difficult to show a stronger overall combat ability in the knockout stage, which will most likely restrict the possibility of this team continuing to move forward in the European Cup.
The Dutch team's performance in this European Championship is not good, due to the main midfielder De Jong withdrew due to injury, the Dutch team's midfield is also missing the key link hub, but fortunately, the Dutch team's knockout draw results are quite good, and the opponent Romania should also be the weakest team among all the knockout teams, as long as the Dutch players can play their normal level, I believe the team is still very hopeful to go further in the knockout round.
It is worth mentioning that the Dutch team lost 2-3 to Austria in the last round of the group stage, although this game did not have much impact on the Dutch team's qualification situation, and it was because of this defeat that the team was able to be placed in the lower half of the promotion zone where the pressure to qualify was relatively weak. However, the two own goals of the Dutch team players against the Austrian team are believed to be enough to impress the fans and friends, especially the second goal, the Dutch players are not around to interfere with any opposing players, and their goalkeeper is closer to the ball.
Personally, the Dutch team does have hope to go further in the second half of the division, but the team's technical and tactical play does need to continue to improve, Malen's personal breakthrough with the ball can not achieve too good results in the face of the bag defense, and Gakpo and Depay The lack of echo between the forward partners, it can also be said that the offensive of the Dutch team is more often created by players breaking through with the ball, once the opponent's defensive formation is relatively tight, this offensive method is often difficult to penetrate the opponent's joint defensive formation, If the team presses heavily as a result of a tough battle, the intensity of their defence will suffer, and the Dutch may feel more pressure in the knockout stages than before.
Match Analysis:
Due to Romania's previous rare appearance in major tournaments, the last time the team met the Netherlands was in a warm-up match in 2017, when the Dutch comfortably beat Romania 3-0 away from home. In the last eight meetings, Romania has one win, one draw and six losses, and is also at a disadvantage. Although the Romanian team has now set a new European Championship record in team history, the players will definitely burst out with a stronger desire to win in each subsequent game than before. However, after all, the Dutch team is a team with more experience in the competition, and the Dutch team's style of play in recent years has gradually become unpretentious, if the Romanian team can still get some offensive opportunities against Belgium and Ukraine, then against the Dutch team, there is a high probability that the offensive hope can only be pinned on the defensive counterattack, considering that the Dutch team will definitely play more conservative in this campaign, the two sides are likely to have a more fierce competition for the ball in the midfield, It is believed that the Dutch team should also need to go through a hard battle to grab the promotion place on Romania as they wish.