Virgil van Dijk has questioned Netherlands head coach Louis van Gaal’s ways, indicating that he helps returning Oranje’s traditional 4-3-3 formation.
Since taking up from Frank de Boer final 12 months, former Manchester United supervisor Van Gaal has gained all bar two of his group’s eight video games and has not skilled loss as soon as.
His option to strive with a 3-4-2-1 formation of their most up-to-date overcome Denmark, although, has sparked debate.
Van Dijk revealed following that consequence that he most popular to play in a 4-3-3 configuration, which he was accustomed to throughout his time at Liverpool.
”Till in the present day now we have been coaching laborious, with a number of ways and conferences. There are good instances but in addition issues to enhance,” he informed NOS.
“We are going to analyze this. In fact, we’re taking part in in a brand new system, various things are required of the gamers. However I feel we confirmed quite a lot of good issues.
“Do I just like the system? Properly, I’m nonetheless in favour of 4-3-3 however I’m not the nationwide coach and the nationwide coach has a really sturdy opinion about it.”
The Netherlands have already certified for the 2022 World Cup, which shall be Van Dijk’s first massive competitors. He was unable to compete in Euro 2016 and the 2018 World Cup as a result of Netherlands’ failure to qualify, and was dominated out of Euro 2020 final summer time attributable to harm.