Published 10.53
ARLINGTON. Sweden drove over Tunisia in the premiere.
Now awaits a Netherlands that knows what awaits them.
– We know they have very good players, says Frenkie De Jong to Sportbladet.
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When Sportbladet talks to the Dutch stars, they have just stepped off the pitch after 2-2 in the opener against Japan in Group F.
– We played against Japan just now, we have to recover first. Then we will analyze and build a plan, says Frenkie de Jong to Sportbladet when the next opposition is brought up.
Sweden. On Midsummer Day.
– I know they have very good players. It’s a good team, says the Barcelona star.
Brighton defender Jan Paul van Hecke has a similar analysis.
– A tough match. They have a couple of good strikers. We have to be ready for them, he says.
Van Dijk: “They have a striker I know…”
Virgil van Dijk looked at the Sweden match and analyzed it in the same way as all other matches.
At least if one is to proceed from what he answered when he was asked by Sportbladet after the premiere how he would follow the Swedish premiere in Monterrey.
– We look at it in the same way as with all matches. Analyzing how they play, what they do with and without the ball, says the Liverpool midfielder and continues:
– We have a week to go. We are meeting a striker I know quite well (Alexander Isak). Another striker who has done very well this season in the Premier League (Viktor Gyökeres). Once it’s kick off we must, and will, be ready for them.
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