Lodewijk de Kruif: Absolutely not satisfied. Nobody is. But we analyze this game and we had a chance after a minute. When you score a chance like that which was an easy one, 3 meters before the goal line, then I would have expected another game. Because it would have given us a fantastic boost to make it a walkover. But we missed it. That was unfortunate. I think the first half, a lot of moments we played good football, good position play, one two touches, everybody was busy and Pakistan could only do something from the counter where they are very matured, they are very good at it. Then second half we still had a few chances over there, very simple chances. But I have to admit few players were not in the game today. Most of them were in it, 70 or 80 percent. But a few were absolutely terrible and it will have consequences because we trained them up, we talked with them, we gave them a chance and they did not take it. For me there is a rule: you can play football AND you can play a very unlucky game. Everybody has bad days. But even on a bad day you can always give 100% for the team, for the country. With a few of them I have my doubts. I won’t name names. You saw the game you figure it out. It will have consequences. Because I cannot work with those players. I want to work with players who wants to work for their country, who wants to adopt to the materials we give them and the information we give them. So we will re-select. We have a few games in the coming months. 3 games, 1 point…disappointing. Although it was a group of death, we had chances. We didn’t take our chances. Game against Nepal we weren’t ready. Game against India we had 12-13 people playing against us. This was football of the highest level. We had 5 or 6 chances. You convert your chances, otherwise you’re in trouble.
Posted on: Thu, 05 Sep 2013 13:52:31 +0000
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