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Tottenham legend Rafael van der Vaart delivers damning verdict on Micky van de Ven’s performance vs Germany
Tottenham Hotspur legend Rafael van der Vaart was rather critical of Micky van de Ven who was part of the Netherlands side who lost to Germany.
Ronald Koeman’s team slipped to a 1-0 defeat awa♍y to Germany in the Nations League as Jamie Leweling scored the only goal of the game for the hosts.
The Spurs defender had a tricky evening as he was filling in for the suspended Virgil van Dijk and it was clear that the Liverpool man was a big ౠmiss.
The Dutch defence was all over the place without their captain which led to the Dutch media and 🃏Van der Vaart being suཧper critical of the youngster who came to replace him.
Van Der Vaart slams Van de Ven’s display vs Germany
Van der Vaart believes that the Netherlands really missed Van Dijk in the defeat to Germany and claimed the drop off from him to Van de Ven was substantial.
Van Dijk was sent off in 🐟Holland’s🅷 match against Hungary with the Netherlands lining up with Bart Verbruggen, Denzel Dumfries, Van de Ven, Stefan de Vrij and Jo🎃rrel H💃ato as their back-four.
Speaking live on the Dutch broadcast NOS after the game, Van der Vaart said: “I don’t easily get ashamed of the Dutch team, but today I did. We attribute so ▨many qualities to them, but this… It’s completely wrong.
“You can analyse i𝔍t, but everything just goes wrong. 🅰Then we have doubts about the absence of Virgil van Dijk, of course, you miss him. All well and good, Micky van de Ven, but this is no Van Dijk.”
The Dutch media critical of Van de Ven vs Germany
The Dutch media we🌱re also highly cri♏tical of Van de Ven’s display with writing: “The Tottenham Hotspur defender was far from convincing and looked very nervous.
“Van de Ven was a source of unrest, partly due to the apparent total lack of communication at the back. It was chaos, also with capt💯ain Stefan de Vrij and goalkeeper Bart Verbruggen. It all seemed to be directly traceable to the absence of Van Dijk.”
Meanwhile, rated the 23-year-old’s performance a 4.5/10 and gave him a five. Van de Ven has had a tricky few weeks having also been disappo𒅌inting in Spurs’ 3-2 defeat against Brighton.