Dutch Football - Eredivisie - AZ-Ajax 2-0 - Van Gaal: "We could have scored more"

"The intellectualisation
of football has
always foundered
on a simple problem-
-the players. Doing
all your most
rewarding thinking
with your feet seems
to dull the philo-
sophical impulse.
Unless, of course,
you are Dutch.
According to legend,
Europeans played
a moronic, muscular
version of the world's
game, until Holland
proclaimed its vision
of total football in the
1974 World Cup,
and enlightenment
dawned."

From:
Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Football

Van Gaal: "We could have scored more"

Sunday 23 November 2008

AZ coach Louis van Gaal stated that his team had made a lot of mistakes even though they had beaten Ajax 2-0.

"How well could we have played without those mistakes?" he asked himself.

"I felt we gave the ball away too easily at times. When they had the ball we did things a lot better. Perhaps we should have scored more but all in all I'm quite happy. AZ have beaten PSV twice this season and we are getting stronger and stronger. Where this will end? I do not know. On Friday it's away to Groningen, not a bad side themselves."

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