Huntelaar: "One down, one to go"

Saturday 11 October 2008

Holland beat Iceland without ever being really challenged.

The 2-0 victory put Holland top of the table in group 9 and led to reasonably satisfied reactions among Dutch players.

Klaas -Jan Huntelaar: "It wasn't an easy game as Iceland are physically strong. We played fairly well, but the final pass too often wasn't good. But ahead of these two games we said we wanted to win both. One down, one to go."

Joris Mathijsen: "It was nice to score. We played well in parts of the game and created enough chances, but no, we didn't make it 5-0. We won, gained three points and should now be looking forward to Wednesday's game. That will be important."

Captain Giovanni van Bronckhorst was primarily happy with the developments in the ranking: "When you don't drop any points and the other teams do you are doing well. I thought we played at a good pace, but the passing was at times inaccurate. We should have scored more but all in all we dominated the game."

Van Bronckhorst was also happy about new man Dirk Marcellis. "He showed he was worth the manager's faith. You could see during training that he was able to cope."

For the youngster himself it took some time to fit in: "I was a bit more tensed than I usually am for matches with PSV, but I was taken up very well. During training I felt that I was ready for this level. It's great to play for your country."

The table in group 9.