Van Marwijk realizes: "It's all about the points"

Wednesday 15 October 2008

Bert van Marwijk was happy about the away victory over Norway (0-1).

But Holland's performance in the Ullevaal-stadium in Oslo was less to the liking of the bondscoach.

"It wasn't very impressing."

Van Marwijk: "It's about the points in the end. I believe the manager of Spain or Italy will not understand when he gets critical questions after a victory. Still I feel especially in the first half we should have played better."

Van Marwijk: "I expected Norway to put us under pressure in the opening minutes, but they hardly did. We controlled the game early on, but we did too little with it."