Thread:FranceSwitzerland/@comment-26841353-20160514191058/@comment-26272757-20160527180138

Fire mummy wrote: Is changing coach the reason that Netherland was 4th in group A of qualifying? I think there are many reasons

Robben's injury (and Krul and Strootman, AS Roma) while he was the most important player, Netherlands overestimated themselves and underestimated opponents while opponents were quite good and we relatively bad, old players (Van Persie, Stekelenburg, Van der Wiel, Sneijder, Huntelaar, Vd Vaart, Nigel "karate kid" de Jong) were out of form, while new players were not good enough yet, and there was not much in between. When Hiddink was coach he didn't seem to know what he was doing and seemed confused all the time (don't know why, and it's gone now he is at Chelsea) while new coach Blind makes beginner mistakes: one match we played with three attacking midfielders in one midfield!

I really think, in a group with Czech, Turkey, Iceland and two others and the first 2/3 go through, there is a 99% chance that Netherlands go through and because of reasons the 1% happened.