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National coach overestimated the strength of Oranje-B
CARDIFF – Louis van Gaal has overestimated the strength of his ‘shadow team’. And at the moment perhaps also the quality of his selection, which he ranks higher than that of his bronze World Cup team from 2014. Against Wales, the national coach switched the successful team that had defeated Belgium on eleven (!) places on Friday and between Orange. -B and the regular basic players turned out to be a gaping hole. The fact that the Orange squad made the 1-2 after a bizarre final phase, in which the 1-1 was collected in extra time but Wout Weghorst made the 1-2, said more about Wales, which was also weakened than about the Netherlands.