Tuesday night was very important for Dutch football. If the country’s national team had lost against Sweden, even away from home, or drew and failed to put in a good performance, then the downer on the team would have grown even further.
As it was, the Netherlands could only manage a draw, with Wesley Sneijder scoring their equaliser after a brilliant earlier finish from Sweden’s Marcus Berg.
But the result didn’t tell the full story, and the Dutch team very much deserved to win. Bas Dost had a goal inexplicably ruled out in injury time, and the Netherlands will feel hard done to.
But there are signs of of some kind of a revival and Tottenham’s Vincent Janssen will be central to it.
He spoke to Dutch TV after the match and has been quoted by De Telegraaf as saying: “We played well. I thought our three classes better than Sweden.
“We played in a way you could say was worthy of the Dutch national team.”
