"Thanks for the advice, but I prefer to stay with my ideas and we will continue to play 3-5-2".
Holland coach Frank De Boer has not lost his good humor, and responds with a smile to the question that, inevitably, is addressed to him about what happened during his team's training, or rather the plane that flew over the Zeist technical center dragging one banner with the words "Frank, only 4-3-3", an appeal to the coach to change form. Tomorrow there is the debut at Euro 2020 against Ukraine, but the fans of the orange, lovers of offensive football, will have to resign themselves: the coach does not change, and will continue with the back three department, despite the absence of two defenders of the caliber of Virgil Van Dijk, out of the tournament due to injury, and Juventus' Matthijs De Ligt, who has a thigh problem and will be out tomorrow. "It's early for him - explains De Boer -,and look forward to seeing if it will be available for the next game. We hope that this European will last a long time for us, and for this reason now I prefer not to risk it because it will come in handy later. If we were to play a final, I would probably play him, but this is only the first game, and I don't want to take unnecessary risks. "