Leander Schaerlaeckens

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344 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 12 Jul

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Football Weekly · Brian Brobbey bags a brace and Deniz Undav, supersub: World Cup Daily · 21 Jun 2026 podcast

And he always looked like such a prototypical Ajax striker, such a Dutch striker, a target man who could sort of do a bit of everything.

who's just really good on the ball, really good with his back to goal, really physical, really fast.

And so he's capable of these things.

And honestly, with the way he played, it kind of made me wonder, watching this match, whether Graham Potter had ever watched a Dutch team play before.

Because Ronald Koeman does not do unusual things for a Dutch coach.

He does not do exciting things.

He is a Dutch school 4-3-3 wing play ideologue, and he does not deviate from that.

And those first two goals that Broby scored, they were sort of prototypical Dutch style goals, right?

Ball up to the target man, out wide, low cross comes back, someone is there to tap it in.

So I was really surprised by how befuddled Sweden seemed to be by the Dutch early

So I've been watching this Dutch team my whole life.

I was born there.

And I have a really hard time trusting this generation because it's sort of this mind warp that I can't quite get my head around because there's something deeply ironic by this generation of Dutch players, which is that historically there would just be a glut of attacking talent.

Playmakers, creative players, wingers, strikers, we just mass produce them.

And if there happened to be a few serviceable defenders, that would be a golden generation.

And this one is sort of the other way around, where there's just this abundance of defenders.

I mean, keep in mind with this team that Jurgen Timber is injured, Matthijs de Ligt is injured, Nathan Ake was on the bench, and they still have a really strong back four, although they do seem to be...

easily exposed on the counter with a little bit of speed, because Virgil van Dijk just doesn't have it anymore.

And so the problem with this generation is finding sort of enough attackers that could piece it together, and they still don't really have an entirely... Brian Brobbey's been really good for one game, but does that make for the model that they're going to follow from now on?

So...

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