Paul Watson

But yeah, it's an entirely sort of Netherlands flavoured side.

Their qualification was amazing, really.

They had this final game against Jamaica that they had to get a draw in Jamaica.

And it was like you'd scripted it.

Jamaica hit the woodwork three times.

Curacao were clinging on.

And then it went to a 90th minute and Curacao still clinging on.

Jamaica get a penalty and it just looks like, oh, this is it then, you know, Jamaica can score it.

And then VAR overturned the penalty.

That's right.

And Curacao were there.

But yeah, I mean, what they'll do is what you'd expect them to do.

I think they'll sit deep and they'll try and hit on the break with a bit of pace.

They've got the Bacuna brothers, Janinho and Leandro midfield, who are decent footballers.

But yeah, it's going to be a big, big ask for them to get anything out of this tournament, I think.

I think a lot of people are saying Rufus is going to start, but he's not, I don't know how much experience, has he even been capped for the Netherlands?

Like barely, right?

Yeah, they did.

But there is really interestingly, this Japanese side's got this massive psychological problem

issue right there's so they're brilliant side they look great qualification breezing through it but at a world cup they've exited at the last 16 every single time since 2002 so they've been beaten by teams they probably shouldn't have been Turkey Paraguay Belgium Croatia