This Unknown Team Plays the Best Football in Europe

essentially its me playing fifa and pressing L1 with every pass.

If I were mid table team in a top league, that is too good to relegate and not good enough the win the league, then I would definitely look at Schreuder. You might as well make every match a spectacle.

Honestly the more I look at this the more I think Schreuder at Liverpool makes complete sense and nobody is talking about it. NEC have scored 74 goals in the Eredivisie this season, they've netted in 26 out of 27 league games and they're third in the table doing it on a budget that wouldn't cover Wirtz's weekly wages. The man is doing something genuinely special. And here's the thing people are missing — Liverpool's squad is literally built for his system without even trying. Frimpong and Kerkez as advanced wing-backs in a 3-4-2-1? Already there. Wirtz as the Advanced Playmaker finding pockets between the lines? Perfect fit. Gravenberch as the box-to-box engine? Made for it. Isak as the lone Poacher staying high and running in behind? Exactly what Schreuder wants from his striker. The pieces are already there, someone just needs to put them together properly. His system turns into a 3-1-5-1 in possession with both wing-backs bombing forward and the DM dropping between the CBs. It's Total Football but modern, vertical and absolutely relentless. Liverpool have looked so flat and passive this season — Schreuder would fix that overnight. And can we talk about the CB bomb run for a second? He literally sends his centre-backs into the opposition box routinely. Schlotterbeck doing that at Anfield every week would be the most entertaining thing in the Premier League by a mile. Yeah it's a risk. He's never managed above the Eredivisie. But FSG backed Klopp before England knew who he was. They backed Slot when nobody here recognised the name. This is exactly the kind of appointment they make. Schreuder to Liverpool is mad and perfect at the same time and I genuinely think in two years everyone will be saying they should have done it sooner. 🔴

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Disciple of Hansi Flick 😂😂

Played this team on FM a few years ago and had one of my funnest saves ever, the clubs mentality is to attack and every player has technical skill. Sano is an absolute beast

oh yeah, the bald dutch manager

Respect Rory delap's missiles

It also helps that Sano is outrageously good. NEC's scouting has been very on point.

Is this Football Excurb1a?

Someone took a lesson on Fernando Diniz,s teams. This is basically how brazilians always loved to play

The new Brighton Albion in Netherland football.

NEC is essentially a strong Eredivisie team that has been building well, helped by smart sales like Roefs and followed up with several strong signings. The squad itself is genuinely good and includes players who are among the better performers in the league, like Chery, while Sano is highly sought after by top Eredivisie clubs and by teams at a comparable level, and Kaplan is returning to his previous level after injury. Even without anything special tactically, this is simply a team that likely would have finished somewhere around the top 9. What pushed them beyond that level was the approach under Dick Schreuder. With attacking, out of the box football that opponents were not prepared for, NEC managed to outperform expectations for a long stretch. In the Eredivisie, where the default is still attacking 4 3 3, deviating successfully from that can give a team a tactical advantage for months. That is exactly what happened here, a good team combined with a system no one initially had an answer to, resulting in exciting football and strong results, including a cup final and even a realistic shot at finishing above Feyenoord and Ajax, despite both having poor seasons. You see a clear contrast with England. In the Premier League, this kind of out of the box thinking often does not last nearly as long. The level of analysis and tactical adaptation is much higher, and teams get figured out far more quickly. A coach like Ange Postecoglou at Tottenham Hotspur shows how quickly even very attacking and innovative ideas can be neutralized once opponents adjust. The problem is that this kind of advantage is usually temporary. In recent months, opponents have started to figure it out. NEC’s defensive weaknesses are being exposed more often, and going forward the element of surprise seems to have worn off. As a result, they are dropping back toward their natural level. It is now very unlikely they will catch Feyenoord, Ajax has come very close, and even FC Twente could still overtake them. If that happens, they would have to play in the European playoffs, and given their current form there is a real chance they could lose everything. That is the downside of these kinds of tactical ideas. In the Eredivisie, they can allow teams to overperform for a season, which is part of what makes the league so entertaining, but they rarely hold up over time. Eventually, modern football catches up, and that is why true top teams tend to be more pragmatic and rely on systems that remain effective in the long term.

The type of football Brazil needs to play to win world cup..

The reason why the Big league teams dont play offensive and fun football is they have to preserve energy when u have to play 50-60 games a season. The problem is there is waaaaaaay to many games so those games will be like every other entertaintment “show” - quantity over quality! If they played less games it would be alot better matches cause they are not injured or fatigued. Thats also the reason why Bayern and PSG are so good - besides having world class players and coaches their leagues are easy for em, so they Can preserve energy for important matches

That s maybe why Nagelsmann just hired his brother to be one of his assistant coaches!

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NEC has been such a amazing surprise this year in the dutch Eredivisie. Not just very entertaining to watch, but also the greatest overachievers this season: with a 8th ranked budget of only 24 million, they challenged Feyenoord (130 million) for second place and still have a good chance of finishing third, above Ajax (170 million). On top of that they reached the cup final by beating PSV (140 million) in the semi-final. Great to see it got noticed :)

I only know this team because one of their strikers Ogawa played a few times for the national team and their midfielder Kodai Sano (on the thumbnail) shares a name with a good friend of mine

Dutch football has been my favorite since seeing my first European league game in 92. It's like music to me