More and more Orange fans want a PSV player instead of the “apathetic and uninterested” Ajax man

The hour of truth is approaching for Ronald Koeman and his staff in relation to the announcement of the full squad of the Netherlands national football team for the World Cup in the United States, Mexico and Canada. These are also exciting days for Guus Til.

Til appears to be close to a place in the selection for the global finals. A striking detail is that more and more football fans are opting for Til’s team instead of, for example, Wout Weghorst, who is having a mediocre season with Ajax. As a result, Weghorst is being called “lazy and apathetic” on social media, but people have found the striker from Twente in recent weeks and months to come across as primarily uninterested.

ESPN analysts Sjoerd Mossou and Anco Jansen also voiced plenty of criticism about Weghorst’s play. The pair wonder whether Ronald Koeman should really take a player of this caliber to the World Cup. Jansen was shocked by one specific moment.

Ajax played a fine match on Thursday evening at the KRAS Stadium against FC Groningen (2-0 victory), but Weghorst was the weakest on the side of the Amsterdam team. "He was indeed the major discord in Ajax’s play", judges Algemeen Dagblad journalist Mossou on the ESPN program Voetbalpraat. "Not only because of the chances he misses, but because he simply reaches a mediocre level."

This moderate level is not the first time Weghorst has fallen short this season. Nevertheless, he is presumably expected to be at the World Cup with the Netherlands national team in a few weeks. Mossou believes that doubts may well be raised about that: "He’s a pinch-hitter and has to make a difference in the last ten minutes. But you may, in principle, expect a certain minimum level from a player of the Netherlands national team who is going to a World Cup", the journalist says. "If you’ve watched Weghorst this season, then it’s also pretty bleak that he’s still getting included."

Mossou knows that Weghorst has proven himself in the past as a pinch-hitter for Oranje, but the journalist has doubts all around: "He’s done brilliantly in that role, for example in Qatar, but for a striker of the Netherlands national team it’s still rather thin."

Anco Jansen agrees with Mossou, as he says on Voetbalpraat. "If as a striker for Ajax and the Netherlands national team you don’t manage to get something off at least a shot in your actions, that was really bizarre to see. It looked unbelievably bad."