Ibrahimovic destroys Koeman: “Lose with your identity… that’s what you are”
He has never had any trouble saying what he thinks. Neither when he played nor now in front of a microphone. Zlatan Ibrahimovic analyzed the Netherlands' elimination with the same forcefulness with which he lived every match and placed all the responsibility on Ronald Koeman. And he didn't need too many words to sum up what he thought.'The Swedish legend was one of the harshest analysts after the elimination of the Netherlands against Morocco. "I think this defeat is Koeman's fault because I didn't recognize this Dutch national team," he said on FOX, where he works as an analyst alongside other football legends, right after the match ended. The criticism went far beyond a specific tactical approach. Ibrahimovic believed that Koeman abandoned everything that has historically defined Dutch football to become an excessively conservative team. "He lost with an identity that is not the Dutch identity and that makes me angry. Lose with your identity... that is what you are," he concluded.''His reflection was not an isolated voice during the match analysis. The program itself also questioned the manager's handling with a criticism that summed up the feelings of many. "I cannot understand Koeman's tactics and substitutions. Why change a system that has been working well for two years? And why leave proven goalscorers like Depay and Malen on the bench, especially when everything pointed to the match being decided on penalties?". '
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