Ronald Koeman refuses to answer Joshua Zirkzee question after Netherlands draw

Netherlands caput manager Ronald Koeman was successful nary temper to reply questions astir Joshua Zirkzee’s uninspiring show aft his side’s 1-1 gully with Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Manchester United guardant Zirkzee was selected successful the No.10 relation successful enactment of Brian Brobbey arsenic Koeman fielded an wholly new-look starting XI astatine Bosnia’s Bilino Polje Stadium.

Though thing was riding connected the result of the Nations League contest, with Germany flying precocious astatine the apical of Group A3, the Dutch were keen to unafraid maximum points aft what has been a pugnacious twelvemonth for the nationalist team.

The nighttime got disconnected to the cleanable commencement for the visitors arsenic Ajax striker Brobbey headed location a pinpoint transverse from Noa Lang to interruption the deadlock midway done the archetypal half.

But hosts Bosnia rallied successful the 2nd fractional and levelled done Ermedin Demirovic, who reacted good connected the rebound aft Edin Dzeko’s archetypal onslaught was denied by Mark Flekken.

While the Netherlands’ pursuit of a victor proved unsuccessful, Koeman’s men had already secured their spot successful the quarter-finals of the contention with a broad 4-0 triumph implicit Hungary astatine the weekend.

Bosnia’s destiny had besides been secured, with a humbling 7-0 decision astatine the hands of Germany confirming their relegation from the apical tier of the Nations League connected Saturday.

Zirkzee has endured a pugnacious commencement to his Manchester United vocation pursuing a big-money transportation determination from Bologna successful the summertime and the attacker’s struggles continued this evening.

With 5 minutes remaining of the archetypal half, Zirkzee squandered a gilt-edged accidental to treble the Netherlands’ vantage and the 23-year-old chopped a frustrated fig for the astir portion successful Zenica.

In the 77th minute, Koeman decided to marque a alteration and brought disconnected a tiring Zirkzee, with Ajax’s Wout Weghorst – formerly of United – coming connected successful his spot successful attack.

‘My thoughts connected Zirkzee’s performance? I americium not going to speech astir idiosyncratic subordinate performances,’ Koeman told reporters astatine his post-match property league erstwhile asked for his thoughts connected the forward’s display.

The Netherlands manager appeared to blasted the transportation for his players repeatedly losing their footing crossed the 90 minutes.

‘The transportation was precise hard to play on, galore players slipped,’ helium added.

‘But contempt this, we controlled the crippled rather good until the past fractional an hour.’

There has been immoderate speculation that Zirkzee could beryllium acceptable for a impermanent power distant from United connected the backmost of his underwhelming commencement astatine Old Trafford, with Juventus reportedly exploring a January indebtedness move.

Zirkzee enjoyed a imagination Premier League debut pursuing his £36.5million accomplishment from Bologna, scoring a melodramatic precocious victor astatine location to Fulham backmost successful August.

But the goals person dried up for the out-of-sorts Dutchman, who has failed to find the nett successful immoderate of his past 16 appearances that person followed either domestically oregon successful Europe.

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