“As a team, we watch the footage back, always, because it’s important for the team, to improve as a team. Me, personally, I always like to watch the game back, on Dutch television normally. I like to watch my own actions to see what I could have done differently, what I did right and that’s something I usually do, but also, as a team, we watch the clips to improve as a team.”
Matthijs then provides an insight into squad meetings, saying: “Basically, we are watching clips. Most of the time, it is four different phases. The attacking phase, which means build-up and creating chances. The transition to [the] attacking phase, so basically when you recover the ball and counter-attack, and how you respond to this. Then the defensive phase and also the defensive transition. Four different phases and these are the most important phases in football, so we always get to see clips of these to see what we could have done better or what we did well.”
