Ligue 1. Toulouse FC striker Thijs Dallinga ready to respond to criticism on the pitch
By Simon Vermot Desroches
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“It’s for this kind of match that you become a professional! These are the best games to play! » A few hours before kick-off of the match against Olympique de Marseille, Thijs Dallinga, the young Dutch striker from Toulouse FC with long teeth. A motivation that the world break has increased tenfold.
A “truce which did him good”, allowed “to spend time with family” and especially football “to work on his automation with his teammates“. Good news, since the start of the season was not a long calm river for the one who had scored 32 goals in 37 games in Dutch D2 last year.
A start to the season and a complicated adaptation
Remained notably 10 games without scoring, before ending this series just before the break against Rennes, the young Dutch striker then continued in the preparation match against Istanbul Başakşehir. “The preparation matches were interesting“, confirmed by the way Philippe Montanier, the Toulouse coach who adds: his player is “on a good dynamic”.
Not afraid of criticism and ready to prove
“It was important to find the way to the nets. I’m here for that, I have to do better than what I was able to offer at the start of the season”, explains the young man from 22 years old. And to face the reviews “who are part of the job”, he has his solution: to be well in his head and in his game. And this is in particular what he has worked to do in recent weeks, adapting a little more to Toulouse life, taking advantage for this of the presence of some Dutch players in the group of Tefece.
An adaptation also facilitated by the privileged relation that the young man wove with his coach, “one of the reasons why I chose Toulouse“, he concedes before adding: “I have to work hard to improve myself and give back to him what he offered me”. It can start this evening, from 9 p.m., during the match between the TFC and theOM !
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