Tottenham Hotspur only have a handful of players in action at Euro 2024 with a number of stars missing out for various reasons.
Ange Postecoglou guided Tottenham to a fifth-place finish in the Premier League this past season, securing Europa League football.
The top four evaded Tottenham but this was a decent first season under Postecoglou despite a number of players being snubbed for Euro 2024 action.
Pedro Porro was surprisingly axed by Spain whilst James Maddison was overlooked by England.
Timo Werner has also been snubbed by Germany as he returns on loan to Tottenham from RB Leipzig, so a number of Spurs players are missing from Euro 2024.
There is some Tottenham representation in the tournament; Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg has been featuring prominently for Denmark, even leaving Jamie Carragher surprised with his display against England.
Radu Dragusin has been shining for Romania too whilst centre back Micky van de Ven has been utilised as a substitute by the Netherlands.
Micky van de Ven scores twice in Netherlands friendly
Spurs centre back Van de Ven came on for just three minutes against Poland in the first group stage game before then playing 25 minutes against Austria on Tuesday.
Van de Ven couldn’t prevent a 3-2 defeat against Austria, but the Netherlands are still through to the knockout stages of the competition.
It’s a tough ask for Van de Ven to break into the Netherlands side but he is certainly giving it a good go right now.
Ronald Koeman’s side took the surprise decision to play a behind-closed-doors friendly against lowly German side TSV Havelse.
Koeman seemingly wanted to keep his squad sharp and give chances to fringe players ahead of a huge knockout clash in the coming days.
Van de Ven certainly took his chance, scoring twice in a dominant 6-1 victory for the Dutch side.
Wout Weghorst also scored twice whilst Brian Brobbey and Jeremie Frimpong got themselves on the scoresheet too.
Van de Ven may still be on the bench for the next Netherlands clash but scoring twice in a private friendly is certainly one way to try and push for a starting role.
The Tottenham star may even just feel lucky to be in contention for action right now having recently avoided an injury.
Van de Ven was involved in an incident with former Tottenham winger Steven Bergwijn during a Dutch training session.
Unsurprisingly, Van de Ven was pretty angry with Bergwijn described as going ‘all out’ on the centre back’s ankle.
That situation has been calmed down with Bergwijn apologising and Van de Ven will be hoping to have caught Koeman’s eye after avoiding an injury nightmare.
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