Van Dijk on beating Malta: We did our job, it s difficult to maintain the rhythm in a stadium like this

On October 10, in the European preliminaries of the World Cup, the Netherlands defeated Malta 4-0 in an away game. Dutch central defender Van Dijk accepted an interview with the media after the game.

"Do I enjoy playing games like this? It's part of the journey, we've done our part, we're on our way to the World Cup and we have three key games to play."

"I thought we started well, the tempo was faster than it was later. Although we did Give the opponent a chance. But you know how difficult it is to maintain a rhythm on this kind of field, so at some point, our passing will become a little loose and sluggish."

"We won this game and now we have to focus on the next one."