{"id":571736,"date":"2020-11-09T16:47:06","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T21:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=571736"},"modified":"2020-11-09T16:47:06","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T21:47:06","slug":"steven-bergwijn-tottenham-hotspur-forward-sent-home-from-international-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/11\/09\/steven-bergwijn-tottenham-hotspur-forward-sent-home-from-international-duty\/","title":{"rendered":"Steven Bergwijn: Tottenham Hotspur Forward Sent Home From International Duty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/clubs\/tottenham\/\" target=\"_self\">Tottenham Hotspur<\/a> forward Steven Bergwijn has been sent home from international duty with The Netherlands for being too unfit. Frank de Boer&#8217;s side face Spain in a friendly on Wednesday before their two Nations League fixtures against Bosnia and Herzegovina and Poland.<\/p>\n<h2>Steven Bergwijn Sent Home From International Duty<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"nl\">Steven Bergwijn is niet fit genoeg en heeft het trainingskamp van Oranje verlaten: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7xMKE2NNb2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/7xMKE2NNb2<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 OnsOranje (@OnsOranje) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OnsOranje\/status\/1325900003634778112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">November 9, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Statement From KNVB<\/h3>\n<p>A statement made on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onsoranje.nl\/nieuws\/nederlands-elftal\/78513\/steven-bergwijn-verlaat-trainingskamp-oranje\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KNVB website said<\/a>: &#8220;Steven Bergwijn has left the training camp of the Dutch national team. The Tottenham Hotspur attacker was examined by Orange&#8217;s medical staff on arrival in Zeist on Monday. It turned out that he is not fit enough and that the Orange matches must pass by.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;National coach Frank de Boer is not calling for a replacement, so the selection of the Dutch national team now consists of 24 players.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Steven Bergwijn Struggling for League Minutes<\/h3>\n<p>Perhaps the fitness issues are something that Spurs boss Jose Mourinho has been aware of. Bergwijn has only featured in four Premier League matches so far this season, instead having to settle for more game time in the club&#8217;s Europa League matches.<\/p>\n<p>The Dutchman is also yet to score this campaign but did make two assists in the 7-2 demolition of Maccabi Haifa back at the start of October.<\/p>\n<p>In his four Premier League appearances, Bergwijn has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whoscored.com\/Players\/279425\/Show\/Steven-Bergwijn\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">accumulated just 153 minutes of action<\/a> as he battles for places alongside Son Heung-min, Gareth Bale, Erik Lamela and Lucas Moura.<\/p>\n<h3>Other Premier League Players in Netherlands Selection<\/h3>\n<p>Players Bergwijn won&#8217;t be linking up with from the Premier League include defenders Nathan Ake and Patrick van Aanholt of <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/clubs\/manchester-city\/\" target=\"_self\">Manchester City<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/clubs\/crystal-palace\/\" target=\"_self\">Crystal Palace<\/a> respectively, new <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/clubs\/manchester-united\/\" target=\"_self\">Manchester United<\/a> signing Donny van de Beek and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/clubs\/liverpool\/\" target=\"_self\">Liverpool<\/a> midfielder Georginio Wijnaldum.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"enRVfvRERndHyyzCZ81MIA\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1229381571\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'enRVfvRERndHyyzCZ81MIA',sig:'MnWwqj_v8eFjCsx-0qcsAB99-_p8fcTkeLc7QnJHgp4=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1229381571',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tottenham Hotspur forward Steven Bergwijn has been sent home from international duty with The Netherlands for being too unfit. Frank de Boer&#8217;s side face Spain in a friendly on Wednesday before their two Nations League fixtures against Bosnia and Herzegovina and Poland. Steven Bergwijn Sent Home From International Duty &nbsp; Steven Bergwijn is niet fit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1144,"featured_media":571737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[161,30,3,24],"tags":[3097,423,40,1985,96,136],"class_list":["post-571736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-football","category-news","category-premier-league","category-tottenham","tag-nations-league","tag-netherlands","tag-premier-league","tag-steven-bergwijn","tag-tottenham-hotspur","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}