Seriously though Andy, Van Basten is still a very inexperienced and not so good coach (yet?) and you have to admit the defence and the midfield (De Jong-Engelaar) isn't very good to say the least. De Jong- Engelaar looked good against Italy and France, because they played very close to VDV and Sneijder. De defensive midfield duo had an easy time this way, but against russia the spaces got bigger and the weakness exposed and soon the defence was overrun the ball circulation interrupted and the creative players were on their own.
Fragile.