No easy ride for Romania, insists van Basten

0 Comments | AFP, June, 2008

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AFP) — Dutch coach Marco van Basten insisted on Sunday his side may have reached the Euro 2008 quarter-finals, but they will not be taking their foot off the pedal against Romania in Berne on Tuesday.

"Every match is important to us and the fact there will be some changes in the team does not alter anything," said van Basten on the Dutch Football Association's website.

Van Basten - attempting to add a European crown as a coach to the one he won as a player in 1988 - says he will rest some of his key players ahead of their quarter-final match in Basel next Saturday but does not envisage any lowering of the Dutch team's impressive standards.

Blackburn Rovers defender Andre Ooijer and Hamburg midfielder Nigel de Jong are likely to sit out...