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Dutch players back under-fire Van Marwijk

The World Cup finalists went home after losing all three of their Group B matches - a performance so far only matched by unfancied Ireland - to Denmark, Germany and Portugal.

Their humiliated squad, who arrived in Amsterdam on Monday afternoon, are now free to follow the national discussion about what should happen to the team and Van Marwijk.

"We can't blame the coach for this, he did a great job for us in the last four years," said Sneijder.

"But there are some issues in the squad that have to be solved first, like the player who is leaking to the press about our tactical plans before matches."

In the case of Van Persie that was not surprising since England's Player of the Year did not talk to the media during the warm-up to the tournament or at the finals.

"As players we now have to face ourselves in a mirror, to see what went wrong," Robben said after the Portugal game sealed their exit. "We all failed, players and technical staff, just like everyone was responsible for our success two years ago."

He said nothing about any frustrations with Van Marwijk but Dutch TV pictures showed the winger telling his coach to "shut up" during the second half of the 2-1 defeat when he was instructed to help close down the damaging runs of Ronaldo.

KNVB director Bert van Oostveen declared after the opening defeat against Denmark that Van Marwijk's job was not at stake and he repeated that after the Portugal game on Sunday.

"Van Marwijk guided his team without any problems through two qualifying campaigns and reached the World Cup fina