“Weworked hard to get there and nowwewant to do well”

There aren’t many 21-year-olds who will go into this summer’s tournament with as much pressure on their shoulders as De Ligt.

Having made his international debut at the age of 17, the Juventus defender has already been a key member of the Dutch squad for the past few years, forming a solid partnership alongside skipper Virgil van Dijk. Yet with the Liverpool man’s place at the tournament in doubt following his knee injury, there is every chance that De Ligt will be the Netherlands’ first-choice centre-back at Euro 2020 – in spite of a shoulder injury that ruled him out of last autumn’s fixtures.

Not that he’s unfamiliar with pressure. As the youngest captain in the