De Jong: I am very happy to have successfully qualified for the World Cup. We must go into the competition with the idea and confidence to compete for the championship.

In the last round of World Cup qualifying early this morning, the Netherlands defeated Lithuania 4-0 at home and qualified for next summer's World Cup. Dutch midfielder De Jong was interviewed after the game.

The Netherlands qualified for the World Cup. What do you think of this result?

It's always great when this result is confirmed. Of course, with the current team we have an obligation to qualify for the World Cup. But there have been cases where we didn't qualify for the World Cup even with good players, so we have to be happy with the success.

The Netherlands' performance was mediocre in the first half, but they scored three goals in the second half.

The fans will enjoy their performance in the second half. Of course you want to score as many goals as possible and 4-0 was a good result in the end.

How will you feel about participating in next year's World Cup?

We must go into the competition with the feeling that it is possible for us (to win the championship) and believe in ourselves, and we will go all out. But we still have a lot of work to do.

Is the Netherlands the favorite to win the championship?

I don't know, it's hard to comment. There are many strong teams in the World Cup, but we also have a good team and want to win. It is meaningless and useless to say that you are the favorite to win the championship.