The wonderful night is yet to come but the first objective has been achieved well in advance. Placement for the championship round.
Heerenveen have already been eliminated for this but are always tough to fight. The first half shows no sign of any good intentions. A match in the fifth division of amateur football provides more excitement and fun than this afternoon on the Herdgang. Sad weather and the game is even deeply sad. Analysts will probably say that the heads are already in the direction of CSKA Moskow. Well I hope not because I expect a different attitude there. Because we would like to win the Champions League for the youth. But anyway. A thunderous speech from our new (for today) coach Mark, (also congratulations for the result on your course) we go into the second half. Heerenveen also sticks to the same fighting style as before halftime. They are not placed and now you can see why. Still, about ten minutes before the end of the game we manage to score the first goal after a nice personal action by Dante. Heerenveen just keeps lurking for that one mistake to try to snatch away a point.
We want to stop this and look for the liberating goal and in the last minute it is Matthias who appreciates a good cross from Arnaut and shoots the ball in.
The points stay here. After the winter break we are in the champions league and as it stands we don't have to go to Heerenveen, Twente and Zwolle. Saves some bus hours.
Now on to Moskow and also there only the three points count to continue.
Good luck Tuesday.
Goodbye.

van Osch, Abels, Peijnenburg, Carolina, Bannani, Rigo, Berden (67th Groeneveld), Duarte, Lammers (82nd vd Moot), Gudmundsson (88th Daneels), Verreth.