The report

Today, under cold conditions, the first home game in the championship pool was scheduled. The regional chiefs had not yet been called together to inspect the ice, because you could sink through just like that. But today we sank through the bottom line. We started well and in the first ten to fifteen minutes the question is when we would score, but it all went differently. There was no chemistry between the players like there was last week. And since we didn't score in the first fifteen minutes, the golden rule in football is that it did fall on the other side. It was actually striking that we had to wait until the 66th minute for Groningen's first shot on goal. And this shot after one of the sparsely executed attacks immediately meant the 0-3.

So we didn't really have any chances, but we were well behind after an hour. The important thing now is to operate as a team in order to win the games. Wednesday we can recover in the cup game at our own Herdgang stadium against Excelsior. Then we have to be there and we are bound to reach the next round.

Men, come on. We are picking up where we left off and Wednesday is a new beginning that will lead to something beautiful after all.

Setup:
Van Lare, Arts, Lonwijk (62/Seelt), Matuta, Landfeld, de Schutter, Huijzer (62/Beumer), Jimenez, Daniëls, Hopman (41/Matoug), Antonissen (71/Bougafer).