Twente away is always difficult. Also today under these conditions, cold, wet and a not too good field. Today we do need to take points to not lose connection with the top four. However, it is difficult today. Not all agreements are being executed. Again we are too often at the back and give Twente hope. After just over half an hour it was Martijn who started a solo effort on the right and finished it competently. 0-1. Now to push on. But that did not happen. Two minutes before half time a long ball to Maarten, who takes the ball well and goes into the sixteen and the goalkeeper comes out and .... whistle. Penalty. Goalkeeper red. After changing the goalkeeper it is Sam himself who drives the ball hard against the ropes. 0-2 and half time. So now we have to keep going after halftime. But after the break there is certainly not the calm in our team. We help Twente in the saddle. With one man less they manage to pin us down several times and they even get chances. In one of these counter attacks by Twente, Maarten manages to stop the ball and the opponent but the attacker doesn't really agree and makes a punching move and kicks at Maarten. The ref stands three meters away. A whistle and .... red. Against nine opponents it has to work. Within ten minutes, Twente manages to score from a free kick and they even get the chance to equalize and maybe even take the lead. Too many things go wrong. So this week there is still plenty of work to do for the trainers. After some substitutions we try to increase the margin but sometimes ego is a bit bigger than team interests. Just before the end of the match, a corner by Ramon brought the ball to Maarten, who needed a simple foot movement to score number three. Against nine opponents we succeeded. Now a week of rest and in fourteen days the next opponent in Eindhoven will be... Yes, Fc Twente.
Have a nice weekend and see you in two weeks.


van Osch, Abels, Lamers, Peijnenburg, Groenendijk, Weymans, Berden, Lammers, Cmiljanic (63rd van der Moot), Lundqvist (88th Naciri), Groeneveld (63rd Hiwat)