Welcome to our live blog. We will keep you informed of the Eredivisie competitions Heracles Almelo – AZ and Telstar – Fortuna Sittard. Furthermore, attention to the World Cup athletics. We collect this and the other most important regional sports news here for you. Tips or questions? Mail to [email protected]
2.30 pm: Heracles Almelo AZ 1-1
3.45 pm: Telstar – Fortuna Sittard
Jordy Clasie with a slipper and Bryan Limbombe with a shot that is being crashed by AZ keeper Jayden Owusu-Oduro.
Heracles kicked off for the second half and therefore has the ball.
A first half with two faces. AZ takes the lead early. Halfway through the first half Heracles comes to the same level and the Alkmaarders are under pressure.
With a 1-1 stand, both teams look for the changing rooms.
Clasie with a nice pegg that is blocked in the sixteen in the goal mouth by a Heracles defender. Then it is Mijnans with a shot, but his shot is cracked.
Jordy Clasie sends Mexx Meerdink away. One -on -one renounces Meerdink who shoots next to.
Borges Sanchez with a wonderful bang that comes on the bar of the AZ goal.
Then it is Owusu-Oduro with a handsome rescue.
AZ is under quite pressure.
Mijnans shoots up close to the Heracles goalkeeper. AZ was close to a goal.
Heracles captain Damon Mirani nods inside. The AZ defense is sleeping there.
Just before that, the AZ keeper Owusu-Oduro with a beautiful rescue on a free kick by Heracles.
The home team shows little. There is no danger from a corner of the Heracmen.
The game is stopped because cups are thrown on the field from a Heracles compartment. Moments later the game is resumed.
Sven Mijnans with a shot from outside the sixteen. His commitment is not processed properly and it is Alexandre Pentra with the entry. It is the first Eredivisie goal in the Portuguese in the service of AZ.
Moments later, the goal scorer takes a yellow card.
First chance of the competition. Mexx Meerdink heads at the first post. His bet is diagonally a meter about the goal of Heracles.
There was kicked off in Almelo.
Elvis Afifa from Amsterdam did not succeed at the World Cup athletics in Tokyo to reach the final of the 100 meters, the king’s number. The 27-year-old sprinter ended in his heat of the semi-finals in seventh in 10.20 and that meant elimination.
Afifa ran, among others, against title defender Noah Lyles. The American won the heat in 9.92. The final will be Sunday later.
The World Cup is not over yet. It still ends up on the relay 4×100 meters.
“We think we are good with Weslley Patati and in the small space and being able to continue playing with the lace changes. He has shown good things. We have had him here for two weeks, because he is not an international. That’s why he is going on it,” said AZ coach Maarten Martens about the Basic Place of Weslley Patati. That is at the expense of Ibrahim Sadiq.
AZ is supported in Almelo by the maximum number of five hundred supporters. Last season Heracles was the last hurdle that AZ took towards the cup final. The team of trainer Maarten Martens played 2-2 in the semi-final and needed a penalty kick series to qualify for the final battle against Go Ahead Eagles. In the competition, AZ lost 1-0 in Almelo.