“It wasn’t good enough today,” says Henk Veerman honestly afterwards. The striker was not pleased with the first half in front of the ESPN camera. “Appointments were not fulfilled, but I keep it inside rooms what went wrong. In the second half it went a bit better. They won well.”

Just before time, the Volendam attack leader had two considerable opportunities. “Then you have to be a little bit of luck, just not good enough.”

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