Kitchen Champion DivisionADO Den Haag suffered a large defeat in its first game after the dismissal of trainer Ruud Brood. Under the leadership of interim coach Giovanni Franken, the number six of the Kitchen Champion Division had little to contribute against Jong Ajax: 6-3.
The Amsterdam promise team, with players such as Mohamed Daramy, Mohammed Kudus and Danilo in the base, was a size too big for ADO. After Kudus’s 1-0 via ex-Ajacied Ricardo Kishna, the home team still managed to score 1-1, but then the home team ran out to 4-1 through hits from Danilo, again Kudus and Naci Ünüvar.
Thanks to goals from Thomas Verheydt and Sem Steijn, ADO seemed completely back in the game at the start of the second half. However, the joy of The Hague was short-lived. A few minutes after Steijn’s 4-3, Kudus made his third of the evening, after which Ünüvar converted another penalty.
FC Emmen
FC Emmen did good business in the battle for direct promotion. The number two won 1-3 at Jong PSV. The Eindhoven team came through Simon Colyn at 1-0. An own goal by Fedde Leysen brought the score back into balance before half time. In the second half, the team of trainer Dick Lukkien put things in order by hits from Ole Romey and Rui Mendes.
Emmen is second with 58 points from 28 games, 5 points behind leader Volendam. Jong Ajax is now fifth with 52 out of 29, ADO sixth with 50 out of 28.
Almere City won 1-2 at Jong FC Utrecht thanks to a late goal by Maarten Pouwels. Alex Pastoor’s team thus climbed to seventeenth place. Telstar dropped to fourteenth place due to a 3-2 defeat at Jong AZ, which is now thirteenth. Zico Buurmeester scored twice on behalf of the Alkmaarders.
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