FOOTBALL – One kept a clean sheet for the eleventh time in a competition and the other created new impetus and threat and was close to the unjustified 0-1. Michael Brouwer and newcomer Metehan Güçlü were the two positive exceptions in Dick Lukkien’s team last night in Almere.
In the polder, the team from Drenthe did not go further than 0-0. Still against the last of the Kitchen Champion Division. Of course the home team did well. The team of trainer Alex Pastoor fought for every meter and gave Emmen absolutely no opportunity to calmly enter the game, but of course the green shirts also disappointed. It was mediocre on the ball and too many players acted below their ability.
“You can’t win once, but at least keep the zero”
“Of course it’s nice to hear afterwards that ADO Den Haag loses and we even end up with that competitor, but I’m not really concerned with that. I’m disappointed with our game. What was it about tonight? That’s hard to say. For that I just have to see the game again. I still had the hope that we could win. We have enough quality and can score from scratch, but at a certain point the realization came that at least we had the We had to keep zero. You can’t win once, but at least you can’t lose,” says Brouwer.
‘Will I be there again next week? That possibility is certainly there’
Striker Güçlü relieved Mart Lieder, about fifteen minutes before time, and almost got his dream debut. On his first contact with the ball, he almost headed the ball behind Almere goalkeeper Bakker. “It was a difficult header. I had to head while walking backwards,” said the Turkish-French player. “It’s true that I wouldn’t play yet, but it went well during the training sessions and because Reda Kharchouch had been felled by corona, the trainer asked if I was ready. Especially because Mart can’t play a whole game. How did it go? I am not dissatisfied, although it was a difficult game for us tonight. Will I be there again next week? There is certainly a possibility.”