NEC won with difficulty 3-2. “I was feeling good,” said the 36-year-old former goalkeeper of the Dutch team after the match. ESPN. “I have shown that I am still here.”
Rijnsburgse Boys falls just short of a historic cup comeback against NEC thanks to Jasper Cillessen
Cillessen was on target for the first time since his return to Nijmegen. That was almost seven months after he suffered a perforated intestine in a collision with an opponent as a goalkeeper for the Spanish Las Palmas. “It took some getting used to. It was a tough field, but a nice cup evening. I was in good shape. You know in advance that it will not be easy and that turned out to be the case. In the second half we played naively and easily gave away the opportunities. Towards the end it was really a storm on goal, fortunately the ball did not fall well for Rijnsburg.”
Ambitious Jasper Cillessen
The goalkeeper is still ambitious. “But it is up to the trainer to decide whether I will keep goal again in the next match. I have patience, I am a bit older. It was nice to get some rhythm.”