Six minutes and fourteen seconds. For that, Sparta had to go to Arnhem to finish the duel with Vitesse. “You have a huge pandemonium for those six minutes,” Mossou begins. “There has been talk for days about what could happen. How to go about it, analysts in the studio. And to top it all off, you get Bas Nijhuis as referee. Brilliant move by the KNVB by the way. Then those six minutes can only be disappointing. And it did.”
Sparta held back, Vitesse did not know. ,,Letsch and Vitesse were very disappointing. If you have that time to prepare for six minutes, you expect a plan. The only plan there was was long training in advance. But you also come up with something tactically crazy. With the goalkeeper, with the players. Co Adriaanse was a master at this. At Willem II he started with defender Mark Schenning in the striker in the first fifteen minutes. Then he went back to the back, but the chaos had already been created.”
They also discuss the list of candidates at Ajax for the succession of Ten Hag. ,,Alfred Schreuder is on the list. Yes, that was also possible. I had forgotten about Schreuder at first, but he fits in the list of logical candidates. He worked there and got a lot of credit for his work as an assistant.”
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