The women of FC Twente have won the KNVB Cup for the third time in history. PSV was defeated 4-0 in The Hague. The prize is a boost for the team that recently lost the lead and thus the championship in quite a sensational way.
Party, sing and jump. That’s what Orange keeper Daphne van Domselaar and her teammates did this afternoon after the final whistle in The Hague in front of the more than 2,500 people present, holding the ‘pine cone’ that has also been awarded to women since 2018. The pain of the lost championship was exchanged for the euphoria of the KNVB Cup.
A goal difference of 81 for and 6 against and still not become champion. That happened to the women of FC Twente this season, due to a defeat at the end of the season against competitor Ajax (1-0). In that match, Twente was certainly not inferior to the team from Amsterdam, but it eventually cost them the title: Ajax became champion.
With the cup final, that pain could be somewhat brushed away. With the PSV of top talent Esmee Brugts departing after this season, FC Twente met an opponent who had nineteen points less in the competition and had been defeated twice with clear figures (3-1 and 0-3). Although PSV certainly bit off in The Hague in phases, including a shot on the crossbar that could have meant the equalizer.
The much more purified and also dominant Twente handled the opportunities more efficiently. Before the break, captain Renate Jansen hit the mark, after an assumption on her chest and a shot with the left in the far intersection. And in a phase when PSV dared to believe in an equalizer, Kim Everaerts van Twente finished it twenty minutes before the end on the other side. Just before the end, Elena Dhont also hit the mark and Bente Jansen, who had just come in, took advantage of PSV keeper Danielle de Jong’s fumbling.
Afterwards, the woman, Jansen, received the pine cone from René Roord (manager of women’s football at Twente), Jan Dirk van der Zee (director of amateur and women’s football at the KNVB) and Lucienne Reichardt (manager of women’s football at the KNVB). After beating PSV’s reserves in the semi-finals, it was now the turn of the first team. Enough for perhaps not the main prize in Dutch women’s football, but in any case medal of honor.
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