Peter Maes was very popular with the supporters of Willem II last season when he became champion with the club. In the Eredivisie, the club must now fear relegation and the Belgian coach is under pressure. “I am responsible for what is happening on the field and have to make an analysis. Other people within the club have to make an analysis whether I am an added value as a coach.”
The 60-year-old Belgian was clear on Saturday evening after the end of the 0-2 lost duel with Almere City FC. He still believes that he is the right man to finish the season with Willem II. “I don’t even have to think about it, I want to go one hundred percent for it. I have not lost the group yet. The players want and have a lot of energy.”
Relegation candidate
With seven games to go, Willem II has to look down, since the gap with number seventeen Almere City FC is only six points. “The last games of this season we have to use all the resources not to relegate. One thing must be central and that is Willem II. We know the kitchen champion division and have had a good period there, but the Eredivisie is ten times more beautiful. We don’t have to sit down, there is trust.”
Despite the defeat against the relegation candidate from Almere, Maes is not only negative. “In the new year we only took two points and I thought somewhere that the soil had been reached. But then you see today that we play one of the best first halves of the season, but not reward ourselves. The positive elements, such as the good game, we have to take with us, every game has a different story.”
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Afterwards, the Belgian was angry with his striker Kyan Vaesen, who had to leave the field with red after more than half an hour. “Making such a violation on that part of the field is very stupid. I understand that boys in the perilnious Hitting, but no longer thinking is absolutely not. “
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