Young Ajax with scoring Francisco Conceição past MVV, painful loss for NAC in Galgenwaard | Dutch football

As strong as MVV started the season, the results of the team from Maastricht are so disappointing in the new year. Maurice Verberne’s team dropped from the top 3 to seventh place and must regroup to keep the promotion dream alive in the coming weeks.

On a visit to Jong Ajax tonight, which has not yet won this calendar year, MVV got off to a poor start. After 5 minutes, Kian Fitz-Jim had already headed the home team ahead. A few minutes later, Francisco Conceição doubled the lead. The Portuguese last played with Jong Ajax in October and has since been on the field in the premier league every week with the main force of the team from Amsterdam. The fast right winger has to do that at the moment Mohammed Kudus in top form to tolerate.

MVV then revived and came back into the game before the break via Sven Blummel. The Limburgers then kept the upper hand, but saw Young Ajax debutant Mika Godts make the 3-1 at the start of the second half. Despite a rain of opportunities for MVV in the remainder of the match, the team from Limburg only scored one more goal via Jarne Steuckers. In the final phase, Jaydon Bane signed a counter for the final score: 4-2. Due to the loss, MVV is now last in the third period (4 points in the last 6 games).

NAC did a lot better in the third period. At the start of the round, Peter Hyballa’s team was only one place behind the leader of the last 6 games: ADO Den Haag. But the team from Brabant let that difference grow to four points on a visit to last-place Jong FC Utrecht tonight.

For a moment it seemed to be an easy evening in the almost empty Galgenwaard Stadium, when Tijs Velthuis headed NAC ahead after 4 minutes. But thanks to a nice swipe from Derensili Sanches Fernandes and a goal from Yannick Leliendal, it was suddenly 2-1 for Jong Utrecht at halftime.

In the second half, things went from bad to worse for the team from Breda. Shortly after each other, striker Anthony Descotte made it 3-1 and Fernandes made it 4-1 with his second of the evening. Because of the loss, winning the third period will be a big challenge for Hyballa’s men, while it also looks sad in the rankings: an 11th place with 8 points behind the places that give a ticket for the play-offs .