Feyenoord have closed the gap on fourth placed Vitesse after a 2-1 victory over Utrecht
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Dick Advocaat decided to line up with a five man defence for the visit to Utrecht with Bryan Linssen and Steven Berghuis starting up front.
The hosts were the better side from the start and in the 13th minute, Utrecht had the lead with Leroy Fer netting an own goal from a corner. Gyrano Kerk then missed a good opportunity to double the lead shortly afterwards as Utrecht remained in control.
Advocaat abandoned the five man defence after 20 minutes and the return to a 4-3-3 saw Feyenoord equalise in the 27th minute. Simon Gustafson netted the second own goal of the game from a Steven Berghuis corner.
Before the break, Utrecht had chances to regain their lead but Gustafson and Sander van de Streek could not find a way past Justin Bijlow.
At half-time, Advocaat brought on Luis Sinisterra and the Colombian crossed for Berghuis to fire Feyenoord in front on 57 minutes.
That goal proved to be the winner despite plenty of chances for the hosts. In the last minutes, Feyenoord lost Bijlow after a nasty clash with Kerk.
Feyenoord remains fifth after the win but they are now only two points off Vitesse while Utrecht are 7th.
Hello everyone!
Feyenoord played enough to win, in very low intensity along the 90 min, but Berghuis a player very motivated by the positive games that made with Holland, was the best in the field.
Playing with tree center back, was surprising to see Botteghin in the middle, when he does not have the skill to penetrate to the middle and start the construction or the quality passing to launch the attack.
In this way, was more Toornstra with that roll of picking the ball, Fer with more skill to pick the ball, simply sometimes he vanishes from the game, has to have more intensity on every action that he really does.
Diemers is a hybrid player with Dick Advocaat, he really has something, quality with the ball, skill pass and plays always with the head lifted (i like very much of that), but gives the impression that there is no strategy who’s picking the game, and organize, and Diemers most of the time is very sacrificed when Feynoord does not have the ball, 1.5 tackles per game, just behind of the defenders; Senesi, Geertruida and Nieuwkoop, that is the one that have more with 2.7 and very much less games than the companions.
Berghuis is still very locked down in the left wing, when its on the middle that he makes the difference, like in this game, long pass, short pass, temporized the game, are all skills from the 10 of Feyenoord and more, makes goals.
It’s going to be very interesting to see the fight to the fourth place.
Congratulations also for the website and keep up the good work 🙂