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The cup final between AZ and Vitesse is a match between two subtoppers from the Eredivisie. The Alkmaarders knew four years ago to win the Danube apple and Vitesse never won the cup in her 124-year history. Does old vitesse teacher John van den Brom win his first prize in the Netherlands? Or does Vitesse know for the first time since 1892 to get a top prize?
AZ Alkmaar :
At AZ, they have a lot more experience with these kinds of games than they have at Vitesse. The Alkmaarders won the KNVB Cup last year and John van den Brom’s team was also active in the Europa League this season, in which the Alkmaarders played an important duel against Russian Zenit St. Petersburg in the winter Place in the knockout phase safely. Then John van den Brom’s team lost over two matches with Olympique Lyon 11-2, but Alkmaarders have gained enough experience in crucial competitions this season. Van den Brom thinks that such experiences, combined with the experienced players, can sometimes make the breakthrough today: “I hope our experience will lead to boys like Ron Vlaar and Tim Krul in the selection. In addition, we also played an all-or-nothing match against Zenit earlier this season. We then showed that we can handle this well. ”
Last weekend, Van den Brom saw his team win 2-1 from FC Twente. The Tukkers arrived in the AFAS Stadium for a goal by Joachim Andersen, but in the last nine minutes of the match, Alkmaarders left the backlog in a victory. FC Twente defender Peet Bijen made the equalizer and ultimately, Fredaller struck in the final stage of the duel for the winning goal. The Alkmaarders knew only two of their last twelve matches within the regular playtime for the match against FC Twente and Van den Brom was pleased with the victory at FC Twente. “I’m glad we win because we’ve matched or lost this kind of duels very often, but now we’ve been able to turn it around,” said the AZ coach who still sees some improvement points at AZ. “I think the slurries should be. We must be able to find each other easier. ”
As with Vitesse, AZ can of course also make two European football pitches. Van den Brom has repeatedly stated that only the cup finale is important for the Alkmaarders and that was also shown in the results of the last matches. The Alkmaarers have at the moment in the league ahead of Vitesse and did not win the Arnhemmers this season, yet Van den Brom thinks that his team is no less than Henk Fraser’s team. “I think Vitesse and AZ do not qualify each other qualitatively,” said the AZ coach this week, who realized that despite the criticisms, Alkmaarders could still make a successful season. “We are in the league at a play-off place, have won Europe and have also achieved the cup finals. Now it’s a matter of doing well. If we win the cup, we’ll all have a wonderful summer here at AZ. ”
Probable setup AZ Alkmaar
Curl; Svensson, van Eijden, Vlaar, Haps; Luckassen, van Overeem, Wuytens; Jahanbakhsh, Weghorst, dos Santos.
Vitesse :
Where they have enough experience with playing important competitions at AZ, Vitesse is different. The Arnhemmers played three cup finals but they lost all three and the last lost final dates back to 1990 when PSV was 1-0 too strong and John van den Brom started at the Arnhemmers. At AZ they managed to reach the final with the necessary artwork and flying work, but at Vitesse they had a lot easier for the moment. The Arnhemmers did not score a team from the Eredivisie in the first three rounds and only got into the quarterfinal real opposition from Feyenoord. The Arnhemmers won perfectly with 2-0 of the Rotterdammers and in the semifinal won Henk Fraser’s team with 1-2 visits to Sparta – Lewis Baker was the celebrated man with two hits.
Last week the Arnhemmers took home again against Feyenoord, but this time it was a competition in the league. In the Gelredome, Vitesse had to recuperate for the 1-0 defeat that the Arnhemmers made a visit to Excelsior a week earlier, but Vitesse did not succeed against the headliner. Vitesse lacked the real will to win and the Arnhemmers were pleased that Feyenoord won only 0-2 in Arnhem. In a Gelredome full of Feyenoord fans, Vitesse thus experienced a bad general rehearsal, and after the match, Fraser managed to explain what the problem with Arnhemmers was: “I think the players have been too busy with the cup finals. We wanted to avoid that, but that did not work. ”
A number of players will of course leave Arnhem in a few weeks and Lewis Baker is one of those players. Baker is this season’s top scorer in the KNVB Cup with five hits, but returns to Chelsea this summer. The 21-year-old Baker can finish his time at Vitesse with a cup win and looked forward to AZ. “Everyone in the group knows how important this match is. For the club. For the city. But it is also a big prize for us all. We can distinguish ourselves as a team, “said the Englishman this week. Where many clubs get the craziest capriuls taken by the trainers in the run-up to major matches, Fraser said this week that he just keeps doing normal. ‘We keep our solid patterns. Making everything excessive, just increasing stress, “Fraser said this week, who has already experienced something in his career, yet looking forward to the atmosphere of this cup finale. “It’s a game that is already special enough by the entourage. By the supporters. It’s in The Kuip. It’s going to be a crazy house. ”
Probable setup Vitesse
Cream; Leerdam, Kashia, Miazga, Kruiswijk; Nakamba, Nathan, Baker; Rashica, from Wolfswinkel, Foor.
AZ Alkmaar vs Vitesse head to head
29.01.17 ERE Vitesse AZ Alkmaar 2 : 1
15.10.16 ERE AZ Alkmaar Vitesse 2 : 2
06.02.16 ERE AZ Alkmaar Vitesse 1 : 0
08.11.15 ERE Vitesse AZ Alkmaar 0 : 2
13.03.15 ERE Vitesse AZ Alkmaar 3 : 1