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NEC Nijmegen seems to be on the way again. The champion candidate turned the last three games into profit and that resulted in the first place. The Gelderlanders will visit SC Cambuur on Friday evening.
SC Cambuur:
SC Cambuur is still in the race to secure a ticket for the playoffs, this mission will certainly not be easy. The Frisians have performed slightly better in recent months than at the beginning of the season, but that alone is not enough to close the gap with the top eight clubs. The team of coach René Hake has recently become a typical middle-driver and that shows the status of the period won by FC Dordrecht. The formation of Hake won three times, played three times and pulled three times the shortest. In order to take that last step towards the upper regions of the ranking, the Frisians will therefore have to make progress. Of the last six matches in the Jupiler League, SC Cambuur won only one and therefore there is work to be done for Cambuur.
Last Monday, Cambuur shared the points with Young PSV in Eindhoven, which was certainly not the wrong result. Dennis Haar, the coach of Jong PSV, had top talent such as Sam Lammers, Mauro Junior, Albert Gudmundsson, Armando Obispo and Cody Gakpo. With that, Jong PSV was the favorite to win the game, but it did not come that far. The hosts still took a 1-0 lead through a goal by Gakpo in the 29th minute, but five minutes later it was Ricardo Kip’s turn to make the net vibrate. The equalizer also turned out to be the last goal of the match. With the draw, Cambuur does not score very well, but this was more than a good result.
Hake will have to form his team this week without Matthew Steenvoorden and that could just happen more often. The central defender faced Jong PSV against his eleventh yellow card of the season and that was put on a match suspension. Every yellow card that the defender collects from now results in the exclusion of a game. His absence offers Martijn van der Laan the opportunity to show his qualities.
NEC Nijmegen:
NEC is still the number one champion in the Jupiler League, but the last few months have shown that the team of coach Pepijn Lijnders will have to fight for the title. The current front runner got to deal with a lack of form and that resulted in a series of matches in which the points were not always caught. Of the last ten matches NEC won only five, but it must be mentioned that the last three games were all won. Lijnders has got his team back to football and that is to see the numbers. From the last three matches, NEC got nine points as mentioned and in addition, the three opponents failed to score. This series of victories has undoubtedly created new confidence and NEC is now looking for a way to widen the gap with teams like Fortuna Sittard and Telstar.
Last week NEC crossed the swords with FC Volendam and Jong FC Utrecht in a period of four days. In the own Goffert was fairly simple with the other Oranje settled. Goals by Arnaut Groeneveld, Calvin Verdonk and Guus Joppen had already led to a 3-0 lead for the sixtieth minute and FC Volendam later failed to put NEC under pressure. In the away match against Young FC Utrecht, the team from Lijnders again managed to decide the game for the hour. Ferdi Kadioglu and Verdonk were the goal scorers this time and their goals ensured that NEC could record the eighteenth victory of the season.
Lijnders will not mix up his team for this match. In the front the rinse is a little thin due to the minor injuries of Mohamed Rayhi and Sven Braken, but the selection of the Nijmegen club is big enough to absorb this. Anass Achahbar is expected again at the point of attack and he will be assisted by Steeven Langil and Groeneveld on the wings.
Cambuur vs Nijmegen head to head matches
03.11.17 EER Nijmegen Cambuur 3 : 1
17.04.16 ERE Nijmegen Cambuur 2 : 1
12.12.15 ERE Cambuur Nijmegen 3 : 1
05.04.14 ERE Nijmegen Cambuur 1 : 1
23.11.13 ERE Cambuur Nijmegen 2 : 1