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FC Dordrecht recently secured a ticket for the playoffs by winning the third period. Go Ahead Eagles is looking for a similar performance and will have to win on Friday to keep the last chance alive.
FC Dordrecht:
A predictor who claimed during the winter break that FC Dordrecht would still take a period title was probably declared crazy. The team of coach GĂ©rard de Nooijer tossed in December to the end of 2017 and did so by losing five games in a row and collecting no less than nineteen goals. Three months later the world looks a lot rosier for the Sheep heads. De Nooijer got his team to play football again, but that was not all. The South Hollanders took the third period and climbed to the eighth position of the rankings, perhaps one of the biggest surprises of the season. As a result, the year for FC Dordrecht has actually been successful and there is no longer any pressure during the last weeks of the regular season.
That the pressure after obtaining the period title of the boiler was already clear last week in the away match against FC Den Bosch. Earlier that week, De Nooijer’s formation had caught the period title by defeating RKC Waalwijk by 1-0, but FC Den Bosch did not manage FC Dordrecht to show the desired potential. De Brabanders scored in front of the crowd and the visitors simply did not have an answer to the offensive game of the team of coach Wil Boessen. This resulted in a heavy 4-1 defeat, but the question is how hard this FC Dordrecht touched. Fact is that FC Dordrecht will have to rediscover the shape by the end of the season if the playoffs are on the program.
The good performances of FC Dordrecht have not gone unnoticed and that has as a consequence that De Nooijer has to manage this week without his captain. Gustavo Hamer is in fact called up for the National Under 20 and because of that he has to hit the meeting with the Eagles. By the way, De Nooijer will not be able to coach his team during the match. The coach has been suspended for a game due to comments on the lead.
Go Ahead Eagles:
Whoever saw FC Dordrecht win a period title was declared crazy by a large part of the followers of the Jupiler League, but that probably also applies to the people who put Go Ahead Eagles in the eighteenth position after thirty matches. The selection of the Eagles has the necessary Eredivisie experience and players who would not be out of place in clubs from the top five, but in one way or another the potential almost never comes out. Trainer Jan van Staa, who took over the helm from Leon Vlemmings during the season, has performed better in recent weeks with the formation from Deventer, but the results are not really good yet. Go Ahead Eagles is, as mentioned, in the eighteenth place and therefore the fourth period offers the last possibility to still get a ticket for the playoffs.
Last week the first race of the last period was on the program and that was certainly not an easy showdown for the Eagles. The Van Staa men played at home, but then against number four Telstar. Yet the hosts managed to prevent a defeat. Givan Werkhoven quickly set Go Ahead Eagles a 1-0 lead, but later it was Andrija Novakovich who restored the balance on the scoreboard with the last goal of the game. The 1-1 draw is a good result given the ranking, but also a result that Go Ahead Eagles does not really benefit.
Van Staa currently has access to a large group of players and because of this he will have to make difficult choices this week. Players such as Stefano Beltrame and Pieter Langedijk are normally core employees, but they ended up on the bench last week, partly due to fierce competition. It is striking that newcomer Jeff Stans almost immediately succeeded in conquering a starting place. The midfielder is expected again this week.
Dordrecht vs G.A. Eagles head to head matches
17.11.17 EER G.A. Eagles Dordrecht 0 : 3
14.03.16 EER Dordrecht G.A. Eagles 1 : 1
06.11.15 EER G.A. Eagles Dordrecht 3 : 0
27.02.15 ERE Dordrecht G.A. Eagles 2 : 1
23.08.14 ERE G.A. Eagles Dordrecht 0 : 0