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2018 started badly for Feyenoord. The Rotterdammers left five points and will now have to hit back to restore confidence. The showdown in the in-house Kuip with ADO Den Haag seems at first glance to be ideal for profit.
Feyenoord :
Champion Feyenoord had imagined something else from the first half of the season. The long awaited title broke a lot in Rotterdam, but immediately after the summer it became clear that a second championship was too high for the men of trainer Giovanni van Bronckhorst. Feyenoord went down unmoved in the Champions League and almost immediately faced a gap with teams like PSV, Ajax and AZ, a gap that kept increasing. The gap with PSV has now risen to sixteen points and Feyenoord will really have to take care of the turnaround in order to still have a chance at a place with the best three. That gap is now also six points.
2018 has so far not brought what the supporters had hoped for. Feyenoord started the new year with the Classic against Ajax in Amsterdam and in that match the Rotterdammers again failed to take the points. Ajax made two quick goals after halftime and with that the match was decided.
Midweeks also got Feyenoord the chance to restore confidence, but again fate struck. The start in the game against FC Utrecht offered some perspective when Sam Larsson quickly opened the score on the tuber field, but later the hosts managed to avoid the loss: 1-1. Feyenoord therefore has trouble winning matches and that also shows the statistics. Only nine of the nineteen games played were won.
The match against ADO Den Haag is now one that simply has to be won. Positive news for the Rotterdammers is the return of Nicolai Jorgensen. The Danish striker was suspended for the midweek duel with FC Utrecht, but he is back on Sunday. Robin van Persie, who already made his first minutes in Utrecht, is expected again on the bench. Furthermore, Van Bronckhorst will have to cut through a few knots again. Ridgeciano Haps and Eric Botteghin are fit again, but the coach seems to prefer Tyrell Malacia and Renato Tapia again. Jens Toornstra and Sofyan Amrabat compete for the last place in the midfield.
Den Haag:
ADO Den Haag ended last season in the Eredivisie as eleventh and that was a good result given the possibilities, the budget and the qualities within the selection. With Alfons Groenendijk at the helm it has become clear that ADO Den Haag can go back upstairs rather than down after more than half of the competition and that is good news for the supporters. The formation of Groenendijk has reached the eighth place and only lost one of the last five matches. In short, the shape is good.
The start of 2018 was pretty solid and could even have been perfect. In the first showdown of the new year with VVV-Venlo ADO Den Haag seemed to be heading for a narrow victory, but by the end of the game it went wrong. Bjorn Johnsen had put the home team ahead with his eighth goal of the season, but ADO Den Haag did not succeed in winning the three points. De Hagenezen lost control of the game and that VVV-Venlo offered the chance to produce the equalizer with four minutes to play. A crucial rescue by Robert Zwinkels had to come in later to avoid a loss.
To beat Feyenoord with a victory would be nice, of course, but that is easier said than done. The last four mutual confrontations all ended in a loss for ADO Den Haag. Positive news is that Groenendijk has a strong selection. Wilfried Kanon is still on the sidelines because of his injury and that will probably result in a starting place for Shaquille Pinas. The youth made his basic debut last week. Tyronne Ebuehi, who has been linked for weeks to a switch to Benfica, is still ‘normal’ in The Hague and so he will start.
Feyenoord vs Den Haag head to head matches
05.11.17 ERE Den Haag Feyenoord 2 : 2
20.09.17 KNV Feyenoord Den Haag 2 : 0
19.02.17 ERE Den Haag Feyenoord 0 : 1
14.12.16 KNV Feyenoord Den Haag 5 : 1
11.09.16 ERE Feyenoord Den Haag 3 : 1