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NEC Nijmegen is the track lately a bit quite. The Nijmegen team lost three of the last four matches and were actually fortunate that Fortuna Sittard also performed moderately. The champion candidate will have to win Jong PSV on Thursday-evening to restore confidence.
Nijmegen :
NEC Nijmegen is number one in the Jupiler League this season, but it has now become clear that conquering the championship will not be an easy mission. The start of the season was excellent, but the form has not been too impressive in recent months. This has resulted in NEC losing here and there some points and a free fall later on. The team of trainer Pepijn Lijnders lost three of the last four games and that gave Jong Ajax the chance to take over the lead. NEC is actually lucky on two fronts. Young Ajax is not allowed to promote to the Eredivisie and competitor Fortuna Sittard also performs very poorly. The gap with the Limburgers is two points and NEC will now be motivated to increase that gap.
A tight 1-0 win in the Goffert against FC Den Bosch seemed to have regained confidence recently, but last week it went wrong again in the away match against FC Emmen. The hosts quickly came on an 1-0 lead through a goal from Alexander Bannink and the tough team of trainer Dick Luckkien then succeeded in successfully defending that margin of a goal. It was the fifth loss of the season for NEC.
The formation of Lijnders now hopes to hit back in the game against Jong PSV, but that is anything but an easy task. Nevertheless, due to the lack of form, no surprising arrangement is expected. The defense will also contain a new face since Wojciech Golla will not appear at the kickoff. The Polish defender collected his fifth yellow card of the season in Emmen, which put him on an automatic suspension of a game. Youngster Frank Sturing will probably replace him.
Jong PSV :
Young PSV turned eight of the last eleven games into a win and with that, the second team of the Eindhoven team is performing excellent. At home, champion candidate Fortuna Sittard was lost and Helmond Sport also managed to get the team of coach Dennis Haar on the knees. The latter was not really surprising. Nearly all talented youngsters were taking part in a training camp to the United States with the selection of Phillip Cocu, which meant that she had to improvise a lot to get a solid team. With the current form it is good. Young PSV won the last three games of De Graafschap, FC Eindhoven and MVV Maastricht and that has ensured that the Brabanders are in fourth place, only four points behind number three Fortuna Sittard.
Last Monday, Jong PSV crossed the swords with MVV on their own Herdgang. Her this time had a strong selection that included Eloy Room, Armando Obispo, Donyell Malen and Sam Lammers, but that did not immediately result in an impressive performance by the hosts. The Eindhoven team did manage to take the three points again. Laros Duarte opened the score in the 43rd minute and that was also the last goal of the match.
The question now is with which selection Her will travel to the Goffert. The first team comes into action three times this week and that could ensure that Cocu wants to have a large group of players at its disposal. Last Monday that was not the case as said, but that would be completely different on Thursday evening. Her is now used to having to make changes every week and that has not really affected performance.
Nijmegen vs Jong PSV head to head matches
25.09.17 EER Jong PSV Nijmegen 3 : 3
09.02.15 EER Nijmegen Jong PSV 5 : 2
26.08.14 EER Jong PSV Nijmegen 1 : 0