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The season in the Kitchen Champion Division is now over, but for some teams the most important duels of the season are only just starting. NEC will have to face RKC Waalwijk in the first match. This home game is played in De Goffert, because the highest ranked team plays first. Led by Christiaan Bax and (yes indeed) the VAR, the teams will fight out who will compete against the number 16 in the Eredivisie.
NEC Nijmegen:
It was a season with peaks and troughs for the people of Nijmegen. Jack de Gier’s team played in the top of the Kitchen Champion Division at the start of the season, but after a weak series it dropped to fifteenth place. De Gier seemed to get his team back on track, but then he started the last period dramatically. The loss in the away match against Sparta was not a disaster, but losing at home to Young Ajax raised more questions. When NEC was also humiliated 4-0 by Jong AZ, the head coach and his assistant were put on hold.
It was up to Ron de Groot to save his club from the crisis for the fifth (!) Time. Bikkel had six more games to change course. That succeeded, because after victories against Young PSV, Helmond Sport, FC Volendam, champion FC Twente and precisely RKC Waalwijk, NEC is now in the play-offs. An incredible final sprint and thanks to a lot of goals from league-leader Ferdy Druijf and teammate Jonathan Okita, the club still has a chance of promotion.
RKC Waalwijk:
RKC Waalwijk also did not win structurally last season, but is now in the play-offs. Both inside and outside Waalwijk there is actually nobody who thought that was possible. The season before that, RKC Waalwijk finished in eighteenth place. Around the holidays, the people from Brabant were in sixteenth place and it seemed that the season would start again. From that moment the club turned into a true fighting machine. 21 points were taken in 8 games, which brought RKC Waalwijk to the seventh place.
After this crazy series, the results were slightly less, but many points were still taken. RKC Waalwijk showed that they could not only achieve results against small clubs. FC Twente and Go Ahead Eagles, for example, were beaten with big numbers. The team seems to have the perfect mix between young talent and experience. Emil Hansson and Dylan Seys are the tastemakers and together scored 25 goals, while the team with Paul Quasten, Henrico Drost and Hans Mulder have experienced players in the selection. Not only the Kitchen Champion Division ended successfully, but also reaching the TOTO KNVB Cup and eliminating NAC Breda and champion PSV is something to be proud of.
Nijmegen vs Waalwijk head to head matches
22.04.19 EER Nijmegen Waalwijk 2 : 1
23.11.18 EER Waalwijk Nijmegen 1 : 0
27.07.18 CF Nijmegen Waalwijk 2 : 1
02.03.18 EER Waalwijk Nijmegen 0 : 2
13.10.17 EER Nijmegen Waalwijk 2 : 0