“The only and most important thing is that everything and everyone will support the players and the new technical staff to find our way to the top together,” Gudde said at the time. FC Groningen then promptly set up a series of 22 league matches in which they lost only once, resulting in the current battle for direct promotion. The Groningen team also reached the semi-finals of the cup tournament, in which Feyenoord was too strong at home (2-1).
