Feyenoord emerged unscathed from the battle against Fortuna Sittard. In addition, the Rotterdam team will see Justin Bijlow and Gernot Trauner return to the match selection. Trainer Arne Slot therefore has sufficient options for next Sunday’s cup final against NEC Nijmegen in De Kuip.
However, it is expected that Feyenoord will not make any adjustments to the line-up. ”Why would Feyenoord make a tactical change? Beelen has made his mark and will remain in the starting line-up,” says journalist Dennis van Eersel. ”With a view to the European Championship, Trauner will really get his minutes, just like Timber last year towards the European Championship with the Dutch Juniors. Now in this match I would be surprised if Feyenoord did not start with the same starting line-up.”
Feyenoord must hold on to Beelen for the next five matches
This also means that Geertruida will play as a left back again. “That’s good,” says journalist Mikos Gouka in FC Rijnmond. ”It is a choice between taking Hancko from the center, but then you miss his heading power and Slot likes to have a left foot in the center. This in itself is a good solution. Geertruida easily holds his own, even though he is right-footed.” Harry van der Laan adds. “You can place Geertruida anywhere, he is really a player who can join any top club in the world. Then I’m talking about behind the ball of course, you can’t put him on the left winger. He can play anywhere behind the ball. He really is an incredibly good player.”
No training camp
Feyenoord will not organize a mini-training camp or make any other changes to the preparation in the run-up to the cup final, journalist Mikos Gouka said. ”Nothing special, four training sessions and that’s it. In the past they have sometimes gone abroad for the Conference League final, for example. They don’t do anything special and want to stick to the familiar. Four training sessions are often enough for Slot to really get a hold of an opponent. Of course they know NEC, they know what to do. So they’re not going to do anything crazy.”
2024-04-16 10:20:10
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