Sparta Rotterdam is a party in the winning mood. Especially in the context of this unsurpassed website. And that sounds better in a podcast studio. No guests this week, but the standard formation of Rik, Sjoerd, Troy. Slightly less hosanna mood than last week after the miraculous denouement against Feyenoord, but we won’t surpass that for a long time. Yet a 0-1 victory secretly, so sneakily, dragged away from the Galgenwaard is also wonderful.
The 0-1 and especially our goalkeeper
The match against Utrecht can actually be summarized in one word: Drommel. What an unprecedentedly good goalkeeper Sparta has. The episode briefly discusses that it might not be surprising to have our Drommel as 3e goalkeeper to go to the World Cup. Perhaps a bit premature, but name a goalkeeper who both keeps and is at least as good?
Sjoerd also discovered that Mito should have looked at Messi rather than Cristiano Ronaldo in terms of finishing: our left winger has been doing very well since his return after the injury. House analyst Rik very wisely decided that Sparta did not deserve to win and Troy came with good news!
We are going into Europe
Yes, that might be a bit shocking to have such a bold statement as a subheading. But math whiz Troy has figured out how many points the numbers 9 in the rankings have achieved over the past 5 seasons. This meant that those clubs could participate in the play-offs for European Foebal. Because; the cup will probably be won by a top-8 club anyway.
Well, Sparta still needs to win 4 more times (44 points approximately). Conclusion in the studio: that will work, so Sparta will go into the play-offs. It’s not nice to play against Sparta, so Sparta also wins the play-offs. AND THEN WE’RE JUST THERE
Transfertakkie
Fortunately, the winter transfer period is almost over. Terrible condition. Really not necessary for anyone. But Sander Cageman from AD is called to see if there is still commotion in the Spartan transfer market. And all three of us have a diploma in sales techniques, so we won’t mention everything Sander says here.
For the loyal Podterdam listeners: the connection with Sander was old-fashioned bad, has been re-established several times and was resolved with a piece of string solution. Some things never change.
On Saturday we win for the 3e time this season from FC Groningen and Sparta is therefore safe in January. But as described above: it is the road to Uuropa. It’s going to be a great season!
Red and White is never lost!
We are doing our utmost to have the episode online again as early as possible on Tuesday. We’re into previews these days!
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