Feyenoord must achieve a result without Sinisterra and Trauner in and against Heerenveen. The team received plenty of compliments, but after a failed week, suddenly yearns for a good result.
By Mikos Gouka
The last showdown of 2021 is one for Feyenoord that will determine the feeling of the first half of the season. If that measurement moment had been about a week and a half ago, immediately after the European win against Maccabi Haifa, just about everyone in Rotterdam and the surrounding area would have gone into polonaise towards the turn of the year. But the last week was suddenly one full of setbacks. FC Groningen took a point against Feyenoord, FC Twente knocked the Rotterdam team out of the cup tournament and Ajax once again won a Classic in the Kuip.
Heerenveen as a final chord is a difficult stop, but a three-pointer in Friesland can largely take away the annoying week, thinks trainer Arne Slot. ,,Otherwise there is indeed disappointment”, says Slot. ,,Although a week later that is probably less if you look at the big picture. If you look at what we’ve accomplished since the summer.”
The feeling after the defeat against Ajax also departed according to that scenario. The disappointment was great, but Slot saw when looking back at the images that Feyenoord had not allowed a single shot on goal after the penalty of the team from Amsterdam. ,,And we spent a lot of time at Ajax’s sixteen-meter area and, moreover, I have rarely seen Ajax play a long ball so often”, said Slot.
The trainer is therefore satisfied with his selection. That also means that he would rather not see any players leave during the winter break. Not even Mark Diemers, the trainer said, while the midfielder, like Joao Teixeira, was allowed to look around elsewhere in the summer. Injuryleed then confused a possible transfer for those players. But also a boy like Ramon Hendriks, who is rarely or never discussed, does not immediately have to count on the green light if he were to submit a wish to rent out to Frank Arnesen.
Trauner is not there against Heerenveen and immediately we are tight in the defenders and then I just like to have Hendriks there
,,Trauner is not there against Heerenveen and immediately we are tight in the defenders and then I just like to have Hendriks there. And it remains to be seen how long Sinisterra will no longer be there. The investigations are still ongoing, nothing can be said about that. We don’t have to think in months, but even then it will be tight at the front.”
The fact that Feyenoord then attracts attacker Diallo from Manchester United, who almost left for Rotterdam in the summer but was injured at the last minute, is not an issue, according to Slot. The trainer did not know that the new coach Ralf Ragnick would rather keep him in Manchester. ,,The fact that I didn’t know that shows how busy we have been with him”, says Slot.
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