Feyenoord coach Arne Slot has been able to submit a flawless Kuip report so far: if there is a win against NEC on Saturday, he will be the first Feyenoord-trainer since 1980 who wins his first six home games with the Rotterdam team. However, he does not attach much importance to it.
“What does that tell me? That we have started well,” he responds coolly during Friday’s press conference. “As I always try to put everything in the right perspective, I will now do that: Preliminary rounds of the Conference League is also a level that not every coach has started with,” he refers to the matches against FC Drita, FC Lucerne and IF Elfsborg. “Nevertheless, it’s very nice that we won those games.”
NEC will come to Rotterdam South on Saturday evening. Slot is wary of the Nijmegen PhD student. “I think they also started very well. They played six matches, in which they kept a clean sheet three times (against PEC Zwolle, Heracles Almelo and Willem II, ed.). And a big defeat against Ajax, but they are not in that. the only.”
Feyenoord will take office without Marcus Pedersen: the Norwegian right back received a boost from teammate Gernot Trauner against PSV, played against sc Heerenveen in midweek, but now has a new injury. “He has suffered a small injury, so he is not in the selection. He did not come out of Wednesday’s game very well.”
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