Afellay: “Feyenoord advertisement for Dutch football”

Feyenoord get the tips in the talk show Studio Voetbal. Pierre van Hooijdonk, Theo Janssen and Ibrahim Afellay enjoy the Rotterdam team game. Last Wednesday they won deservedly against SL Benfica and FC Utrecht had little say in the Galgenwaard on Sunday afternoon.

“I thought Feyenoord were very comfortable on the ball,” Janssen begins his praise in the broadcast of the NOS. “Obviously they have two great midfielders who always came in at the right time, which allowed them to create a triangle. Feyenoord were very dominant when they didn’t have the ball. So if they lost the ball, they were tied by three. or four men putting pressure on the ball.

“I really enjoyed the game, I thought it was a fun game to watch. This is mostly related to Feyenoord, they all went for it. Hwang and Timber were excellent again.” Feyenoord managed to cope easily under the high pressure of FC Utrecht. According to Janssen, Feyenoord should give special thanks to the goalkeeper for this: “He is waiting for time before he answered. He deliberately remained standing with the ball at his feet, like: come on. Then a striker had to go out on him and he often played with Beelen.”

Bueno wins

Pierre van Hooijdonk would like to see Feyenoord’s first goal again. The former Feyenoord player is full of praise for the Spanish left-back’s contribution. Every pass from Bueno arrived and he was also involved in Julian Carranza’s goal. “Bueno’s cross was particularly good. It was also fantastic last Wednesday in Lisbon. Anyone who doubts this is a shot is way off the mark. Just hit the ball hard with your inside foot in the space between the end line and the goalkeeper, which cannot be defended.”

Van Hooijdonk was critical of coach Brian Priske’s team at first, but now things are running like clockwork. “Because they played with a different team. I call Bueno, which is a different world from Smal. Hwang played against Leverkusen after just one training session, so you could see his added value. It’s been a few weeks now and he’s now the real leader of the team. Trauner did not participate today, but he was there again in Lisbon. That created so much peace in the build up. That’s three players. Add Osman, who has also been playing football for a few more weeks, and you can see that Feyenoord have received an injection of quality and are now playing great football.”

Erosion patterns

Afellay agrees and suggests that Priske is trying to keep his team intact as much as possible. “You now also see that Feyenoord play with the same formation for a long time, which allows you to establish patterns automatically. That match against Benfica was an advertisement for Dutch football. If you can put such a team with his back against the wall, both with the ball and without the ball, throughout the entire game. I think it’s a shame to turn something around while it’s going really well. Fortunately, this did not have any fatal consequences. When you see how they are standing today against Utrecht with two fingers up their nose, I think that is very good. ”

“Feyenoord is much further than Ajax, of course, I think what Priske is doing at Feyenoord is much better than what Farioli is doing at Ajax,” said the footballer who was before when De Klassieker was discussed. “Things could not have been worse at Ajax, at Feyenoord the situation was so good that Arne Slot did much more than expected ‘ such a coach leaves, you have to succeed and then the main players leave too. If you can achieve this in such a short time. Very clever” Van Hooijdonk sees that De Klassieker is coming at the right time. For Feyenoord it was a blessing that De Klassieker was taken out of the program after Sparta. They are not going to win easily now, but at the time it was not really mean it.”