FC Twente often plays with Michel Vlap as a left winger this season. The 26-year-old Frisian is originally an attacking midfielder, or a 10. Naci Ünüvar can also start on the left, but he has not done so once this season. Kees Kwakman sees a ‘real’ left winger missing from Joseph Oosting’s team
Christian Willaert realizes that despite the many departed wingers, FC Twente is doing very well on the flanks. “At the start of the season, everyone said that FC Twente lost a lot of quality on the wings. Virgil Misidjan and Vaclav Cerny both left, but Daan Rots has quietly established himself as a starting player,” he says. ESPN.
Kwakman agrees with Willaert regarding Rots, but makes a comment about the left side. “Certainly. However, I still think that they are missing a real left winger, because Michel Vlap is also going to search on the field. For example, you see him coming out in the center and at the end against Heerenveen also on the right, he is simply not a left winger.”
Kwakman also sees that this hinders other players in the field. “I also think that Gijs Smal suffers from that. Not because he is Vlap, because he is a very good player. However, he is simply not a real left winger, so I continue to think that FC Twente is missing a real winger on the left side.” , he concludes.
