Joseph Oosting is heading for third place in the Eredivisie with FC Twente. To achieve this, the Tukkers will have to deal with Almere City FC at home on Wednesday evening. The preliminary round of the Champions League beckons, while the main phase of the Europa League is almost a fact.
“This may seem very normal to everyone, but it is not,” says trainer Joseph Oosting Tubantia. “Look who all left last season. The basic players Ugalde and Brenet were added in the meantime. We are talking about seven players and not the least. It is even better from my boys how we are doing now. And while we are still in full development. Not every match is great, but we are working on something great and that starts on Wednesday.”
FC Twente suffered a major setback in the battle for third place. A week and a half ago, the Tukkers unnecessarily lost 2-1 at Ajax. “We have certainly taken some lessons from Amsterdam,” Oosting says. “In that match I missed the characters with a bit of poison in their thunder, who said: This far and no further.”
“We also talked about that and this week we organized a training session on that,” the trainer continued. “Who calls the animal by its name in the field? That you look at each other and say: Why don’t you help me and switch gears? What do you need when it comes to a man-to-man fight in the field? I expect it to be such a battle against Almere. They switched to survival football early in the season and they master that game well.”
