Plot twist in the situation of Vito Wormgoor at SC Cambuur and good news for Michael Breij

The Thursday on which the first team of SC Cambuur completed the last training for the away match with FC Eindhoven was a special day for trainer Henk de Jong. Exactly a year ago, the trainer from Drachten was on the operating table to have the annoying cyst removed from his head. An operation that took more than four hours, but had a good outcome.

“That was almost the first thing I thought about in the morning when I got up,” said De Jong during the weekly press talk. The fact that he has now been freed from that ailment is a huge relief, but he doesn’t really celebrate it. “No, but of course we talk about it together at home. And tonight we are all going to eat a nice fries with the family. Mothers comes too.”

Henk de Jong: ‘I want to see something I like’

In the meantime, life goes on as usual and there is a difficult away match scheduled for Friday evening. De Jong said he would largely stick to the tactics he introduced against Telstar last week, with three central defenders. Although he hinted that, tactically speaking, a number of accents may be shifted. “I want to see something I like,” he said with a wink.

The coach did not want to say anything about it, as he did not want to make the opponent any wiser, but it appears that Milan Smit, who has returned from a suspension, will get a place in the starting line-up again. This also applies to Roberts Uldrikis. The Latvian deliberately only played more than 20 minutes during the international match against Liechtenstein on Tuesday, so that he would be fit for FC Eindhoven-away.

Agustin Anello, Michael Breij and Vito Wormgoor

It is clear that De Jong will have to make do without Agustin Anello on Friday evening. The attacker, hired from Sparta, will be out for the next two weeks with a knee injury. On the other hand, Michael Breij has made a cautious return to the training field. “He will still need weeks, but I expect to have him back before the end of the season.”

And then there was the plot twist surrounding Vito Wormgoor. Last Friday, the experienced player appeared to have torn his hamstring during a training match, the club also announced, but that now appears not to be the case. De Jong said on Thursday that it was a sprain and he expressed the expectation that he will be able to use Wormgoor again before the end of the season.