By winning against FC Utrecht and closing in on PSV by three points, Feyenoord was the big winner at the top of the Eredivisie this weekend. Yet it is not very likely that the title race will actually be exciting. Pieter Zwart also predicted this in the podcast VI ASAP.
“As a neutral viewer you hope so, but I don’t think so,” said the editor-in-chief of Football International. “It is still a very big gap. PSV has been very stable during the season and no longer has a very tough programme. It is also likely that Feyenoord will still lose points somewhere along the way. Then it is a very big gap to close. to make.”
Yet the people of Rotterdam show that they are still doing everything they can. “If you saw Feyenoord play against Utrecht again… That scoreboard disguised it for a long time; Utrecht crossed the halfway line twice and scored twice. But otherwise Feyenoord were lord and master. You see how high the level is that Feyenoord can catch up. But they have been less consistent than PSV this season. There is little reason to assume that Feyenoord will now make up for that seven-point gap in one go.”
Nice goals
(Neutral) viewers were also treated to beautiful goals from Igor Paixão and Dávid Hancko on Sunday. “My personal preference is Hancko’s,” Zwart said. “I’m not really into long shots either. I see it go in and I think A, the goalkeeper can do more here, and B, every ball that Paixão gets now, he will try to shoot from 40 meters. You can see that more often with those types of players. He has already scored four times from outside the box this season, so you can say that it is a specialty of his.”
Outside the goal, Zwart certainly enjoyed what he called Hancko’s ‘great’ performance. “He is one of the best players in the Eredivisie this season, if you see how consistently he reaches a high level. In the first half he gave the ball to Gimenez after a dribble. He is very good defensively, but also adds constructive He adds a lot to him. He is really an incredibly good player, on whom Feyenoord can make a lot of money next summer. Left-footed central defenders are well in the market.”
