LIVE | PEC Zwolle line-up against Feyenoord announced: Jansen appoints replacements Lam and Namli | PEC Zwolle

For PEC Zwolle’s last victory over Feyenoord, we have to go back to 2019. The Zwolle team were 3-1 too strong on the nineteenth of January of that year. Bram van Polen, Vito van Crooy and Younes Namli, who is missing tonight due to suspension, then scored the goals.

After that victory, Feyenoord and PEC Zwolle faced each other seven times and all those matches resulted in a Rotterdam victory. The first mutual meeting of this season ended in a 0-2 victory for the formation of coach Arne Slot. Both goals were scored by Santiago Giménez, who will have to hope for a substitute tonight.

Arne Slot is on the bench at Feyenoord for the hundredth time tonight. The trainer, who will most likely leave the Rotterdam team after this season for an adventure in England, of course has a past with PEC Zwolle. As a player, he wore the shirt of the Zwolle club 176 times, scoring 52 goals and 30 assists. After his playing career, Slot worked as a youth coach in Zwolle.

Lennart Czyborra is not part of the PEC Zwolle selection tonight. The wing defender is ill and therefore did not travel to South Rotterdam.

Santiago Giménez starts on the bench at Feyenoord. The top scorer of the club from Rotterdam was injured a week and a half ago during the warm-up for the away match against Go Ahead Eagles. Ayase Ueda is the striker again. Thomas Beelen, who exchanged PEC for Feyenoord last summer, has a starting place. Thomas van den Belt is a reserve.

As expected, Damian van der Haar and Eliano Reijnders are the replacements for Thomas Lam and Younes Namli respectively. For the rest, Jansen sticks to the same names as in the home match against Heracles.

PEC Zwolle line-up: violator; Van Polen, Kersten, Mac Nulty, Van der Haar; El Azzouzi, Velanas, Krastev; Reijnders, Thy, Van der Water.

Although PEC still plays three games until the summer break, now that another year of the Premier League is certain, we can slowly but surely look towards the new season. It promises to be another turbulent summer. In addition to the composition of the selection, the Zwolle residents have three more issues heading into next season.

PEC Zwolle played it safe last week thanks to the 3-1 victory over Heracles and FC Utrecht’s draw at RKC Waalwijk. Johnny Jansen can breathe a sigh of relief. The trainer was regularly under fire and especially after the bad series in the second half of the season, it was questionable whether he would stay on. Jansen looks back on a turbulent year.

After the victory over Excelsior, the draw at NEC and the victory against Heracles Almelo, PEC Zwolle also hopes to achieve a good result when visiting Feyenoord. That will be difficult, not least because Johnny Jansen is missing two important players tonight.

Both Thomas Lam and Younes Namli received his fifth yellow card of this season in the home match against Heracles last week, which means a suspension. So they are not there in De Kuip. Lam may be replaced by Damian van der Haar, while Eliano Reijnders is the logical replacement for Namli. Reijnders started on the bench last week.

PEC’s probable line-up: violator; Van Polen, Kersten, Mac Nulty, Van der Haar; El Azzouzi, Velanas, Krastev; Reijnders, Thy, Van der Water.