1 ‘Kick-off! The Rotterdam Derby Has Started, With Two Teams That Have Something to Make Up For. Feyenoord Lost 5-2 Midweek Against Fenerbahçe, While Excelsior Opened the Competition with A 5-0 Defeat at NEC.
For the first time since 2008, Excelsior is Playing a Home Match on Natural Grass in the Eredivisie Again.
When Excelsior Recorded its last Victory about Feyenoord, Van Persie was Already There, in his last season as a player. Van Persie Opened The Scoring on February 3, 2019, But Excelsior won 2-1 Thanks to a Late goal from Robin van der Meer.
Lotomba Gets The Chance to Redeem himself Tonight After His Weak Performance Against Fenerbahçe. “I think it’s clear that Jordan has played better games,” from Persie Said Yesterday at the Press Conference. “On the other hand, I also thinks important that he feels confident. I would like to be a coach of players who also to make mistakes. Who show courage and initiative. That is also the reason Why Jordan is in The Starting Lineup Tomorrow.”
Line-up Excelsior! A goalkeeper Change for the Home Team: Stijn van Gassel was an injured last week Against NEC, Calvin Raatsie Takes over His Place Under The Bar. The Belgian Right-back Nolan Martens Makes His Debut in the Eredivisie.
Line-up Feyenoord! No surprises in the line-up at Feyenoord, which start with the same as on Tuesday against fenerbahçe. Jordan Lotomba Made Several Mistakes in Istanbul, But Retains the Confidence of Van Persie.
We open this live blog with a fairly unique fact. Robin van Persie Will Be Coaching Tonight at a Stadium Where a Grandstand is Named After Him.
The Stadium Name Has Changed This Summer: Excelsior is Playing Again at Woudestein, which for the past Eight Years Has Been Known As The Van Donge & De Roo Stadium.
10 ‘Goal Excelsior! 1-0
And then the home Team Takes the Lead Through Sanches Fernandes! Timber is Dispossessed by Carlén, Who Frees Sanches Fernandes. Wellenreuther Seems to Be Able to Save, But Still Lets The Ball Slip in At The Near Post.
9 ‘A Slow Start to this City Derby, Especial Feyenoord Still Needs to Get Into It.
13 ‘Feyenoord Claims a Penalty After An Alleged Foul by Goalkeeper Raatsie on Steijn. Higler Waves It Away.
22 ‘Goal Feyenoord! 1-1
Feyenoord Equalizes Through Ueda, Timber Takes Revenge After His Mistake Just Now. The midfielder turns himself free nicely and shoots. Raatsie Saves Halfway, Ueda Heads in the Rebound.
18 ‘Sanches Fernandes Becomes Dangerous Again from the Right! But this time Wellenreuther can save in the near corner.
31 ‘Feyenoord has its hands full with the fellow city team. Apart from Ueda’s goal, it has not yet created any chancs. Excelsior has also not yet goths further than the two attempts by Sanches Fernandes.
35 ‘Goal Feyenoord! 1-2
Also after the second chance for feyenoord, it is a hit! And after Ueda, Steijn also Makes His Second of the Season. The Preparatory Work is by Sauer, after which Steijn Controls The Ball Cleverly and Places It In The Far Corner.
36 ‘Referee Higler Temporarily stops the match. There is a medical emergency in the section with the feyenoord fans.
39 ‘The Medical Staff Has Left the Grandstand Section, The Ball is Rolling Again After An Interruption of Three Minutes.
45+3 ‘Half-time! Feyenoord Gave Away the 1-0 Early in the Match, But Set Things Straight via Ueda and Steijn. And it could also have turned into an even bigger lead, without playing great.
45+1 ‘Watanabe is also close to the 1-3 after a corner. The Japanese Defender Scored Twice Against Fenerbahçe on Tuesday, but this time his corner is cleared off the line by Martens. The Ball would have gone across the goal anyway.
45 ‘Feyenoord Seems to Be Getting to 1-3, But Raatsie Saves One-On-One with Ueda! Then the goalkeeper also has to take action on a shot by timber.
46 ‘Within a minute of Duinen Gets A Golden Opportunity! But the formally Clubless Striker Shoots Harmlesly Wide.
46 ‘Kick-off! In Kralingen we have started again. Feyenoord Has Brought in Oussama Targhalline for Hwang In-Beom Dooring the Break.
51 ‘Feyenoord Takes a lot of risk in the build-up and plays the ball around to its own back line. Excelsior is trying to put a lot of pressure, but so far it always goes well for feyenoord.
57 ‘At Feyenoord, One of the Most Talked-About Players of This Week Makes Way. Lotomba is replaced by Bart Nieuwkoop. The Right-Back was dragged through the mud on social media after his Poor Performance Against Fenerbahçe. But Tonight He is supported exemplary by the present Feyenoord fans in Woudestein.
64 ‘A Few Feyenoord Fans Are Already Cheering, But Steijn’s Free Kick Really Ends Up In The Side Netting. That wasn’t much …
68 ‘Feyenoord Fails to Seal the Match! Substitute Gijs Smal Comes Face to Face With Raatsie, But The Goalkeeper Saves.
70 ‘Feyenoord gets an indirect free kick in the penalty area, when reatie picks up a back pass from widell!
71 ‘The Entire Excelsior Team is Standing in Front of Their Own Goal Line. But Timber Shoots High over from the free kick.
73 ‘Feyenoord Escapes, Excelsior Hits The Post Twice in A Row!
First Zagré, then de Regt in the after-shot: Especialally the Second One Should Have Gone in.
74 ‘and on the other side, feyenoord seems to make it 1-3! But Steijn and Ueda Both don’t get along with their passes.
80 ‘Excelsior Bites hard in the Final Phase and Comes Close to 2-2 Again. Substitute Ilias Bronkhorst Heads The Ball Towards The Far Post, Ahmedhodzic Almost Shoots It Into His Own Goal.
90+3 ‘Feyenoord is Almost there Against Excelsior. Wellenreuther has to catch his breath after he punches away the ball and bumps into the south korean substitute yoon do-young.
90+6 ‘finished! Feyenoord and Robin van Persie Can Breathe a sigh of relief: It Remains 1-2 Against Excelsior, just after a Stormy Final Phase of the Home Team. And so Feyenoord Still Has The Maxim Score After Two Matches.