The concerns for Feyenoord are great after Sunday’s 2-2 draw against RKC Waalwijk. Not only did the team from Rotterdam lose points, several players also fell out injured at the team of trainer Dick Advocaat. Bee FOX Sports Kees Kwakman points to the injury history of several players of Feyenoord, while Kenneth Perez expresses his horror at the club’s field play in the second half.

“The injuries have a significant impact on Feyenoord’s performance. Five changes due to inconveniences and that does have an influence on the level of the second half ”, Perez refers to the changes of João Carlos Teixeira, Bryan Linssen, Bart Nieuwkoop, Nicolai Jörgensen and Orkun Kökcü. Trainer Dick Advocaat took Linssen and Nieuwkoop to the side in the break as a precaution. “Nieuwkoop has difficulty with three games a week, so we were already planning this anyway”, he explains in conversation with FOX Sports.

Teixeira was injured ten minutes before the break and was replaced by Jörgensen, who himself had to stop the fight in the second half due to groin complaints. Kökcü, who got a cramp at the end during a visit to Dinamo Zagreb on Thursday, was replaced ten minutes before time. “We have to look carefully before Thursday what will happen to the group”, Advocaat is already looking ahead to the Europa League match against Wolfsberger AC. The loss of points hurts him. “A team like Feyenoord has to win here, but it was too messy for that. The second half was bad.”

The lawyer nevertheless has doubts when asked whether he can live with the result. “It was not that RKC had many chances, but they did have a certain threat from the counter”, says the Feyenoord trainer. “A large number of our players were not in the game, so you have to be careful. Fortunately we still make the 2-2 with that world goal, otherwise you just lose here …” Perez is harder in his opinion: the analyst states that the game of Feyenoord after the break seemed ‘completely unlike’. The visitors owed it to goals from Jörgensen and Ridgeciano Haps that there was no defeat.

“Abominable. Abonimabel bad. The first half they were fresh and it seemed as if they had agreed to reach 0-2 within half an hour. Then you can finish such a match. But now you have to go deep. But they did not have the physical capabilities to win the match, “the Dane concludes. Kwakman observes that Feyenoord has difficulty getting into the rhythm of one match every three to four days. “I am always a bit surprised about that. That players cannot play three games a week. ” Perez thought back to his own career. “I also played three times a week. That is what you want as a football player. When things are going well, you have almost no injuries. And now things are going reasonably well, but not very badly at Feyenoord either. ”

Kwakman also points to the injury history of certain players of Feyenoord, such as Nicolai Jörgensen and Bart Nieuwkoop. “João Teixeira has played ninety minutes five times in his career so far,” he added. “Five times. He is 27 years old. And then they now end up in such a schedule. Then it might be understandable that they can’t handle it. ” The statistic Kwakman points to concerns league matches for Vitória SC between 2018 and 2020. Including appearances in the cup tournament for SC Braga and Vitória and duels in the Championship for Brighton & Hove Albion, Teixeira has filled nineteen games since August 2014, before moving to Feyenoord came.