Go Ahead Eagles showed clemency with NAC Breda on Monday evening with a 6-0 victory, which has become an embarrassed team due to the corona virus. The team of trainer Kees van Wonderen easily qualifies for the second round of the TOTO KNVB Cup. After nineteen minutes of play, the Deventer club was already leading 5-0 and in the end a goal was only added two minutes after the break.

Jeroen Veldmate acknowledged afterwards in conversation with FOX Sports that Go Ahead slowed down after the generous lead. “Ajax didn’t do it, we did indeed do it a bit. That may be a bit in people sometimes ”, the captain stated, referring to Ajax’s 0-13 victory over VVV-Venlo. “And we’re not used to this either, are we! Maybe you also think a bit: played a tough game on Friday, again today, and on Saturday we can again, because the competition is of course the most important thing for us. Maybe it had to do with that. ”

Sam Beukema opened the score in the seventh minute with a good header from a corner kick. Then it went quickly: Sam Hendriks, Zakaria Eddahchouri, Jeroen Veldmate (penalty kick) and Luuk Brouwers all picked up a goal. Antoine Rabillard scored shortly after the break, but it was not the prelude to another rain of goals. Go Ahead also did not come close to the biggest cup victory in its own club history, an 11-0 victory over SC Genemuiden in 2004.

Van Wonderen was proud of his players after the impressive victory. “NAC missed many players, but we still have to put this down ourselves. I have seen my team do beautiful things and I am happy with the things that I have seen ”, he emphasized in conversation with the Stentor. “Playing balls deep in the build-up, putting pressure on when the ball is lost, making the right choices in excess. These are the things we’ve been training on for weeks and months and now it came out this way. Beautiful.”

“My team is better than it sometimes thinks. There is a lot of quality in this selection, but players should be aware of that themselves. It is conceivable that this will become some kind of tipping point. It was such a match. The realization of: ‘This is what we can do together’. This victory must give a lot of confidence and I hope that something will now also arise in my team ”, Van Wonderen looked ahead. Go Ahead, which is eleventh in the Kitchen Champion Division, has lost only one of the last five official matches. Next Sunday Excelsior will visit De Adelaarshorst.