Tyrell Malacia is happy with his winning goal in Sunday afternoon’s game against SC Cambuur (2-3). The left back of Feyenoord was crowned Man of the Match after his beautiful long shot in Friesland. Malacia gives opposite ESPN However, he admitted not being completely satisfied with the difficult victory: “We give the goals away too easily.”
Feyenoord fell behind in Leeuwarden after 23 minutes of play due to a goal by David Sambissa. Even before the break, Arne Slot’s team managed to turn the score around to a 1-2 lead thanks to goals from Bryan Linssen and Fredrik Aurnses. After the break, however, Feyenoord slackened, after which Sambissa was able to level the score again in the 50th minute with his second goal. “That was mostly up to us,” said Malacia, who is of the opinion that Feyenoord conceded the goals too easily. “Other than that, not much happens. The only thing we can blame ourselves after that is that we don’t score ourselves,” says Malacia.
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Linssen agrees with his teammate. “I think we give away goals too easily. Especially when you look at the second one, that was very unnecessary.” Tom Boere won a header against Marcos Senesi in midfield prior to the 2-2 in midfield and served Jamie Jacobs, who in turn launched Sambissa. Face to face with goalkeeper Justin Bijlow, the Frenchman remained calm. Feyenoord himself missed several opportunities. “We do not finish it ourselves and then you make it difficult for yourself”, Linssen knows. The striker also had the chance to score his second goal of the afternoon and to lock the match definitively, when Cambuur goalkeeper Sonny Stevens had gone forward in the final phase.
“I heard from all sides that the keeper was out of the goal, but I didn’t even notice. I heard everyone shouting, but I was completely devastated.” Linssen shot the ball far wide of the goal of the Frisians from midfield. “I didn’t know it all anymore. I am completely broken and in pain all over. My back is also screwed up,” said the 31-year-old attacker. Feyenoord rises to fourth place in the Eredivisie due to the victory over Cambuur. The Rotterdammers are one point behind FC Utrecht, but have played one game less. Cambuur, which has already lost three games in a row, has dropped to twelfth place in the ranking due to the result of Sunday afternoon.