Almere City coach Gertjan Verbeek does not have a good word for the way in which his team lost 0-2 to MVV Maastricht on Friday evening. The second goal against the trainer reminds the trainer of ‘sabotage’, while he opposite ESPN let it be known that it might be a good thing that no audience was allowed at the game in the Kitchen Champion Division.
Verbeek saw a match on Friday evening ‘in which we forced a sixty-minute sneeze’. “And just after the break we fall behind very clumsily. Then it is one of those games in which we even get a penalty… In that phase I thought we were a bit stronger, played better football. A handball was made, so a justified knock. That is therefore not in it…”, says Verbeek about Jonas Arweiler’s miss.
Striking words from Verbeek afterwards ?????
“If you look at how the second goal comes about, you would almost think of sabotage.” #almmvv pic.twitter.com/r8pkClEvTU
— ESPN NL (@ESPNnl) Nov 19, 2021
With just under ten minutes left, Ramon Leeuwin blundered by sliding the ball into the feet of MVV attacker Mitchy Ntelo, after which Sven Blummel was able to make his second of the evening and thus determined the final score. “If you then look at how the second goal is achieved, you would almost think of sabotage. It was just not good, substandard. Especially in a home game. We can be happy that there were no supporters. It is too crazy for words that I say that,” said Verbeek.
Due to the ninth loss of the season, Almere City is stuck at only thirteen points from sixteen games. Verbeek’s team can be found in eighteenth place in the ranking. Only TOP Oss (twelve points) and FC Dordrecht (ten points) have performed worse than Almere this season. Almere City will play again on Monday 29 November in the away match against FC Emmen.
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