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Twente 2 – 0 N.E.C.: Don’t judge a game by it’s score line!

December 10, 2011

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Don’t judge a book by its cover, and along that same line, don’t judge a game by its score line. Yes, Twente further reduced the gap with league leaders AZ with this seemingly comfortable win, with a nice home clean sheet in the process too. But, no, Twente played below par for most of the […]

N.E.C. – PSV 2 – 2: Two costly points lost by the league leaders

March 13, 2011

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N.E.C. managed to maintain their excellent home record of just two losses this Eredivisie campaign as a fierce gung-ho final minutes brought them a late, but deserved equalizer. PSV lacked creativity, playing without Toivonen, leaving Berg and Koevermans on the bench and of course, missing Afellay since the winter transfer window.   Two 4-2-3-1’s The […]

Roda 1 – 1 N.E.C. : Vloet answers Roda’s diamond with a three man defense

October 26, 2010

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Roda’s fifth Eredivisie home match brought them a third draw, but despite maintaining their unbeaten home record, discontent will prevail. Wiljan Vloet lined N.E.C. up in an unconventional 3-3-3-1 formation which posed insurmountable problems to Roda’s 4-4-2 diamond. Therefore N.E.C. came away with an unexpected, but deserved point from this match. Roda’s diamond beating NAC […]