Live Premier League | AZ starts hunting for a fourth win in a row without Van Bommel

Live Eredivisie | AZ start zonder Van Bommel aan jacht op vierde zege op rij

Welkom in dit liveblog. Mijn naam is Nemo Schillemans en hier houd ik je op de hoogte van speelronde 28 van de Eredivisie. Veel plezier!

Eredivisie (speelronde 28)
18.45 uur: Heracles-AZ
20.00 uur: FC Utrecht-PEC Zwolle
21.00 uur: sc Heerenveen-FC Twente

Updates

Heracles-AZ | woensdag 3 april om 18:36

The first images of the warm-up are flooding into our image banks. We will start in Almelo in ten minutes.

Heracles-AZ | Wednesday April 3 at 6:29 PM

AZ coach Martens about Van Bommel: ‘He lacked aggressiveness’
Maarten Martens chooses to start with Myron van Brederode, and not with Ruben van Bommel. “He lacked some aggressiveness and perhaps some freshness in the last match. Yes. Then there are other players ready, of course. The competition is fierce,” says the AZ coach. ESPN. The Alkmaarders have finally found their way back up again, after a mediocre middle phase of this Eredivisie season. “We have to show again today that we are eager and put in a good performance. If you don’t win, it will eat away at a sportsman. That happened for a while, then you have to fight and come back. We had to be a unit “Little by little it has gotten better.”

Heracles-AZ | Wednesday April 3 at 6:25 PM

The Erve Asito field for the start of the warm-up, which is now in full swing. In about twenty minutes the football party will start in Almelo!

Heracles-AZ | Wednesday April 3 at 6:18 PM

Setups! There are the starting names of Heracles and AZ for the 6.45 pm match. For the visitors, attacker Ruben van Bommel starts on the bench. Myron van Brederode is preferred by trainer Martens. The names:

Heracles: Brewer; Port, Sonnenberg, Hoogma, Oppegard; De Keersmaecker, Vejinovic, Scheperman, Hrustic; Limbombe, Hornkamp.

A-Z: Ryan; Sugawara, Goes, Bazoer, Wolfe; Belic, Clasie; Mijnans, De Wit, Van Brederode; Pavlidis.

Heracles-AZ | Wednesday April 3 at 5:52 PM

Heracles-AZ | Wednesday April 3 at 5:51 PM

Non-match related news also came out about AZ today. Merijn Zeeman becomes the new general manager of AZ. The driver comes from cycling team Visma-Lease a Bike and will start working at the club from Alkmaar on December 1.

Heracles-AZ | Wednesday April 3 at 5:50 PM

But now first the focus on Heracles-AZ. The home team is still not sure of Eredivisie football next year. Heracles is currently fourteenth in the Eredivisie rankings, just four points above the relegation zone.

14. Heracles 27-26 -26
15. RKC 27-23 -19
16. Excelsior 28-22 -23
17. Vitesse 28-17 -37
18. FC Volendam 27-15 -41

Sc Heerenveen-FC Twente | Wednesday April 3 at 5:45 PM

Sc Heerenveen and FC Twente end the evening with the 9 p.m. match. Heerenveen, which is saying goodbye to coach Kees van Wonderen after this season, is having a fairly mediocre series. The past three matches were lost to NEC (2-0), Feyenoord (2-3) and even drew against relegation candidate RKC (1-1). Today, the number three of the Eredivisie is not an easy opponent on the field of the Abe Lenstra Stadium.

FC Utrecht-PEC Zwolle | Wednesday April 3 at 5:41 PM

At 8 p.m. it is the turn of FC Utrecht and PEC Zwolle. Both teams lost their first game after the international break last weekend against a team from the traditional top 3. FC Utrecht gave away a 0-2 lead in De Kuip, it eventually became 4-2 for Feyenoord. PEC could not make a fist against the ailing Ajax, which won 1-3 in Zwolle. What can Jans and Jansen’s teams do today?

Heracles-AZ | Wednesday April 3 at 5:39 PM

We kick off the evening at 6.45 pm with the match between Heracles and AZ. When the teams met in Alkmaar earlier this season, they only managed a 1-1 draw. Pavlidis then scored the goal on behalf of the home team, the score now stands at 24 for the Greek striker.

Premier League | Wednesday April 3 at 5:36 PM

Today is the second day of this midweek Eredivisie matchday on the program. Number three in the rankings, FC Twente, and number four, AZ, are among others in action today. You follow it here!