15:13 Searching for direction Feyenoord's midfield is desperately looking for control of the match. Oussama Targhalline is often on the ground and is of little value in possession. Thijs Kraaijeveld is not working on the ball in a match in which he mainly makes the right choices. And Danny Buijs always has Philip Brittijn close to Luciano Valente, who has not yet come loose for that reason. Problem for Van Persie: he has no midfielders on the bench today in Sittard.
351353 Oh dear 51' 1-0 GOAL by Kaj Sierhuis! Feyenoordput it on themselves and is now really looking at a deficit. Sierhuis is much more alert than Trauner and sends a beautiful header into the goal. The lead of the home team is impossible to call undeserved.
86' Is there more in it for Feyenoord? Van Persie's team is on the hunt for the 1-2 against Sittard's ten. Well, I don't think that's wise. The last few cases it ended in conceiding in injury time a goal to lose the match.
Seriously? Targhalline was on the ground because he is Feyenoord's most-fouled player and those are then free kicks for us. And Kraaijeveld, good choices?? I'll let van Persie weigh in; oh I see, Targhalline left on and Kraaijeveld removed.
Yeah, I watched the match. The Fortuna striker, Gladon, was chasing a ball over the top of the defense that was running straight to Wellenreuther. Gladon reached out far ahead with his right leg extended, studs up and right into Wellenreuther's groin. Gladon didn't even contact the ball, which was to the right side of him. Kooij gave him a yellow card and then VAR called him over to look at it, after which he changed it to a straight red.
So you were reading someone else's commentary. Okay. Targhalline runs the offense for van Persie; you can see that in the many times van Persie calls him over for a discussion during a stoppage in play. Kraaijeveld has done well recently, but not today. His passing and shooting were way off.
351784 Feyenoord wants to get technical director away from Club Brugge Now that the resistance to the arrival of Robert Eenhoorn has disappeared in the Kuip, Feyenoord wants to make haste. In addition to Eenhoorn as general manager, the young Belgian Dévy Rigaux (38) is a serious candidate to become technical director, according to Mikos Gouka, AD's Club watcher Feyenoord on May 5, 2026. Dévy Rigaux (38) is high on Feyenoord's wish list. In the Kuip they want to appoint a general manager (Robert Eenhoorn) and a technical director at lightning speed and Rigaux is a top candidate. With Club Brugge, he is still in the race for the Belgian national title; when that's over, he could make a move to Feyenoord. Rigaux's name was also linked to Feyenoord last summer. Inquiries showed that nothing was going on in the summer, but that Feyenoord had sat down with the Belgian months earlier. "But by then he had already committed to Bruges", said an insider in the Kuip. Now that after the departure of general and technical director Dennis te Kloese - who will officially step down on July 1 - and technical manager Mark Ruijl, a new technical boss has to come to the Kuip, the Belgian's name is coming up again. Rigaux is not sitting on a kicking chair in Bruges, although he is not in charge of everything there in the technical field. Rigaux tracks down the players, sports director Maarten Dedobbeleer determines the composition of the selection. In Rotterdam, he would be able to set his own course even more on a technical level, is the expectation.
He had many roles at Club Brugge: On the other hand, Club Brugge is close to his heart. Since 2009, he has grown from a youth coach with the under 8 and under 10 to an important link in the youth academy. In between, he was an interpreter, team manager and recruitment manager. The West-Fleming, who lives in Ghent, learned the tricks of the trade under the wings of ex-CEO Vincent Mannaert and is a highly valued pawn within the club. Chairman Bart Verhaeghe would rather not lose Rigaux. Club Brugge sees the upcoming transfer window as one of the most important in club history, something Feyenoord will also say about their window. The decisive CEO Bob Madou also does not want to lose his Director of Football just like that, they know in Belgium. There they also know that Rigaux already had a conversation with Feyenoord. According to the well-informed newspaper HLN, this took place earlier this year in Zeist. At Feyenoord they are happy that no one is resisting the arrival of Robert Eenhoorn anymore, so that there can be serious discussions about an employment with the ex-baseball player. The fact that a technical director may have to be added to Rotterdam even sooner, the top of Feyenoord also understands. In the Kuip they emphasize that there is no agreement (yet) with Rigaux. In principle, the general manager and technical director to be recruited decide whether trainer Robin van Persie is the right man for next season. For Rigaux, that is the man who in 2014 in Salvador put his hero Iker Casillas to shame with that sublime header. He named his son after the man who took the world title from the Netherlands in 2010 in Soccer City in Johannesburg. Iker is the name of the little Rigaux, after the goalkeeper who managed to keep Arjen Robben from scoring in South Africa. But also the man who four years later was nailed to the ground by Robin van Persie's legendary diving header during the World Cup in Brazil in 2014.
352032 Van Persie makes defensive change to duel in which second place can be taken definitively It could be a great day for Feyenoord. Although the deficit on national champion PSV is large, the Rotterdammers can definitely grab a Champions League ticket for next season. Then Feyenoord will have to beat AZ. And it goes wrong already
1' GOAL! 0-1 AZ! Goal by Troy Parrott! 1' After ten seconds, Wellenreuther wants to let the ball roll into his own sixteen to pick it up. That goes wrong, because Parrott is there earlier and taps the ball in.
Oh dear: 1' After ten seconds, Wellenreuther wants to let the ball roll into his own sixteen to pick it up. That goes wrong, because Parrott is there earlier and taps the ball in. But it is offside for the AZ striker. 1' GOAL! 0-1 AZ! Goal by Troy Parrott! Trauner sloppily hands the ball in to Clasie. The AZ captain serves Parrott, who passes Wellenreuther with a beautiful chip kick. And that after 50 seconds! The Alkmaar team in the lead in the Kuip.
Van den Elshout sent Hadj Moussa down the right side with an excellent throughball, and Anis's goal was enough to give Feyenoord a 1-1 draw.
352817 NOS Football• Monday, 14:09 Feyenoord reaches agreement with technical director Rigaux, counts on the arrival of Eenhoorn Dévy Rigaux will be the new technical director of Feyenoord. The 38-year-old Belgian comes over from Club Brugge and will sign a three-year contract in Rotterdam. In addition, it is expected that Feyenoord will also come to terms with Robert Eenhoorn this week, who should become the new general manager. Together, Rigaux and Eenhoorn will then take over the duties of the departing director Dennis te Kloese. If this all comes together, we'll have a competent team running the show.