As if the blow of being eliminated from the Europa League had left them knocked out, Santiago Giménez’s Feyenoord came out asleep against Almere City and almost ended up paying for it. The Rotterdam team suffered greatly to win 0-2a result that allows them to remain 10 points behind the leader PSV, their next rival.
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The Mexican forward Santiago Giménez played 69 minutes and once again remained unmarked. Although “Bebote” had a good opportunity to get on the scoreboard, in reality he was also a victim of his team’s poor offensive play.
Beyond the complicated moment that the team led by Arne Slot is experiencingthe confidence of visiting a mid-table team anticipated a relatively easy match. Very soon, however, Almere showed that they were not willing to make things easy for the runners-up.
One of the first clear opportunities came for those from Rotterdam, in a dizzying counterattack that suddenly placed Santiago Giménez in the one-on-one match against the goalkeeper. Unfortunately for the Mexican, the ball kept bouncing and he never found a finishing position, so the defender controlled the situation and “Chaquito” was left lying on the grass, unable to define.
The danger soon changed frame and just a few minutes later, Wellenreuther denied Hansen the goalby making a good bailout that prevented the goal that would have represented the advantage for Almere.
Feyenoord responded to the grievance with a goal disallowed to Geertruida, in a play in which Santiago Giménez had participated, but the referee, supported by the VAR, signaled offside.
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ARNE SLOT MOVED HIS PIECES
When the match threatened to end goalless, Strategist Arne Slot shook the bench at 61 and sent Yankuba Minteh to the field, who would become the figure of the party. The footballer from Gambia, just 10 minutes after entering, shot left-footed from outside the area to nail it into the goalkeeper’s far corner.
After Feyenoord’s goalAlmere went with everything in search of a tie, and were close to achieving it if it were not for the good performance of Wellenreuther, who controlled the gale and gave his team the chance to settle everything, at 92, in a new goal for Mintehby finishing only inside the area.
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The three points allowed Feyenoord to maintain the distance of 10 points with respect to the leader PSV; The same thing that they will seek to cut back next week, when they face each other in a match that could define the Eredivisie.