amateurs Noordwijk eliminate premier league club Willem II

Noordwijk may not have won much in the competition, but it did pull off a stunt in the KNVB cup tournament by reaching the eighth finals at the expense of Willem II: 2-1.

The ailing number sixteen of the second division, who last won on November 16, was too strong for the two-time cup champion who is eleventh in the Premier League in a rainy and windy Noordwijk.

After Quick Boys, which knocked Fortuna Sittard out of the tournament, the club is the second amateur club to eliminate a premier league club in this round.

While the speaker was still calling on Noordwijk supporters to stop lighting fireworks, the ball was already in Willem II’s goal.

Tilburg’s loss of ball on the artificial grass led to a cross from Sander Bosma from the left in the second minute, which was expertly headed in by Emiel Wendt. The 30-year-old attacker, who works for a dredging company, has been playing for Noordwijk for thirteen years and has announced that this is his last season so he can spend more time with his family.

The same Wendt was close to making it 2-0 fifteen minutes later, but the cross from the emerging right back Neto slid just wide. His shot from the turn in the 23rd minute also failed to hit the target.

Noordwijk may not be a high flyer in the second division, but the attacking intentions of the amateurs caused Willem II a lot of problems. And coach Peter Maes had quite a few headaches, because his team showed nothing, except for a ball over Tommy St. Jago from a free kick before half time.

Initially not after rest either. In fact, they fell behind 2-0 after a goal by Arantis Roep in the 56th minute. When Wendt was fouled, referee Martin van den Kerkhof applied the advantage rule, after which Willem II keeper Connor van den Berg completely misjudged Roep’s shot.

Noordwijk saw the Tilburg team quickly come back to 2-1 thanks to a goal by Maes, who was forced to bring in slightly injured substitute Jeremy Bokila from a cross from Boris Lambert.

The tension was back. Willem II finally got the hang of it and went looking for the equalizer. Emilio Kehrer hit a free kick on the post in the seventieth minute, but no matter what the Brabant team tried, Noordwijk stayed upright.

As a result, the amateurs will be eliminated in the draw for the next round of the KNVB Cup.

Rijnsburgse Boys also managed to eliminate a professional football club. The team from Rijnsburg and Volendam did not score before halftime, although Mark van der Weijden was close to the opening goal with a header on the post in the eighth minute.

Volendam, the most scoring team in the first division with 42 goals, had to watch how ‘De Uien’, as the nickname of Rijnsburgse Boys is, was the first to score a goal. Captain Bram Ros headed in a turning free kick from the right fifteen minutes after half-time for the 1-0.

Nino Klaver scored a beautiful goal to put the amateurs of Rijnsburgse Boys at 2-0 in the final phase. Another cup success for coach René van der Kooij, who eliminated Ajax in the second round last season with Hercules.

At Barendrecht, which eliminated Eemdijk 1-6, Bram de Bruin was the big man. After Tren Drexhage’s quick 0-1 with an assist from De Bruin, the midfielder himself scored twice before halftime with his dangerous left leg, one bang even harder than the other.

The number seven of the second division no longer had any problems in the second half against Eemdijk, which was in eighth place in the third division A. De Bruin scored a hat trick by making it 4-0 early in the second half, which decided the battle. In the end it became 1-6.

De Graafschap was also on a roll against the amateurs of Sparta Nijkerk at halftime thanks to two goals from striker Jesse van der Haar, who came from the youth academy of FC Utrecht.

The number six from the first division extended the lead fifteen minutes after the break through Van der Haar’s third goal, who also scored a hat trick. The Iraqi Blnd Hassan made it 0-4, meaning that the cup adventure is over for the Nijkerkers, who play in the third division A.

The draw for the eighth finals is Friday at 5 p.m.