Justin Eversen

Goalkeeper - De Graafschap
28 Aug 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Justin Eversen

54 Edition

The Utrecht Gazette

9 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Real improvement from Kiyani Zeggen at Utrecht

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Kiyani Zeggen is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

A falling-out at Utrecht

Alonzo Engwanda and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

A late step up for Alonzo Engwanda

At 24 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.

Squad

Joris van Overeem signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Joris van Overeem and Utrecht agree another 2 years.

Market

The Joris van Overeem conversation is coming

Everyone has stopped pretending: Vitesse will make the call about Joris van Overeem this week. Utrecht have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.

Loan watch

Tijn den Boggende has seen enough of Bolton Wanderers

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Utrecht, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.

The dugout

Vasilis Barkas gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Vasilis Barkas is on it.

Looking ahead

A reunion for Davy van den Berg

He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Zwolle in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.

The dugout

Alonzo Engwanda has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Alonzo Engwanda has written the date down.

In brief

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The Utrecht Gazette

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Yoann Cathline runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

Up for the corner, and Gjivai Zechiël delivers — 7.95

Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Gjivai Zechiël scored, was marked 7.95, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.

Squad

Defences have started doubling up on Marius Broholm

16 goals and a season average of 7.39 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

Squad

Words at Utrecht training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Aschraf El Mahdioui is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Match

Gjivai Zechiël’s goal not enough for Utrecht

Gjivai Zechiël scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Twente, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Squad

Utrecht count the cost of losing Justin Eversen

60 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

The dugout

Jesper Karlsson gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Loan watch

Noa Dundas wants to come home

“I did not go to Zwolle to sit and watch. I want to come back to Utrecht and fight for my place.” 4 appearances in 19 matches say the rest.

The dugout

Joel Janssen faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Joel Janssen after 1‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

In brief