Marked for Yannick Eduardo
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Match19 Sep 2026
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against TOP Oss, and it could have been more.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Marked 8.11 at 20, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Jonas Jensen-Abbew and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
The terraces21 Sep 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Luka Reischl has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
A masterclass from Matěj Šín
Marked 8.38 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Calvin Berghuis, on a 3‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Evan Rottier 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.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Luka Reischl changes it off the bench
He was not in the side at half past three and he had settled it before five. Half an hour, and ADO Den Haag had a different afternoon.
Back issues
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Upbeat
Market14 Sep 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at ADO Den Haag, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.41 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at ADO Den Haag training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matěj Šín 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
VVV-Venlo made ADO Den Haag work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Matteo Waem in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at ADO Den Haag this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces14 Sep 2026
He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Matěj Šín was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.25. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
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Steady
Market31 Aug 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what ADO Den Haag can pretend not to have heard.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Jonas Jensen-Abbew was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market31 Aug 2026
He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Diogo Tomás
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Calvin Berghuis chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
Squad31 Aug 2026
No place for Jordy de Wijs in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation ADO Den Haag are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
Match29 Aug 2026
Point won or two lost for ADO Den Haag?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Vitesse? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
10 attempts, none of them in. He got into the right places all afternoon, which is the hard part, and did the easy part badly — and that is the version of a bad day a manager can live with.
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Triumph
Match15 Aug 2026
The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 90th minute. Almere City will replay every second of the added time for a week.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
$1.0M settles it between the clubs for Jamie Schuldes
Utrecht have accepted the money. What ADO Den Haag do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Matěj Šín falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
ADO Den Haag asked and OH Leuven said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Matteo Waem in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at ADO Den Haag this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match15 Aug 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Jan Žambůrek. 2‑1 against Almere City, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
At 20 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Marked 7.95. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.