The Vitesse Sentinel
Match24 Oct 2026
11 matches without a win for Vitesse
The run now stands at 11, and the questions being asked around Vitesse are no longer polite ones.
Match26 Oct 2026
Vitesse sink to position 18
2 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Match24 Oct 2026
8 matches without a goal for Vitesse
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 8 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Vitesse
Aaron Spetale 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
A bad afternoon for Vitesse against Heracles
0‑2 to Heracles, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad26 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Connor van den Berg
“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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Alexander Büttner is still paying for one afternoon at Vitesse
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Chiel Olde Keizer 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.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Alexander Büttner will replay that one
1 error, one goal, and a night in front of the same three seconds. He will see it tonight, tomorrow and probably in February, and everybody who has played knows exactly which frame he keeps stopping on.
In brief
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Yuval Ranon
- Player ratings The referee tires of Hylke van der Mast