The Vitesse Sentinel
Match27 Nov 2027
Elias Huth leads the rout of VVV-Venlo
4‑1, and Elias Huth took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Vitesse tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Player ratings29 Nov 2027
A brace, and Ercan Kara takes the afternoon — 9.43
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Ercan Kara provided it, and the 9.43 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings29 Nov 2027
Both of them Elias Huth's — 8.47
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.47, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
The dugout29 Nov 2027
Sem Yvel says Vitesse went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad29 Nov 2027
The step up is real for Mohamed Abdellah
At 19 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
The dugout29 Nov 2027
No hiding place for Valon Zumberi
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Valon Zumberi, and the manager let it.
Squad29 Nov 2027
Youssef Ouallil stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Youssef Ouallil and Vitesse agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad29 Nov 2027
Ricardo-Felipe Schwarz 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 Vitesse this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout29 Nov 2027
A satisfied Jeroen De Vrij
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 4‑1, Jeroen De Vrij could afford to be generous.
In brief
- Squad A row about effort at Vitesse
- The dugout Mory Konaté knocks on the manager’s door
- Looking ahead Sami Ouaissa faces his old club