Joppe Hakstege

Striker - Zwolle
27 Feb 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Joppe Hakstege

18 Edition

The Zwolle Herald

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

13 matches without a win for Zwolle

The run now stands at 13, and the questions being asked around Zwolle are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Jasper Schendelaar stands alone

6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

The dugout

Elias Sørensen says Zwolle 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.

Squad

Words exchanged at Zwolle

Simon Graves 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.

Squad

Words at Zwolle training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Shola Shoretire 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

Zwolle cannot find the net

3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.

Squad

El Mehdi Karnass wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Zwolle can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

The dugout

Memphis Janssen on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Memphis Janssen after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

The dugout

Nick Fichtinger dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

In brief