The Utrecht Gazette
Match11 Nov 2026
Utrecht through in the cup
A 2‑0 win over ADO Den Haag, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Shedrach Ebite, 20, steals the show — 8.25
Marked 8.25 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.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Artem Stepanov keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Utrecht may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Marius Broholm is the real thing at 21
A season average of 7.34 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. Utrecht know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Utrecht
Alonzo Engwanda 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Vasilis Barkas 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.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Yoann Cathline 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 terraces16 Nov 2026
The crowd has taken to Ángel Alarcón
At 22 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.
Match14 Nov 2026
Yoann Cathline sends Utrecht past Willem II
It finished 1‑0, and it was Yoann Cathline’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Utrecht.
In brief
- Player ratings Oualid Agougil shuts the door
- Player ratings Yoann Cathline was the difference for Utrecht
- The dugout Donny Strootman: “That is the standard”