The Vitesse Sentinel
Squad21 Dec 2037
A knee injury of the worst kind for Donny De Roon
18 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Vitesse lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad21 Dec 2037
A one-man rearguard from Kyrylo Fesiun
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Player ratings21 Dec 2037
Age has not caught Axel Kouamé yet — 8.74
At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.74 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad21 Dec 2037
Issac Dijkhuizen keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Vitesse may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Player ratings21 Dec 2037
Deacon van der Klaauw runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad21 Dec 2037
Axel Kouamé 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.
Match19 Dec 2037
Vitesse leaking at the back
5 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.
Match19 Dec 2037
Vitesse find a way past ADO Den Haag
ADO Den Haag made Vitesse work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑2 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings21 Dec 2037
Nicholas Callarà was on a different afternoon to everybody else
9.02. 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.
In brief
- Player ratings Nino Zonneveld keeps on missing
- Boardroom The Vitesse production line keeps running
- Market Vitesse put Denzel Strootman up for sale