Bas Babel

Striker - Roda
20 Nov 2028
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Process

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The Roda Post

13 Nov 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

The cup run ends for Roda

1‑2 against Utrecht, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.

Player ratings

A debut Bas Babel will not forget — 7.49

There is exactly one of these per career and it does not usually go like this. 1 on the scoresheet, 7.49 beside the name, and a crowd that had never seen him before chanting it by the end.

Player ratings

Jorg Schreuders runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Marco Tol 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 Roda this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A row about effort at Roda

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jorg Schreuders was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

Justin Treichel 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.

Squad

Masaya Tashiro is not the player he was

It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph a local paper has to write. 35 years old, 3 points down on where he was, and a body that has started charging interest on a career.

Match

Roda come up short against Almere City

Almere City left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Market

Isac Galván is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Roda has been clear about where Isac Galván stands, which is more than many ever get.

In brief