The Heracles Sentinel
Match11 Nov 2026
The cup run ends for Heracles
0‑1 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Fabian de Keijzer keeps Heracles in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match14 Nov 2026
6 matches without a win for Heracles
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Heracles are no longer polite ones.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Rhys Bozinovski: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Heracles have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Yvandro Borges Sanches 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Kaiki 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 Heracles this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
A masterclass from Luka Kulenović
Marked 8.44 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Jan Žambůrek in the eights
A performance of 8.46 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
A masterclass from Naci Ünüvar
Marked 8.24 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
In brief
- Match Honours even between Heracles and Feyenoord
- Squad The manager makes an example of Mike te Wierik
- Market Thomas Kok joins Heracles on a free