The Sparta Rotterdam Chronicle
Squad23 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Filip Bednarek out for 94 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Sparta Rotterdam will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market23 Nov 2026
Jonathan de Guzmán hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Sparta Rotterdam can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Shunsuke Mito runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match21 Nov 2026
Nobody wins at Sparta Rotterdam
9 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
Squad23 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Sparta Rotterdam
Lance Duijvestijn and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The terraces23 Nov 2026
The crowd has taken to Milan Zonneveld
At 23 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.
Match21 Nov 2026
Lance Duijvestijn sends Sparta Rotterdam past PSV
It finished 2‑0, and it was Lance Duijvestijn’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Sparta Rotterdam.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Sparta Rotterdam count the cost of losing Youri Schoonderwaldt
53 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Lance Duijvestijn was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.23. 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 Milan Zonneveld was on a different afternoon to everybody else
- The dugout Ryan Dost: “That is the standard”
- The dugout When it matters, Lance Duijvestijn plays