Nintendogeneratie 5 - 0 Nazdrovia (374878757)

Overcast weather free of rain made for a crowd turnout of 9485 at Regenton today. Palle Fausing was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Olli-Pekka Rauman and Nick Cockx. Nintendogeneratie had chosen a strategic 3-5-2 formation. Starters: Linssen - Bernlef, de Houtman, Terán - Timmerman, Leuven, Bouley, Sisemunda, van der Spiegel - Hollanders, van Spronsen.

A 4-4-2 alignment was the formation of choice for Nazdrovia. The following players had been chosen: Gilsing - Sonneveld, Bakhuis, Vanenburg, Nooteboom - Vanenburg, van Heusden, Koolmoes, Wiegersma - Kunstenaar, Nieuwenweg.

After 10 minutes, E. van Spronsen came in from the right, feinted, then sped past the off-balance defender to make the score 1 - 0, giving Nintendogeneratie the lead. C. de Houtman could have put Nintendogeneratie up one more, but he fired into the side netting after breaking free on the left after 16 minutes. After several obvious shirt pulling incidents, D. van der Spiegel got himself booked. The manager of Nintendogeneratie was not happy. Nazdrovia's R. Bakhuis left the field after 37 minutes because of a nasty blow to the shin. His replacement was T. Coenen. The Nintendogeneratie free kick 40 minutes into the match seemed wasted, as the shot was both short and off target. But was this actually a plan? The ball landed at the feet of H. Timmerman, who was completely unmarked in the box. That's 2 - 0! Nazdrovia had to make a substitution after 41 minutes. T. Coenen limped off the field and was replaced by D. Lenders. With 42 minutes played, Nintendogeneratie put themselves up 3 - 0 when the visiting defenders lost the ball to G. Hollanders, who came up from the left and proceeded to coolly round the keeper and knock the ball home. After this, you could see that the players of Nintendogeneratie were more interested in killing time than scoring more goals. Halftime score was 3 - 0. Nintendogeneratie had most of the ball, with 78 percent of possession.

E. van Spronsen could have increased the lead after 61 minutes, but his shot hit the post after a nice combination in the middle of the park. The head of L. Leuven connected with a corner kick after 78 minutes, and the ball ended up with E. van Spronsen of Nintendogeneratie who blasted the ball into the net, making the score 4 - 0. L. Leuven had a fantastic opportunity to put Nintendogeneratie up another goal 82 minutes into the match, but he fired just over the crossbar. 83 minutes in, Nazdrovia's W. Kunstenaar received a yellow card for going into a challenge studs first. After 84 minutes, Nintendogeneratie raised their score by one when D. van der Spiegel's dangerous low cross was cleverly tucked in at the near post by E. van Spronsen. 5 - 0. That made three goals for E. van Spronsen and he was marked down for the hat trick. E. van Spronsen should probably have put his team up another goal after 87 minutes, but some great goalkeeping by J. Gilsing kept the visitors in the game. Nintendogeneratie put in a good effort on the right, but H. Timmerman saw his volley fly wide of the mark 87 minutes into the game. 88 minutes were showing on the scoreboard when Nintendogeneratie's D. van der Spiegel received his second yellow card and was sent off. Possession in this half belonged to Nintendogeneratie, who controlled the ball 76 percent of the time.

The most dominating Nintendogeneratie player was without a doubt H. Timmerman. However, W. Linssen made a disastrous appearance. Nazdrovia's best player was W. Wiegersma. J. Gilsing was a disappointment, however. The match ends 5 - 0.