ERIK SAYS :

Feyenoord v NEC Nijmegen
Football: Netherlands, Eredivisie
Sunday, 2nd August 2009 - Kickoff 14:30 CET

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Feyenoord

In a season that should have brought Feyenoord back to the top of the ranking, the team tumbled down a long way last year in another very disappointing season.

Team manager Verbeek was already sacked after the winter break and after finishing on the 7th place – 25 points behind AZ Alkmaar – the team was eliminated in the play-offs for an European ticket by NAC Breda.

Feyenoord welcomed a new team manager with Been coming over from NEC and with two new defenders, Fernandez (def) and Ignjatovic (def) the leaking of goals must be put to an end.

Up front Cissé (att) was taken over from Roda JC and Feyenoord remained unbeaten in their friendly games winning their last two meetings with Sporting Lisbon (Por) (1-2) and Sampdoria (Ita) (2-0).

NEC Nijmegen

NEC finished on the 11th place last season but the team gave away a place in the European play-offs after the winter break, tumbling down in the ranking after the news came out that Been would leave to Feyenoord.

Although it has always been denied that this news was the cause of the poor results Been did manage to keep his team on the right track with also quite some internal problems.

A long list of players have left the club over the summer with the starting eleven of NEC being changed quite a bit.

The Betting Verdict

Visiting Feyenoord on Sunday won’t be the most easy game to start with and personally I would be very surprised to see NEC getting a result here but keeping in mind that this will be the first game of the season, the stakes will be low.

FIXED ODDS BETTING :

Take Feyenoord to win