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Dortmund spoil Feyenoord-party
Saturday 02 August 2008
Borussia Dortmund spoiled Feyenoord's
centennial party yesterday by beating a much weakened
homeside 1-2.
The Germans though should have
scored many more than just the two.
As part of the celebrations around
Feyenoord's 100 years anniversary the Dutch club organized
a tournament with the three clubs they have ever played
a European final against: Celtic,
Tottenham
Hotspurs and Borussia
Dortmund.
Sadly Feyenoord have been a struggling
club since their last European success (2002) and even
though they seem to be on the way up again, Feyenoord's
fans seemed only mildly interested in the club's jubilee.
When Tottenham and Celtic walked
onto the pitch for their opening match only some 20,000
people manned the stands to be joined by another 10,000
when the main attraction kicked of.
Feyenoord's coach Gert-Jan Verbeek
had to do without many of his strongest players.
Roy Makaay and Jonathan De Guzman
are away with the Dutch Olympic squad and Jon-Dahl Tomasson,
Kevin Hofland, Karim El Ahmadi, Andwele Slory, Theo
Lucius and (the recovering) Ron Vlaar are injured, the
latter sitting on the bench though.
Much came down on the shoulders
of the older part of the squad: Giovanni van Bronckhorst,
Danny Landzaat and Michael Mols.
Especially the defense around Serginho
Greene suffered during the opening stages, but it till
was a blow when the Germans scored by Polish forward
Blaszczykowksi in the sixth minute.
Inspired by the young talents Georginio
Wijnaldum and Diego Biseswar Feyenoord then took the
initiative and managed to equalize shortly before the
break.
After the break Feyenoord tried
to create more, but the German defense stood firm, while
their offensive team mates wasted a handful of chances.
In the 78th minute Hille converted
a good Sahin-pass to give the Borussen a chance
to win the tournament when they face Tottenham in the
final on Sunday.
Feyenoord coach Verbeek was mildly
positive after the game, in which youngsters Kermit
Erasmus and Michal Janota got some playing time towards
the end, but not enough to get an idea of their added
value.
Tottenham, the former team of Martin
Jol beat Scottish Celtic 2-0 earlier.
The English victory was fully deserved.
Feyenoord - Borussia Dortmund (Dui)
1-2 (1-1).
5. Blaszczykowski 0-1, 41. Wijnaldum 1-1, 78. Hille
1-2.
Lineups:
Feyenoord: Timmer; Buijs, Greene, Bahia en De Cler (56.
Fer); Wijnaldum, Landzaat (87. Janota), Van Bronckhorst
en Bruins (46. Hofs); Mols (71. Erasmus) and Biseswar.
Borussia Dortmund: Weidenfeller; Owomoyela (46. Hille),
Kovac, Hummels en Dede; Blaszczykowksi, Hajnal (61.
Kruska), Kehl en Kringe (77. Sahin); Sadrijaj (69. Federico)
and Petric (46. Valdez).
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