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FC Twente hand ADO Den Haag some more
trouble
Sunday 30 November 2008
FC Twente beat ADO Den Haag 1-2
yesterday, but the result by no means illustrates the
quality difference between the two sides.
The win means Twente move back
into the top 5 whereas Den Haag can not seem top stop
their free fall down the table and they now find themselves
in the relegation zone after their seventh successive
defeat.
FC Twente were 1-0 up at half-time,
but it should have been 4-0 for McClaren's troops.
Den Haag were a mouse in the lion's
den as the team that beat Heerenveen 6-0 last week were
all over them.
The Tukkers again could have made
it a big score, especially since they went up early
in the game from a Theo Janssen free kick.
But missing chances seems to be
Twente's specialty this season as Perez, Eljero Elia
and Marko Arnautovic missed chances you simply can not
miss.
After the break the visitors went
on where they left it before as Blaise N'Kufo and Ronnie
Stam messed up to more great possibilities.
The latter had no one but the goal
line to beat, but even failed at that.
ADO Den Haag in the meantime were
a sorry lot, succeeding in nothing else but back passes
to their goal keeper who would then give the ball away
via a long clearance.
As Twente had to fear no danger
of Den Haag they slowly fell asleep and only came back
to life again when ADO scored an equalizer out of the
blue in the 77th minute.
ADO were hoping for a miracle but
Twente would have nothing of it.
A minute after the equalizer N'Kufo
squandered another big chance but Marko Arnautovic did
score the winner for his side straight after N'Kufo's
miss.
So Twente did gain the well deserved
three points in the end but Steve McClaren will be wondering
just how he can get his team to make more of the shipload
of chances his team keep missing every week.
First of all McClaren was happy
about the victory though: "This is a good start
of a week in which we will play Schalke 04 in the UEFA
Cup. It seemed we would be punished for missing so many
chances against ADO, but fortunately Arnautovic prevented
that."
ADO Den Haag - FC Twente 1-2
0-1 09' T. Janssen
1-1 76' L. Resodihardjo
1-2 80' M. Arnautovic
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