Groningen only need one half against Sparta

Saturday 25 October 2008

FC Groningen have shrugged off the clumsy defeat in Amsterdam of last week in a much impressive way against Sparta Rotterdam: 3-0.

The team of coach Ron Jans showed no mercy in a packed Euroborg Stadium and scored three in the first half hour to beat Sparta 3-0.

With NAC Breda playing tomorrow Groningen are top of the table again for at least 24 hours.

The Rotterdammers won their first league game last week by beating FC Utrecht (1-0), but FC Groningen are of a different caliber than Utrecht and they have their ranking to show for it.

Sparta were unable to deal with Groningen's mobile forward line with Petter Andersson, Marcus Berg and Berry Powel and also didn't have an answer to the very offensive midfielder Goran Lovre.

Twice could Lovre reach the byline and twice a goal was the result.

Berg's goal for 3-0 just underlined the quality difference a little more.

So coach Jans could be happy about his teams performance that showed they weren't hung over from last week's defeat at Ajax.

Because of a busy schedule this week Groningen took it easy after their third goal but even then they had a handful of chances to increase the score.

For Sparta there seems to be little hope to get out of the relegation zone any time soon and their decent performance of last week seems to be an incident.