Quick Boys made a statement at home on Saturday, running out 5-0 victors over RKAV Volendam in the opening round of the Tweede Divisie regular season. The result leaves the hosts top of the table with a perfect start, while Volendam find themselves eight places down after dropping points. And here's the thing about matches like this — you don't need a full ninety minutes to see where the game was going.
K. Slor opened the scoring in the fifth minute, a quiet start that belied what followed. By then, Volendam looked like they were playing a different match entirely, and to be fair, the visitors never really found their footing. K. van Mil doubled the lead just before the quarter-hour mark, and suddenly the home side had hit a wall of confidence. Volendam's goalkeeper saw it out of the box from the first goal — nine shots on target against zero for the visitors tells you everything.
L. de Beste picked up a yellow card in the thirty-fourth minute, a moment that coincided with Quick Boys turning it around after the break. The substitutions came thick and fast — G. Vlak, I. Boudouni, A. Sout, R. Tol, S. Veerman all making their appearances. By then, the high line was picked apart repeatedly, and Volendam's defenders got dragged out of position time and again. The scoreboard kept ticking over.
Slor ended a barren spell with his second goal in the fifty-fourth minute, and N. Broekhuizen added a fifth just before the hour. The statistics don't lie — 130 attacks to 86, nine shots on target to none. Quick Boys kept knocking on the door until Volendam's resolve crumbled completely. S. Schokker collected two yellow cards in the closing stages, a reflection of frustration rather than the match itself.
Four games, four wins, twelve points — Quick Boys sit at the summit with something to prove. Volendam drop to eighth place after two wins, one draw and a defeat, a result that and here's the thing doesn't change the fundamental problem. The pitch cut up badly in places, but that's no excuse for the performance. Quick Boys saw it out with authority, and the table will reflect that for a while to come.
