GVVV Feenendaal and RKVV Volendam met in the Tweede Divisie Regular Season on Saturday, and the visitors left with nothing despite taking an early lead. The final score read 3:2 to the hosts, a result that keeps them rooted in the lower reaches while giving Volendam a point they could ill afford to lose.
And here's the thing about the opening exchanges — Volendam struck first when Q. Veenhof found the net in the nineteenth minute. It felt like a breakthrough, but the hosts responded without panic. A. Yadir levelled things up before half-time, and by then the match had settled into something more open, more chaotic.
The second half brought the momentum shift. P. Plugboer put GVVV ahead in the fifty-first minute, and Yadir doubled his tally three minutes later to give the home side breathing room. Volendam pushed back, but the hosts played the second half a man up in terms of confidence. The old head settled them down when pressure mounted, and they didn't let the game slip.
The drama extended into stoppage time. K. Hillen headed an own goal in the ninetieth minute plus two, sealing the victory for Feenendaal. There were substitutions throughout — B. van Essen and A. van Soest came on together in the sixty-fifth, while Volendam brought on three players at the seventy-third mark. Nothing changed the outcome, but the game never went quiet.
The numbers tell a different story. GVVV dominated possession at 67 per cent and registered 108 attacks compared to 102 for Volendam. The visitors had more corners, seven to one, and more shots on target — seven against six — but couldn't convert the edge in territory. Expected goals would favour the visitors, but the result says otherwise.
For GVVV, the win lifts them to five points from five games, though they remain seventeenth. Volendam sit ninth with nine points from six matches, and this draw extends their unbeaten run to four games. They fancy their chances of pushing higher, but consistency will be the test.
