FC Volendam lost hard against Jong PSV, but coach Erwin van de Looi sees room for improvement. FC Volendam is not yet 'man enough' to win dirty, according to striker Henk Veerman. The team must still make a fit unit and complete the selection. The problems of FC Volendam lie in the here and now. The team was not ready for Jong PSV after the player exodus of the previous summer. Van de Looi had hoped better. But after the start of the competition, only one conclusion could be drawn: 'Too little, it was just too little.' That the way to possible success is still long, as the recent past has shown, Van de Looi did not have a message for. He must make a fit team from his squad. And that the selection is not yet complete - especially in attack 'can still be improved' - was also reflected in Eindhoven.
A breakaway to force things in the final phase did Van de Looi not have. Only the young Jesper Tielemans, who is indeed talented, but still lacks the level of professional football. Van de Looi therefore did not want to look back into the past. 'Two years ago does not offer any guarantee,' he rejected the suggestion. The team is still below the level of earlier preparation, it pained him. 'I hope we will improve much better than we showed. I was negatively surprised, especially by our ball control. And then you come through two goals of Henk on the lead. Then you have to finish the game. There is still work to be done. A new team takes time to get in order,' he said. Henk Veerman also expressed similar words, but the captain also wanted to avoid being too negative. But that it must get better, stood for him like a pillar above water. And that goes beyond just good football, he meant. ,,That we play badly, is not interesting. You can have a bad week, that doesn’t bother me. But if you then still make it into such a game, you must give your life and finish the game. And we don’t do that. That makes the difference between being at the top or not. It doesn’t matter how you win. But if you play that badly and still make it, you must be so mature not to give it away. That is bad. We still don’t have that manliness,'
