Saturday and Sunday the primary closing matches within the battle for the nationwide title are on the menu. Den Bosch’s ladies are chasing their third prime prize this season, whereas Amsterdam’s males want to turn into nationwide champions for the primary time since 2012. We look forward to the primary two blistering closing days with six details.
SCHC – Den Bosch
1️⃣ Objective scoring machines
SCHC and Den Bosch are the one two ladies’s groups this season that managed to attain a minimum of 100 objectives in all competitions. Trijntje Beljaars scored the Bilthoven gamers’ a centesimal purpose final Sunday in opposition to Pinoké (1-1). At Den Bosch, Teuntje de Wit’s 2-0 within the 3-0 win over Amsterdam constituted the anniversary purpose.
Small nuance distinction: SCHC’s purpose common is increased than Den Bosch’s. Coach Gilles van Hesteren’s staff wanted 29 official video games to achieve 100, whereas the Bosch gamers have already performed 35 official video games this season.
Trijntje Beljaars cheers after the equalizer within the second semifinal duel with Pinoké. Picture: Rob Römer.
2️⃣ Matla in everlasting prime three
Den Bosch attacker Frédérique Matla has already scored 20 objectives within the playoffs in her profession. With that quantity, she is now shared third on the all-time playoff prime scorer listing, along with Ageeth Boomgaardt. Solely Maartje Paumen (36 objectives) and Mijntje Donners (28) scored extra typically within the nacompetition for the title.
Final season, Matla scored six objectives in a single playoff recreation, equaling the report held by Kim Lammers (Laren), Frederieke Grijpma (Amsterdam) and Mijntje Donners (Den Bosch).
Matla on the ball within the semifinals in opposition to Amsterdam. Picture: Bart Scheulderman.
3️⃣ Van den Heuvel and Jip Dicke life-threatening
At SCHC this season, 43 of the eighty objectives within the common season got here from subject play, greater than some other staff. Maud van den Heuvel and Jip Dicke have been the 2 most harmful attackers on Dutch fields in current months, with twelve and eleven subject objectives, respectively. At Den Bosch, proper attacker Joosje Burg made probably the most subject objectives (ten).
Maud van den Heuvel, already good for seventeen objectives in all competitions this season. Picture: Bart Scheulderman.
Kampong – Amsterdam
1️⃣ Burkhardt assure for objectives
Boris Burkhardt has emerged as a real purpose scoring machine in Amsterdam’s predominant squad in recent times. Because the begin of season 2022-2023, the 28-year-old striker accounted for 65 objectives within the common massive league, a quantity surpassed in that individual interval solely by Rotterdam attacker Jeroen Hertzberger (83) and Kampong’s Jip Janssen (82). Prior to now three seasons, Burkhardt scored 28 subject objectives and shot 33 occasions from penalty corners. Moreover, he utilized a penalty ball 4 occasions.
Amsterdam goalie Boris Burkhardt. Picture: Bart Scheulderman
2️⃣ Jip Janssen’s first at Kampong
With six objectives in two video games, Kampong defender Jip Janssen performed an absolute main position within the semifinal in opposition to Bloemendaal. By no means earlier than had a Kampong participant been so extremely profitable within the first two video games of the playoffs, or at multi function full version of the nacompetition for the title. In season 2003-2004, Xavier Reckinger was the final to attain a minimum of six objectives within the semifinals: the Belgian did so within the service of Oranje Zwart.
Janssen remains to be three objectives away from the purpose report of Remco van Wijk. He scored 9 objectives in 5 video games for Bloemendaal within the playoffs of the 1998-1999 season, an unmatched efficiency.
3️⃣ 4 mutual closing video games
Kampong and Amsterdam are dealing with one another in a closing match for the fifth time. Thrice earlier than that occurred within the playoffs of the 2017-2018 season (with Kampong because the eventual winner in a best-of-three) and as soon as within the Euro Hockey League. Within the 2015-2016 season, Kampong gained that European pleasant in Barcelona 2-0 by objectives by Quirijn Caspers and Constantijn Jonker. Present Kampong gamers Lars Balk, Jip Janssen, Sander de Wijn, Boet Phijffer and David Harte had been additionally in attendance on the time. So was Robbert Kemperman, however he now performs for Amsterdam.