A New Era in Dutch Football - Vitesse

October



While riding on a high from the Bayern result we welcomed Feyenoord who are a point a head of us in the league so we needed a result. They were ahead at half time meaning we really went through the lads at half time and a 2 goals in 2 minutes was the difference thanks to Perez and van Grinkel. We then got a good result against Ajax as both teams were defensively sound. We weren't able to beat Olympiakos away from home but a point is good away from home. Buitink put us ahead twice but we weren't able to hold on.

Back to the national games and we grind out a tough result against Emmen with Buitink finally getting back on the score sheet in the league again with the end goal coming from Sergio Gomez. The big talking point of the month though comes in the first round of the cup. We rotate the squad a bit here and Tom Cohen is given his first start for the club and he goes ad bags himself a hat-trick. He can go on to great things it seems from the early signs.the other goals came from Perez, Gilmour and Bella-Kotchap.

League



November

November



We have a nice mix this month between League matches and Champions League. We start off against league rivals AZ who we dominate and go in at half time 4-0 up thanks to Unuvar, Schiappacasse and Buitink. We then welcome Olympiakos where Gilmour and Buitink give us the 3 points to give us a chance of getting in the top 2. Perez and Gomez get us the goals in the 2nd half against FC Groningen to keep our chase going on Ajax. Against FC Twente Unuvar gets the only goal of the game in the final minute of the first half.

We welcome Atletico in the Champions League and they just blow us away as we have no answer to us. It means we will need a win in our final game to progress in the Champions League but we are guarenteed 3rd so we will still be in Europe after Christmas. In the final game of the month against Zwolleit takes a final minute winner from Gomez to secure the 3 points.

Buitink is really struggling so far this season but seems to save his performances for the big games which is always handy.

League



December

December



We have a good month and get off to a winning start against Feyenoord when Bella-Kotchap and Cohen get the goals. Against Bayern we were so close to getting a draw but Bella-Kotchap scores a horrendous own goal in the 92nd minute to hand Bayern the 3 points. You wouldn't of wanted to come up against us in the next game as we had a point to prove and NAC Breda were unfortunate it was them as Alvaraz and Majer both got a brace with Buitink, van Ginkel and Urzi getting in on the action as well.

In the cup we were able to rotate the team a bit to give people a run out and we had 5 different scorers as Hajek got a brace with Unuvar, Gilmour and Alvarez getting the rest. Against Ajax we made sure they weren't able to increase their lead at the top as we managed to hold them to a respectable goalless draw. Against Fortuna Sittard Cohen took his chance again as he had us 2-0 up after just 4 minutes with Urzi adding another 2 before half time.

League



Champions League



We can be very proud of this table given if we'd won our final game then we would of gone through instead of Bayern thanks to the head to heads but we drop down into the Europa League instead where we have been drawn against Dortmund.

January



New Signing

With our world class youth facilities at the club we needed to bring somebody in who can take our intake to the next level so welcome our new Head of Youth Development Bryan Klug



Youth



It looks like we could have our self another couple of decent players coming through that might be able to follow Cohen into the first team.

January



We come back after the winter break raring to go and we face FC Emmen in the cup and we put out a strong team for this one and Alvarez, Buitink, Unuvar and Schiappacasse get us the 4 goals to see us progress to the Quarter Finals. We follow that up with a big game against PSV where Buitink got both goals either side of a goal from Gakpo for a big win. Buitink seems to have found his scoring boots again as he bags another brace against Go Ahead Eagles to get us off to a good start before Unucar, Majer and Bella-Kotchap add to the total as well. The match against FC Groningen was our hardest of the month as we struggled to a 1-0 victory thanks to a goal from Alvarez.

League



Thanks to Feyenoord beating Ajax we have now closed the gap to 1 point s we have them firmly in our sights.

February



Transfers Out



There are no big surprises here as we sell off a number of players from the B team along with Tomas Hajek who has fallen down the pecking order this season so we are happy to cash in on him while we get a decent fee for him.

Transfers In



We have been scouring the transfer market to bring in bargains that will improve our squad and let us sell them for a profit when we secure better players. Arezo is a player we had agreed a deal with during the summer. Aleana was transfer listed by Barcelona and with Gilmour's loan ending in the summer then we needed somebody to come in to step up and replace him. The rest of the players that have come in are young and our scouts have done an excellent job in finding them. 3 of them we are hoping will e come first team players and I will introduce you to them below.

Jorge Nunez is a LB from Paraguay who will provide back up to Lato with the view of taking over in a year or two.



Diego Velazquez is an exciting keeper from Argentina who already looks like he can be our first team keeper and will be given chances over the rest of the season with the aim of being No.1 next season



Bryan Ayovi as young Ecuadorian CB who already has 2 international caps who will hopefully get the training required to turn him into a world class player.