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Twente vs Heracles Match Preview
“This not just another match for us”, Hercales coach Peter Bosz said about the derby at FC Twente on Wednesday. At home Heracles drew 0-0 against the title holders, who restart well after they were blown away 6-2 at sc Heerenveen in their last league match before the winter break.Twente overcame their frustration with a 5-0 Cup win against Vitesse just before Christmas. Coach Michel Preud’homme will hope to have Bryan Ruiz back in his squad on Wednesday. The Costa Rican striker was absent due to a knee injury in December. He recovered well, but it’s not sure whether he’ll be able to play on Wednesday. Twente’s top striker Mark Janko will probably not be available yet. The Austrian forward suffers from a groin injury.
Twente had a training camp in Spain during the winter break and played two friendlies, losing 4-1 against 1.FC Kaiserslautern en drawing 1-1 against Hoffenheim. Heracles travelled to Turkey, where the won a friendly against Gençlerbirligi (2-0) and drew against Turkish champions Bursaspor (2-2).
Twente vs Heracles Match Report
FC Twente closed in on PSV with a convincing 5-0 win against neighbours Heracles Almelo in the postponed derby on Wednesday. The gap between the second ranked title holders and the current league leaders is only one point.Mark Janko was the big man in Enschede scoring four times (4’, 45’+2’, 60’, 70’) and thus equalizing the Eredivisie record for an Austrian player. Kurt Welzl scored four times for AZ’67 versus Sparta in 1980. Luuk de Jong (39’) added to the tally to hand Twente their biggest ever Eredivisie victory in the derby versus Heracles. USA international Oguchi Onyewu made his debut and thus became the first American to play for Twente in the Eredivisie.
Coach Michel Preud’homme was satisfied. “It would be too much to say that we dominated throughout the match, but we were concentrated and we struck at the right moments. That’s very important.”