SC Heerenveen

NEC were one of those teams that played on Saturday.

They lost 1-0 at SE Heerenveen, a goal through Dylan Venter.

Heerenveen played some nice stuff at times coming forwards.

I caught the second half of this one.

But I just think that Heron Bay could score so many more goals if they had some really good finishes to the ball.

You've had-- This will be your second Belgian Football Podcast recording of the week.

We sat down last week with Norhan Cortens, uh, from Heerenveen in the Eredivisie, but he has a, yeah, a past in the Belgian Pro League, having come through a couple of the academies before deciding to move over to the Netherlands to play football under a certain Robin Veldman, who lots of people will remember.

So if you haven't checked it out, it's about 25 minutes, so a nice kind of easy one to fit in on a lunch break or commute or something like that.

So please do check it out if you haven't done so yet.

Let's get in w- to it then.

PSV 2, Heerenveen nil kicked off this weekend after three weeks off with an international break.

Um, I, I, I am an Heerenveen fan, Abdul.

You are, you are a massive Heerenveen fan, but I've gotta say, I, I just miss club football so much and I've enjoyed the Eredivisie being back.

Um, I know you watched this one, and PSV got themselves quite, quite, what it looked like from the highlights for me, uh, quite a routine win.

Gustil scored a goal having to play as a striker in the absence of three long-term injuries to PSV as strikers.

They wanted to win with no more injuries since they already have, uh, some injuries.

Uh, you mentioned the players are injured.

I, I, I, I shudder to pronounce that, James, 'cause it is, uh, four consonants in a row at the beginning.

He's been playing in Poland since 2025, uh, and he was with, uh, Heerenveen, uh, uh, in the Netherlands, uh, for three years before that, and then, uh, in Sweden.

Hussein Ali is Swedish-born, so that seems to be, uh, almost a requirement if you're a, uh, right back for Iraq.

Uh, three of the five players we've talked here, uh, are, uh, Swedish-born.

Next, we have Morten, uh, Thors- uh, Thorsby, uh, with Norway since 2017, with 31 caps and one- uh, 31 caps and no goals.

He's 30 years old, playing for, uh, uh, Cremonese in Italy since 2024, Genoa in Italy for two years before that, and, um, um, other Italian clubs, um, but also for Union Berlin in Germany from 2022 to '24, and Heerenveen in the Netherlands, uh, uh, from 2014 to '19.

Uh, Stabæk in, uh, in Norway was his youth club and his first senior club, uh, for one year before moving to the Netherlands.

Thorsby has started three of their 24 games over the period, subbed in for eight, and was on the bench for nine.