{"id":68411,"date":"2017-03-20T15:25:18","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T14:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/2017\/03\/20\/spektakelstuk-tussen-antibarbari-en-vuc-eindigt-onbeslist\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:22:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:22:40","slug":"spektakelstuk-tussen-antibarbari-en-vuc-eindigt-onbeslist-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2017\/03\/20\/spektakelstuk-tussen-antibarbari-en-vuc-eindigt-onbeslist-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Spectacular Antibarbari-VUC match ends in a draw"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Captain Roy Kerner hugs goal-scoring Robin Ringelenberg after 2-2 equaliser. <\/span><\/p>

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Two days before the match, Antibarbari\u2019s regular goalie Riley Basoski slipped on his way to the gents during a night on the town. Something of a \u2018windfall\u2019 for Rinke van den Berg, the goalkeeper of the second team. Van den Berg could be found manning the goal during the VUC game. Still, he had to let three balls through \u2013 in part due to a bungling Antibarbari defence. But the students of the \u2018Flagship\u2019 netted three points too, so that this tense match on the wind-swept \u2018Antibarbello\u2019 pitch ultimately ended in a draw.<\/p>\n

Antibarbari\u2019s performance has been a bit shaky these past few weeks, but the team still has its sight trained on a spot in the Second Class D sub-top. While the Rotterdammers hold eighth in the ranking, they are only six points down from the runners-up. A victory against competitors VUC (fourth place) from The Hague would have been more than welcome, in other words.<\/p>\n

One eye<\/h3>

The Rotterdammers treated the spectators \u2013 many of whom cheered on the team with a beer in their hand, and one eye on the Dutch premier league match that was going on at the same time \u2013 to a messy start. A mistake in Antibarbari\u2019s defence saw VUC scoring the opening goal.<\/p>\n

And it didn\u2019t take long before the Antibarbari goalie had to fish another ball out of the net. After the umpteenth misunderstanding in the home team\u2019s defence, they were down 0-2 within half an hour.<\/p>\n

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Antibarbari\u2019s Reimer Leunis is pulled by his shirt.<\/span><\/p>

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Catch-up goal<\/h3>

But the other side mucked up quite a lot too. Meaning that near the end of the first half, Jesse Owie could take advantage of an error by VUC\u2019s goalkeeper.<\/p>\n

This catch-up goal revived the team\u2019s spirits, and in the final 20, Antibarbari started putting on the heat. The equaliser came 15 minutes before the final whistle: Robin Ringelenberg cashed in a tight pass with a header.<\/p>\n

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Robin Ringelenberg cheering after scoring a 2-2 header. <\/span><\/p>

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Wind<\/h3>

Two minutes later, the party was over when the wind blew the ball into the home team\u2019s goal. But in the final stage of the match, the Antibarbari supporters once again had cause for celebration: the VUC goalie decided to let a ball roll \u2013 allowing Davey Ravestein to tap in the 3-3.<\/p>\n

According to equaliser Ravestein, the result wasn\u2019t so much determined by the absence of the team\u2019s regular goalkeeper as by the weather: \u201cIn the second half we had the wind in our backs, which made things a lot easier.\u201d While the 24-year-old medical student isn\u2019t particularly pleased with the draw, he can live with it. \u201cAfter being so far behind, we can be happy to end with 3-3,\u201d is how he puts it.<\/p>\n\n\t

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