Santiago Gimenez He was reunited with the goal this Sunday during the overwhelming victory achieved by Feyenoord against Zwolle (5-0) with which the Mexican attacker’s team finished saying goodbye to the dream of fighting for the title in the Eredivisie.
A few hours after The PSV Eindhoven of also Mexican Hirving “Chucky” Lozano becomes champion of the Dutch competition Thanks to their victory against Sparta Rotterdam (4-2) it was the turn of Feyenoord and “Bebote” who were finally able to put an end to their scoring drought.
The Mexican attacker did it in a stellar way by scoring a double and giving an assist to become the great offensive figure of his team on matchday 32 of the Netherlands championship. After starting the game as a substitute and entering the 65th minute, it didn’t take him long to make himself felt.
The first of the Mexican player’s scores came via penalty (m.67) to put the match 3-0 in favor of the Rotterdam team, which had already taken the lead thanks to the goals of the Japanese attacker Ayase Ueda ( m.33) and the Croatian Luka Ivanusec (m.41).
With 10 minutes to go, “Bebote” was in charge of giving the pass to the Dutch Lutsharel Geertruida to increase the advantage and just two minutes later the Mexican shook the nets again with a shot from inside the area after scoring a goal. pair of Zwolle defenders.
In just 25 minutes Santiago Giménez earned merits to become the figure of his team. The attacker trained at Cruz Azul, who had seven games without goals, completed a very good performance in which he had five shots of which three were on goal and two ended in goals.
With these two scores Santiago Giménez reached 23 goals in the Netherlands championship, keeping him close to the tournament’s top scorers, the Dutch Luuk de Jong of PSV Eindhoven and the Greek Vangelis Pavlidis of AZ Alkmaar, both with 27 so many.
Despite having had several offensive droughts throughout this season, the Mexican remains in the fight among the scorers of the championship in which there are still a couple of matches left for the “Bebote” to seek to equal or even surpass the leaders in this department.
Today may be one of Santiago Giménez’s last games in front of the Feyenoord fans, since the Mexican is the protagonist of intense rumors about his possible departure from the team for next season. His team’s next match is away against NEC Nijmegen and they close the campaign at home against Excelsior.
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