Bilić, are you watching? ‘Busquets from Nijmegen’ rushes to the Champions League

He played all 120 minutes of NEC’s historic 2-1 victory over Olympiakos, with which the club from Nijmegen reached the play-offs of the Champions League. After the match, Dutch ESPN declared him the player of the match, and Voetbal International gave him 8.5, the highest rating along with the Serbian fantasist. Dušan Tadića.

– The numbers explain why: 113 touches with the ball, 71/90 accurate passes, 12 won balls, five clearances, two intercepted balls and eight wins from 14 duels. Nejašmić was insuredč behind the power and craziest attacking idea currently in Dutch football – the same Offensive.

They add yes Dick Schreuderov NEC nominally plays a 3-4-2-1 system, but that designation says little about what happens on the pitch.

– His defensive players themselves reject the name “wing-back” and claim that they are actually wings, while NEC with two control and two offensive midfielders often creates “four players” in the middle. In the attack, there are regularly six men high, after losing the ball they immediately start aggressive gegenpressing, and last season they led the Eredivisie in terms of the number of high ball wins. This kind of football leaves a huge space behind the defenders and that’s exactly why Nejašmi’s role is so important – they explain.

The Dutch recognized this long before the rematch with Olympiakos. ForzaNEC declared him the club’s best player last season according to average ratings, and former Dutch national team player Marciano Vink said after the first match with the Greeks that Nejašmi he can play in Ajax, PSV or Feyenoord.

The Dutch media called him “Busquets from Nijmegen”, but Nejašmić remained modest.

– Thank you, but I’m a bit of a different game. – said Nejašmić who arrived in NEC for free from UAE club Sharjah, after Hajduk and Osijek.