Willem II return to the Eredivisie after another goalkeeper penalty sinks Volendam

[p]After [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/fc-volendam/6VbkuOqa/"]FC Volendam[/a] beat [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/willem-ii/6u3qag0G/"]Willem II[/a] 2-1 in Tilburg last Wednesday, the Eredivisie side had a one-goal lead to defend in their home stadium on Saturday.[/p][p]It took Willem II fewer than 20 minutes to completely erase FC Volendam's lead, as [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/baartmans-siegert/I3sHhX3S/"]Siegert Baartmans[/a] and [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/stam-finn/x069SvQQ/"]Finn Stam[/a] virtually fired the visitors into the Eredivisie.[/p][embed guid="c2319047-9736-4e9a-b7f0-1286bf22cbf0" url="https://x.com/ESPNnl/status/2058198686459363515?s=20" social-type="twitter" /][p]Suriname international [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/leliendal-yannick/Y57kMaFD/"]Yannick Leliendal[/a] evened things out over two legs with a shot from distance that blew the game wide open a couple of minutes before half-time.[/p][p]FC Volendam had a golden opportunity to at least temporarily reclaim their spot in the Eredivisie when [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/muhren-robert/ra7yHciA/"]Robert Mühren[/a] went one-on-one with [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/didillon-thomas/SSCtyyke/"]Thomas Didillon-Hödl[/a] with less than 20 minutes to go, but the retiring striker hit the post and missed a subsequent header to keep the game tense as it headed into the final minutes.[/p][h2]More penalty drama in Volendam[/h2][p]After 90 minutes weren't enough to determine who would be the 18th and final Eredivisie contestant, Mühren nearly still got his hero's send-off in the 100th minute as the Kras Stadium exploded, but it was all for nothing after Leliendal was found to have committed a foul in the build-up.[/p][p]The match went all the way to penalties after a 3-3 aggregate draw, and it were the hosts who committed the first misstep on the second go. FC Volendam were then dealt the final blow by, again, a goalkeeper - Willem II's Didillon-Hödl stepped up to take Willem II's fifth and potentially decisive penalty and buried it in the top corner, securing Willem II's return to the Eredivisie after a one-year absence.[/p][embed guid="598afbc7-04dd-475e-b104-a02164350a8f" url="https://x.com/ESPNnl/status/2058240855895421187?s=20" social-type="twitter" /][p]The penalty was the second Volendam conceded from a goalkeeper, one week after Telstar's Ronald Koeman [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/news/soccer-eredivisie-goalkeeper-scores-89th-minute-penalty-to-sensationally-keep-telstar-in-eredivisie/EN8zJhll/"]scored an 89th-minute penalty[/a] that kept Telstar in the Eredivisie instead of FC Volendam.[/p][p][b][a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/game/soccer/fc-volendam-6VbkuOqa/willem-ii-6u3qag0G/?mid=QTu8I0fU"]Check out the full match statistics on Flashscore[/a][/b][/p][image alt="Key match stats" id="e9d36d89-98c0-4f6c-9092-1f98f51866b4" credit-line="Flashscore" guid="7b2273f5-4b82-4e84-b9ec-9a3ae15dfe1f" original-width="1200" original-height="1200" /]