Summary: The home supporters in Helmond barely had time to learn the name of its newest British signing before it was being chanted throughout Lavans Stadion. "Marcus Diamond... Marcus Diamond... Marcus Diamond."

A new fan favourite emerged in the 6th minute, scoring the opening goal of the season — albeit stealing the shot away from one of his teammates, Arne Naudts, who was also making his debut with the club.


Naudts did notch his first goal later in the first half to regain Helmond's lead at 2-1. An 86th minute goal by Furhgill Zeldenrust sealed a season-opening win for Helmond.

Rating: 8.5 - After the game, Arne wasn't too pleased I "stole" his goal. Oh, well. The crowd still loved it and it earned me Man of the Match honors despite picking up a stupid yellow card in the second half. As long as we are winning, I think we can keep the peace in the locker room.

Player of Game: Marcus Diamond, Helmond Sport (8.5)

Summary: Heartbreak in the 91st minute. Dordrecht steals a win on a back post header by Anthony Biekman. A draw was probably deserved, but the home crowd urged Dordrecht to victory.

Rating: 6.7 - Made some key passes but nothing special. Tough loss.

Player of Game: Lance Duijvestign, FC Dordrecht (8.3)

Summary: Lavans Stadion is getting used to early goals. Nassim Amaarouk scores in the 2nd minute, but Almere City gets back-to-back second-half goals separated by three minutes to earn the come from behind win.

Rating: 6.6 - Poor performance, no excuses.

Player of Game: Arsenio Valpoort, Almere City (8.4)

Summary: FC Emmen made a mockery of Helmond Sport's defense. Helmond Sport couldn't even score under its own power and got its lone goal through an own goal. Many fans didn't even stick around to that point, as they left early to get out of the rain and/or to stop watching awful football.

Rating: 5.8 - Arguably the worst game of my career. I made so many mistakes that it probably looked like FC Emmen paid me to help them. Fatigue played a factor, but that's a lame excuse. I have to be a lot better.

Player of Game: Gregory Nelson, FC Emmen (9.2)

Summary: Helmond Sport holds on for a draw. MVV dominated throughout but couldn't finish in the final third. Lots of questions left to be answered with this Helmond side just five games into the season.

Rating: 6.6 - It's not just me struggling, it's the whole team. This isn't what I envisioned when I decided to sign here.

Player of Game: Jason Bourdouxhe, Helmond Sport (8.1)

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Summary: The morning breakaway is squeezed back with 20kms to go, right before the final two cobble sectors.


Five riders find a gap off the front thanks to the cobbles: Hugo Houle, Sergey Shilov, Nikolai Trusov and Lionel Taminiaux and Marcus Diamond. The remaining peloton is quick to keep them in their sightings. Can't let this group get away.


Once the peloton reels them, Diamond puts in an aggressive attack. He is going for solo glory with 12kms to go. Surely this is too far out, or maybe he knows something we don't. Either way, the crowd is loving it. The pre-race favourite isn't playing any games. Catch him if you can.


Too ambitious for his own good. Diamond caught with 6kms to go.


It was sunny all day, but now in the final kilometers the clouds have opened up for a brief rainstorm. Just what the riders wanted.

Diamond is somehow still leading the peloton as they come up on one kilometer to go. He is surely out of gas, but there isn't a lot of room to make a pass as they head back into the city centre.


Heroic effort by Diamond to still compete for the win, but Jan-Willem Van Schip will take the victory for Team TomTom.

Second place goes to Lionel Taminiaux — no not the one riding for EvoPro Racing, but his same named cousin on the AGO-Aqua Service roster (database bug but let's have some fun with it).

Result: 4th - Was too antsy. Could have easily won if I was just a little more patient. My bad.

Summary: History has been made! It took a team effort, but all the newspapers tomorrow will be showing the smiling face of Alex Vogel. Coming up to the line, the EvoPro Racing squad knew they had done it and peeled off one-by-one until Vogel found herself leading the TTT unit to the finish line. What a moment.

Her first official victory in the sport. Vogel did have a win voided three years ago since she rode under a false identity (under the guise of a man). But, this one can't be taken away.

Although, critics will argue it doesn't really count because it was a TTT.

Result: 1st - I was the last guy on the team to pull before Vogel brought us to the line. The look on her face was priceless. She deserved it. Can't wait to see her in yellow tomorrow. The cycling world couldn't have asked for a better ambassador to break down gender barriers in the sport.

Summary: In a field of 132 cyclists, one woman stands above the rest. An iconic moment for the sport. But, this isn't a gimmick. Alex Vogel doesn't want to just prance around in yellow. She has ambitions to hold onto it for the rest of the tour, and has a strong enough team to do so.


Breakaway swept up, the sprinters are being geared up by Liam Bertazzo with 1km to go. Vogel is in this lead group, as expected.


The one sprinter Vogel didn't want to see win finds a way. Sacha Modolo nips Nikias Arndt on the line. Those 10 bonus seconds will give the Italian the yellow jersey. Marcus Diamond nearly stole it back for EvoPro, but just missed out on bonus seconds by finishing fourth.

Result: 4th, 2nd GC - Inches away from wearing my first yellow jersey. But, I got two more days to make my move.

Summary: We pick up the action with 31kms to go. The riders hit the cobbled sector for the first of three times up the Sternberk hill.

Before the cameras were rolling today, there was a significant crash in the first 20kms. Most of the favorites got held up, but didn't take long for the peloton to regroup and reel in the BOTD.


No action the first time up. But, here we go. Rafal Majka hits the accelerator with 1km to the top of the second circuit. On his wheel are Jhonatan Narvaez, Sergey Cherkasov and Marcus Diamond.


Narvaez going for glory at the start of the third and final circuit.


Diamond tries to keep up, but gets stuck behind a lapped rider — at least that was his excuse after the race, it was fairly obvious he didn't have the legs to match. Narvaez, the Ecuador RR champion, was gone.

Fun fact, these two will be teammates at the SEG Racing Academy next season.


A group of six chasers tried to nail back Narvaez, but they ran out of time. They did however cut Narvaez's time advantage down to an 11-second gap. So, the new yellow jersey wearer going into the final stage will come from the chase group.


Result: 5th, 1st GC - Traded the white jersey for my first yellow. I don't think I could have rode this stage any better, so to get rewarded like this feels incredible. Can't let up though.

One stage to go to bring this home for the EvoPro crew. Got to do it for Alex. She protected me all day and gave up her GC chances.

Summary: Keep the race together for a bunch sprint and Marcus Diamond will win his first stage race of his career. Diamond knows this and is leading the peloton over the final hill with 5kms to go.

The 21-year-old isn't showing much interest in saving energy for the sprint finish, he is making sure nobody can get away with a late attack.


Diamond's efforts pay off.

Sprint finish goes to Sacha Modolo for his second stage win of the tour. And the yellow jersey will stay on Diamond's shoulders.


Result: 6th, 1st GC, 1st Youth - I don't even know what to say.

This is what it's all about. I've been chasing after this feeling my whole life and, now that I got a taste of it, I don't want to stop. What's up next?

Summary: A bizarre sight with 35kms to go. Marcus Diamond is getting his own bottles after his teammates failed to supply their captain with enough nutrients.

Or, hold up, maybe Diamond wants some last-minute instructions on how to tackle this final climb? He certainly doesn't look too concerned with having to drop back this late into the race.


We can now confirm it was a radio problem with Diamond. He has ripped the radio out and is now throwing everything he has at this final climb.

The youngster has to be feeling great, coming off a win and now seeing his name plastered all over the road. This two-sport athlete is starting to grow quite a fan base.


Diamond's massive attack leaves only two cyclists next to him with 1km to go: Jhojan Garcia and Metkel Eyob.


Garcia, 23, powers away for his fourth win of his young career.

Result: 2nd - Without a radio, I just rode on gut instincts. Hearing spectators chant my name was pretty cool. I even signed a few autographs after the race.

Some of my teammates are already telling me to not get sucked into the fame and notoriety. But, my "big ego" could get used to this.

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Summary: Embarrassing showing from Helmond Sport. They should be thankful this one was one the road, otherwise their home supporters would have probably booed them off the pitch.

Hat trick for Youri de Winter, his first three goals of the season.

Rating: 6.7 - The head coach didn't even bother entering the locker room after this one. This was one of those games where you just look in the mirror and ask yourself what the hell just happened. We have to be better.

Player of Game: Youri de Winter, Sparta (9.7)

Summary: From 2-up to 3-2 down, Helmond Sports salvages a roller coaster of a game with an 88th minute equalizer by Nassim Amaarouk. SC Cambuur scored all three of its goals in the 75th minute or later.

Rating: 7.3 - Scored our second goal with a well-timed run. I got to show off my speed a little bit, or the defender was just napping.


Player of Game: Osayamen Osawe, SC Cambuur (8.8)

Summary: Helmond Sport survives a late red card to earn a 0-0 tie.

Rating: 6.4 - At least we didn't give up a goal for a change.

Player of Game: Vito Wormgoor, Jong PSV (7.4)

Summary: Helmond Sport left its scoring boots at home again. A 43rd minute winner by Souffian Elkarouani puts an end to a rather boring affair.

Rating: 6.5 - Subbed off in the 80th minute since I wasn't making an impact.

Player of Game: Tibeau Swinnen, FC Eindhoven (8.4)

Summary: Helmond Sport can't find the back of the net for a third straight game. It's getting comical now. They outshot FC Eindhoven 12-7 (3-3 on target) but give up two more goals to Souffian Elkarouani and knock in an own goal for good measure.

Rating: 6.4 - Subbed off at halftime. Head coach Roy Hendriksen trying to make a statement to the rest of the team. "Don't show up to play, you won't play." I'm not sure benching one of your best players is the way to go about it. I didn't sign up for this. But, who am I to complain? I haven't done anything these past three games.

Player of Game: Souffian Elkarouani, FC Eindhoven (8.8)

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Summary: Casual, stress-free day in the saddle for the peloton. No one seems that worried about the six-man breakaway up the road.


The front runners are in their sights going up the final incline. Watch out for the vegetation! That's a disaster waiting to happen, but looks like Marcus Diamond has pedaled through without a problem. He is sticking to Anthony Turgis' wheel like glue.


Matej Mohoric, the Slovenia national RR champion, has joined Diamond and Turgis in the pursuit of the morning breakaway. Who will take the most risks in a tricky downhill section to catch them and go for the win?


Mohoric! Diamond did his best to keep up but Mohoric maneuvered his bike with precision to keep the Brit behind him.

Result: 2nd - Mohoric left no gaps to pass on the downhill and found that extra kick to beat me to the line. Fair play. I'll take a second.

Summary: Survival of the fittest. Coen Vermeltfoort survives.


Result: 18th - Bad race day form and missed the most decisive split with about 25kms to go. Spent a bulk of the final kilometers playing catch up. Not a fun way to race. Even on a bad day, I should be getting a top 10.

Summary: This late into the season, a 269km hilly endurance race is a harsh punishment. But that's what we have here today in the fight for the rainbow jersey around lovely Florence, Italy.

Four brave riders try their luck in the morning breakaway:

Ruben Zepuntke (LKT Team Brandenburg) hasn't lived up to his potential. The 28-year-old is still searching for a signature win.

Matthias Brandle (UAE Team Emirates) hasn't won anything since 2016 when he became a double national champion in Austria.

Gino Mader (Astana) is being called the next Fabian Cancellara. The Swiss TT machine placed second the WC ITT race a few days ago.

Amaro Manuel Antunes (Polsak Travel) won the Gran Premio Catta di Lugano early this season. Back in 2008 as a youngster, he was a double national junior champion in the road race and time trial.


Oh no! A massive crash in the peloton on the third descent which leads to the finish line. Surely some big names involved. It happened near the front and has wiped out a chunk of the field. Some badly bruised bodies.

Looking through the torn up rider numbers, who got caught up in this devastating crash. And we have got the official number, 35 cyclists went down including the likes of Kwiatkowski, Teuns, Diamond, Vanendert, Formolo, Aru, Cort Nielsen, Nieve, Moser, Calmejane, I. Izagirre, Matthews, Stussi, Van Avermaet, Martin, Gallopin, McCarthy, Thomas and Froome.

Tough break for the host Italy, Belgium, France, Australia and Great Britain.

And news now that Chris Froome and Michael Matthews have abandoned the race.

Everyone else quickly makes it back into the peloton before the descent is over and the climb starts again. Plenty of scrapped up jerseys and bloody elbows.


With 100kms to go, four mid-race attackers have found a gap in front of the peloton: Sutterlin, Gogi, G. Izagirre and Shirshov. The peloton is about 40 seconds back with the morning breakaway 2 minutes ahead.


G. Izagirre is the last to surrender out of that group. The peloton is moving, despite being slashed down to 46 cyclists heading into the fifth climb to with 77kms remaining. Only the strong men will last today. Or, perhaps, the peloton is pushing too hard and will eventually explode to allow a chase group to pick up the pieces.


The breakaway is caught with 58kms to go. The peloton is down to 31 cyclists.


Diamond and Fuglsang can't hang on. They're dropped with 53kms to go. The peloton in front of them is slowly disintegrating with 25 riders remaining.


The peloton has realized they have been going to hard. Diamond and Fuglsang yo-yo their way back into the main group. Still 48kms to go. How any of these guys still have the legs left to pedal is beyond me. It's been an extremely fast race.


Diamond is thrown off the back again. It doesn't look like he has the willpower left to get back this time, however. 42kms to go. He will get some assistance though, as Brandle is dropped soon after and joins Diamond.


It's go time for the favourites. Attack up front with 26kms to go on the penultimate climb. Formolo leads the charge, followed by Alaphilippe and Kwiatkowski.


Over the top, it's Kwiatkowski, who was involved and that morning crash, and Valgren going clear from everybody else. The gap isn't much however, 15 to 20 seconds.


The two leaders get caught by a group of five with 1.2kms to go. But, runner-up from a season ago, Kwiatkowski saved enough energy to win the sprint for the rainbow jersey over 2020 Olympic Gold medalist Julian Alaphilippe.


Result: 47th - One spot better than last year. Improvement! Luckily I found a nice spot of green grass to crash on early in the race. The hard part was working my way back up the field. Wasted a lot of energy doing that. I'm also nowhere near peak form so I'm not too upset about finishing nine-plus minutes behind Kwiatkowski.

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Summary: Outworked, outplayed, but only a one-goal defeat. A step in the right direction for the Helmond Sport defense. However, the offense hasn't scored a goal in four games. That's a slight problem.

Rating: 6.4 - Man-marked the whole match in front of 13,000-plus spectators. I believe that's the largest crowd I've ever played in front of and I did absolutely nothing. Disheartening to say the least.

Player of Game: Gianluca Nijholt, NAC (7.6)

Summary: Rejoice the drought is over! Jordy Thomassen scores his first two goals of the season and Giovanni Hiwat adds another to lift Helmond Sport to an extremely rare lopsided victory.

Rating: 8.2 - Amazing how individual match day rating skyrocket when you play well as a team. We needed this win badly.

Player of Game: Giovanni Hiwat, Helmond Sport (9.2)

Summary: Card happy referee Martin Perez unloaded seven yellow cards and a 39th minute red card to Achilles 29' fullback Derwin Martina. Despite that, Helmond Sport narrowly hung on for a 2-1 win with both goals coming from Furhgill Zeldenrust.

Rating: 8.3 - Played in a low-driven cross from the end line that found Zeldenrust for a quality finish around the keeper for his second goal of the game.

Player of Game: Furhgill Zeldenrust, Helmond Sport (9.1)

Summary: Helmond Sport won the possession battle and equaled Go Ahead Eagles in shots, but 20-year Norwegian Finn Thorsby notched a brace. Helmond Sport deserved at least a draw for their efforts. A solid showing.

Rating: 7.0 - Did almost everything we needed to but still lost. We can't let this result change our approach or get us down going into the next match.

Player of Game: Finn Thorsby, Go Ahead Eagles (8.8)

Summary: Arne Naudts delivered an opening-goal screamer from outside the box, then was helped off with a concussion in the final minutes of the game. Not ideal, but another win for Helmond Sport.

Rating: 7.7 - Picked up a non-deserved assist off a free kick that pinballed off a couple of players and found its way to Furhgill Zeldenrust. Hey, I'll take it.

Player of Game: Arne Naudts, Helmond Sport (8.3)

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Summary: Rain halfway through the stage causes multiple crashes. It's a mess. This will only help the six-man breakaway up front.


Too much chaos for a depleted peloton to handle. Breakaway man Samuel Leroux wins his first professional race.

Result: 9th - Missed the crashes, but was order not to attack with teammate Adam Blythe up in the breakaway. They got caught with less than 2kms remaining, but Leroux managed to sneak away prior to the catch to fool the peloton and grab the win.

Summary: A pretty boring race until the end when an official's car got in the way of the bunch sprint to the line. Luckily nobody got hurt.

Result: 20th - Bad form at the end of the season.

Summary: A goal in the first minute set the tone and Helmond Sport couldn't recover, despite narrowly holding more possession throughout the contest. A result that doesn't surprise anyone.

Rating: 6.7 - Not the type of warm-up game I wanted.

Player of Game: Anthony van den Hurk, De Graafschap (9.0)

Pregame: A perfect evening for a crucial showdown between African rivals Nigeria and South Africa.

Let's set the stage before the ball gets rolling in front of 53,000-plus spectators. A win for either team clinches a spot at the 2022 World Cup in China. A draw would open the door for Algeria, getting ready to play simultaneously with our coverage in Gabon.

Everything to play for on the final day of the competition.


We are looking forward to the drama on the field. But you can't ignore the craziness of what has happened off the field for Nigeria leading into this crucial match.

The Flying Eagles made a rash decision to fire head coach Paul Aigbogun after a 2-1 friendly loss to DR Congo a month ago. Aigbogun had only been with the team for three months and helped them get to this point.

Alas, Nigeria saw the opportunity to bring in national icon Jay-Jay Okocha and took it. Time will tell if this was the right move or not.

Okocha has brought in a few new faces into the lineup. It will be interesting to see how they get on. Most notably Marcus Diamond, a British import making his debut on a massive stage. No pressure kid.

On the other side of the pitch, South Africa went 0-3 at the African Cup of Nations tournament early this summer but beat Gabon and Algeria in World Cup Qualifiers to regain morale.

Summary: Enough chatter, the opening whistle has been blown.

3' / The Flying Eagles have started strong and won't allow South Africa to even touch the ball. Constant pressure.


5' / GOAL! Marcus Diamond to Joel Obi to Kingsley Madu to Alex Iwobi for a wonderfully worked goal. The 25-year-old Arsenal winger with his eighth international goal. It's a dream start for the Flying Eagles.

16' / Nigeria is playing counter football at its finest.

17' / We have reports that Gabon, yes, Gabon has scored against Algeria. Frederic Bulot has Gabon leading 1-0.

34' / And now Gabon has scored against themselves... Own goal ties up the other match that won't have any significance if Nigeria or South Africa can pull out a win.


34' / GOAL! The scenes. I don't believe my own eyes. Marcus Diamond has scored on his debut! You can't write a script any better. He brings down Iwobi's cross with a touch of class and toe bashes the ball into the back of the net, 2-0. The crowd is going ballistic.

Jay-Jay Okocha, who has been questioned all week about bringing in a relatively unknown foreigner into the squad, now looks like a genius.

45' / We have reached halftime. Complete dominance by Nigeria. Two goals and held South Africa to one shot on target. Do you keep pushing for more or go defensive and shut up shop?

Gabon and Algeria remain tied at 1-1.

53' / Nigeria has pulled back offensively. They are happy up 2-0.

66' / Nigeria winger Moses Simon is taken off with a twisted ankle.

70' / South Africa loses a player to injury as well. 19-year-old left back Sinethemba Qalanto goes down with a groin injury.

81' / The first booking of the game. Yellow card to South Africa's Eric Mathoho. South Africa is running out of time and patience.


88' / GOAL! A near post upper-90 finish for Percy Tau. South Africa is right back in when all seemed lost.

90' / Six minutes of stoppage time announced.

93' / A controversial penalty has been called... for Algeria. Sofiane Hanni slots it and the final whistle goes soon after. Algeria escapes with a 2-1 win over Gabon. Everyone's attention now turns to the final minutes in Nigeria, where a draw would see Algeria sneak through to the World Cup.

95' / All out press from South Africa. Tau sails a shot over the goal.

96' / The final whistle. Nigeria is going to the World Cup!

The game-winning goal belongs to Marcus Diamond on his debut.



Rating: 7.1 - I'm speechless. What a game. What a moment scoring my first international goal. It hasn't even hit me yet that I will be playing in the World Cup next year. This is the best early birthday present ever.

Player of Game: Alex Iwobi, Nigeria (7.9)

Summary: Marcus Diamond needed five minutes to turn international glory into club success. A quick counter attack sees Arne Naudts head down a cross right into Diamond's path. It would have been harder to miss. Helmond Sport added a second goal in the second half and held out for a shutout.

Rating: 7.3 - Found my scoring boots.

Player of Game: Giovanni Hiwat, Helmond Sport (7.5)

Summary: Three goals in the first 37 minutes for Helmond Sport, include another tap-in for Marcus Diamond. Despite a downpour and RKC scoring first, Helmond Sport continues to climb the league table.

Rating: 8.6 - Goal No. 4 for the club and my third goal in the last three weeks. Not sure what has gotten into me, but I like it.

Player of Game: Furhgill Zeldenrust, Helmond Sport (9.0)

Summary: Fatigued or not, Helmond Sport gets absolutely embarrassed. Jong Utrecht thrashes Helmond 4-0 and outshoots them 23-4 (12-3 shots on target). Find somewhere to hide after a showing like this.

Rating: 6.1 - Honestly, I don't know what the manager was thinking. A lot of guys with tired legs, myself include, played for no reason. This beat down is on the head coach, not us. You can tell him I said that.

Player of Game: Rayan El Azrak, Jung Utrecht (9.2)

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