Robin van Persie’s teaching debut resulted in defeat as Heerenveen misplaced 1-0 of their opening recreation of the brand new Eredivisie season to 36-time champions Ajax.

Van Persie, who had beforehand managed at Feyenoord’s academy, noticed his facet unable to get well from Kristian Hlynsson’s purpose on the stroke of half-time.

The previous Manchester United striker noticed his facet handle an anticipated objectives (xG) of 0.39 from their seven photographs on course, however believed his facet deserved one thing from the encounter.

“Primarily based on the whole match, there may need been extra in it,” Van Persie stated shortly after the full-time whistle.

“We had a number of probabilities within the first half. We had hoped that one among them would have gone in and created a bit extra perception.

“Within the second half, you might see our intentions however we didn’t actually create any probabilities.

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With per week to organize for his or her first house in opposition to Utrecht on August 17, Van Persie is aware of what he should work on along with his gamers to get their first win on the board.

“We’re going to face FC Utrecht subsequent week in excessive spirits,” Van Persie added.

“With this fashion of taking part in, I can not promise that we’ll win each match, however when it comes to depth and typically additionally high quality, that is soccer as I believe you need to play it. We’ll present that each week.”