UEFA Europa League UEFA Europa League
League Stage - 4• 5 Nov 2026

NEC Nijmegen 3–1 Omonia Nicosia

Watch all goals in the app

Goals

Watch all goals in the app

Get the best football highlights experience

Match Recap

Bryan Linssen delivered the sucker punch NEC Nijmegen needed, scoring twice after the break to turn a one-goal deficit into a comfortable Europa League win over Omonia Nicosia. Loïs Diony had given the Cypriot side a 23rd-minute lead, but Linssen leveled on 50 minutes before Clement Bischoff put NEC in front for good on 74. Linssen then added his second just two minutes later to seal the comeback. The result lifts NEC off the foot of the group but leaves them well behind Omonia, who sit 11th on six points with two wins in three, against NEC's one. Neither side has a player among the league's top scorers, with Molde's K. Zachariassen still leading the way on eight. For NEC, it was the response that mattered: trailing, then dismantling Omonia inside half an hour. Watch Linssen's double, including the decisive 76th-minute strike that sent the home crowd into delirium, in the highlights below.

Match Statistics

NEC Nijmegen
VS
Omonia Nicosia
63% Ball Possession 37%
1.56 Expected goals (xG) 0.73
19 Total Shots 6
9 Shots on target 3
7 Shots off target 1
3 Blocked Shots 2
9 Shots inside box 5
10 Shots outside box 1
5 Corner Kicks 2
2 Offsides 1
11 Fouls 12
1 Yellow Cards 0
0 Red Cards 0
2 Goalkeeper Saves 6
596 Total passes 351
522 Accurate passes 258
12 Free Kicks 9

Lineups

NEC Nijmegen
Dick Schreuder 3-4-2-1
VS
Omonia Nicosia
H. Berg 4-2-3-1

Substitutes — NEC Nijmegen

11W. Willumsson 24Deveron Fonville 38Joep Geneste 66Almugera Raouf Mohammed Kabar 34Kevin Kers 42Y. Moslih 12N. Polster 3P. Sandler 14K. Sierhuis 10D. Tadić

Substitutes — Omonia Nicosia

22M. Tankovic 85A. Neophytou 27S. Simič 78Pantelis Michail 96Athos Kounounis 92C. Panagiotis 20L. Brouwers 40Fabiano 90C. Konstantinidis