NAC's meeting with the second-tier side is one of four last-16 ties still to be played. The match is the Eredivisie side's first competitive fixture since the winter break, and Penders insists they will not underestimate their opponents or let thoughts of Ajax, who await in the next round, distract them. "I do not expect thoughts of the next opponents will have an impact on the game against Telstar," he said in the BN/De Stem newspaper. NAC will have to cope without striker Ali Boussaboun, who picked up an injury in Saturday's friendly Belgian club Sint-Truiden. "That injury is a terrible blow of Ali," said Penders. "For him and for NAC. "In attack it will now be difficult against Telstar." FC Groningen, flying high in third place in the Eredivisie table, also travel to lower-league opposition in the shape of third division Genemuiden. The visitors will go into the game as hot favourites, but their opponents won 9-1 at Dijkse Boys in the last round while Groningen needed penalties to scrape past ADO Den Haag. The winner will travel to FC Utrecht in the last eight. Elsewhere, Achilles 29 face RKC Waalwijk for the right to play with winner of the tie between Sparta Nijkerk and Noordwijkerhout.
