René Hake is not happy with the arbitration after the lost match against Feyenoord. The coach of Go Ahead Eagles later saw on the images that Gernot Trauner clearly made hands just before the 0-1 was scored by the away team. Hake is cynical towards the VAR.
“If he has not seen it properly, he is simply let down by a number of people who apparently have some difficulty staying awake after nine o’clock,” Hake begins about the moment in the penalty area in conversation with ESPN. ”These are moments where we don’t get ten in a match, it’s a shame that it’s against you. It is incomprehensible that it is not reversed, because then Feyenoord’s goal falls.”
After Feyenoord’s goal, Hake had the feeling that the referee wanted to make up for something. ”It was striking that a number of those half-moments were whistled very quickly in our favor. I had the idea that he had to compensate something.” The trainer emphasizes that the defeat has nothing to do with the referee’s decisions. “Feyenoord has a good team and we put up a fight, but it didn’t work out.”
”I think we had the intention to put pressure on Feyenoord early. We succeeded in this many times in the first half, but we were unable to convert them into big opportunities. Feyenoord also escaped a number of times due to their quality or we were just one step too late. They could quickly move the game from left to right, and then you see yourself in trouble. You have to go far back in phases and then the threat is extremely great in our sixteen.”
