Excelsior coach Marinus Dijkhuizen is not amused after the VAR action at Ajax – Excelsior in the Johan Cruijff ArenA. The visitors from Kralingen were leading 1-2 when Ajax player Anton Gaaei planted his studs on the ankle of an Excelsior player. The VAR did nothing about this, much to the annoyance of many football fans, and also to the annoyance of Dijkhuizen.
“That is of course 100% red. I don’t know what Mr. Van der Laan (the VAR on duty, ed.) was doing with the VAR, but it is really unprecedented. Ten days ago we saw a red card, pulling on a boy with great intensity,” said Dijkhuizen at ESPN with a hint of cynicism, who did not find the offense for which Excelsior received a red card ten days ago to be serious at all. .
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“If you know a little about football, you will see that he very deliberately places it over the ball: no intention whatsoever to play the ball, full on the ankle. If this happens at big clubs, I think the floodgates will be over and everything will be on fire. Yes, not now. Then it would have been over (then Ajax would never have equalized again, ed.),” the Excelsior coach concluded after the match against Ajax.
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