should not have received a red card during the match against Excelsior (2-2), says Mike Verweij. According to the journalist, referee Sander van der Eijk should have sensed the match and taken the seriousness of the violation more into account in his decision.
During the day Kick Off Verweij shows that he was bothered by the Ajax-Excelsior referee. In that match, Steven Bergwijn received a red card after grabbing an Excelsior player in his own sixteen. “That red card that Sander van der Eijk gives… It took them about seven minutes. And Marco van Basten was of course right about that. Not every violation in the penalty area should be a red card. With this violation, everyone would have been happy if he had given the yellow card.”
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Verweij also indicates how unlikely a goal for Excelsior was from that chance. “That boy still had to take the ball, it was not a scoring opportunity. The corner was difficult, the goalkeeper was already coming out, which made the corner even more difficult. It was simply not a red card. Of course Bergwijn should not commit that foul. In the worst case In that case it will be 1-1 and you still have a whole half to win it with eleven against eleven. Only Sander van der Eijk is simply not suitable. Because then you have to stand in front of that image (the VAR screen, ed.). and say: ‘I’ll just give a yellow card’. A top referee really wouldn’t have given a red card here.”
Valentijn Driessen completely agrees with his colleague and noticed a lack of understanding in the ArenA. “I was sitting in the stadium and everyone thought they were going to see whether it was a penalty or not. But it turned out to be the red card. No one really noticed that at all.”
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