Ibrahim Afellay is anything but impressed by Markus Schubert. The goalkeeper made the transfer from Schalke 04 to Vitesse in the summer free of transfer and immediately conquered a base place as Remko Pasveer’s successor. According to Afellay, Schubert has not yet shown that he is a good goalkeeper. On Saturday he was surprised in the second minute by a turning corner against Fortuna Sittard (1-1), who sailed in in one go.
“Surely we can conclude that the Vitesse keeper can’t do anything about it?” Afellay wonders with a laugh. Studio Football. “In other matches he also goes with his feet to the corner, he wants to get the ball out of the intersection with his leg…” Schubert himself said afterwards that he was disappointed with the goal. “I’m not saying it’s a goalkeeper’s mistake, but I’m saying that I want to stop such a ball in any case,” said the keeper. “It’s a corner. It was very busy at the first post. There were a lot of people in front of me. Then he shoots the ball into the intersection on the long side.”
Mats Seuntjens’ goal can be seen from minute 0:10.
According to Pierre van Hooijdonk, however, there is a goalkeeper error. “A corner that goes in in one go is actually always a goalkeeper’s mistake. If you just stand normally, then you have the ball,” the former attacker judges in the talk show. Nevertheless, he hands out Seuntjen’s compliments for the beautiful goal. “The speed is great. He kicks it so hard with the inside rub. Afterwards he said he did it deliberately, and I think that’s true.” Former Vitesse midfielder Theo Janssen is also complimentary towards the attacker of Fortuna.
“He falls very high in. What Fortuna did smartly was to put a lot of people at the first post, so that the keeper has the feeling that he has to go there,” says Janssen. “But Seuntjens puts him in fantastically, you know. These are difficult balls to put in. Try this in training. If you try it ten times in training, maybe one will fall in.”