Hans Kraay junior looked with surprise at the performance of Timon Wellenreuther against Sparta Rotterdam. Willem II’s goalkeeper did not make a very strong appearance on Saturday evening in the 0-3 lost game in Tilburg and was knocked out of a header that time. Bart Vriends scored twice, after which Emanuel Emegha also contributed on behalf of the Rotterdam team. The keeper rented from Anderlecht was faced with critical words on Sunday morning during Good morning Eredivisie.
After more than fifteen minutes it went wrong for the first time, when Vriends outsmarted Wellenreuther after a turning cross from Bryan Smeets. The center defender only had to go over time to put the opening goal on the board. “Wellenreuther was the rescue of Willem II a bit, because they really had a hard time with the keepers”, Kraay Jr. starts positively about the goalie. “That didn’t go very well last season. Wellenreuther was great, a bit of an ice hockey goalkeeper. I also praised him a few times. He scored so terribly well. That Neuer-like ice hockey goalkeeper.”
Sparta’s second goal also came from Vriends, who headed in from a corner from Sven Mijnans. Ten minutes before the end, Wellenreuther seemed to doubt the 0-3, when Emegha grazed a turning cross from Vito van Crooij. “What he shows in the air…”, continues Kraay Jr. “It was really terrible, all three goals. As if he is going off the diving board. What is he doing there? Come, don’t come. Everything is half We have so many bad goalkeepers with high balls.”
Patrick Lodewijks, who also took part in the football talk show, partly defends Willem II’s goalkeeper. “Yes, what is guilt?” said the former goalkeeper of Feyenoord, FC Groningen and PSV. “I think the second goal against is a result of the first: it just didn’t go quite well, I’ll let the defenders solve it for a while. He is a bit far back. But what is not talked about, the first and the third goal come from great crosses. Tight, just behind the defense. It’s very difficult to get there. When a ball like that goes to the far post, you can ‘buy’ yourself a little more time.”