Iliass Bel Hassani and Zakaria Bakkali saw the home game of RKC Waalwijk with Vitesse (1-0 win) from the stands on Saturday evening. According to trainer Joseph Oosting, the duo was kept out of the RKC match selection because of ‘impermissible behaviour’. Bel Hassani seemed to be on the right track after being disciplined twice last year.
“Without going into too much detail about what exactly happened, it is clear that the behavior they have shown is not possible”, Oosting said after the home win in conversation with the General Journal. “I can take a lot, players can go quite far with me. But once it’s done. If you don’t act as a trainer, your authority will be undermined. It’s like with small children, you love them, only once you must punish them.” Without the duo, RKC managed to grab three points, with Michiel Kramer as the match winner.
Oosting cannot yet say whether he will accept the passed players in favor in the run-up to the away match against league-leader Feyenoord in De Kuip next Sunday. “It really depends on how they behave in training. If it goes well, then they will come back. If not, then not. It is really not about football, because we can use them very well,” emphasizes the winning coach.
The fact that the decision of the technical staff to punish Bel Hassani and Bakkali has not been explained to the group of players is not a big problem for Kramer. “Sometimes they have to make such decisions, we have nothing to do with that. We get to see the list of names a day before the game, that’s it. I don’t always have to know everything,” said the attacker. who scored the only goal against Vitesse in the 27th minute.